Articles and Reports of Interest

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Background on the campesino movement

1. Annette Aurelie Desmarais, "The WTO... will meet somewhere, sometime. And we will be there", The North-South Institute (Ottawa, Canada), Sept. 2003. [English]

2. La Via Campesina: Un Movimiento en Moviemento, Saturnino M. Borras, Jr., The Transnational Institute., Dec. 2004. [Spanish]

3. Peter Rosset, "Food Sovereignty: Global Rallying Cry of Farmer Movements", Food First Backgrounder, Fall 2003. [English]

WTO and Agriculture

1. WTO Agreement on Agriculture: A Decade of Dumping, Institute of Agriculture and Trade Policy, February 2005.[English]

Statements of Via Campesina

1. The Domination of Capital Over Agriculture, Joao Pedro Stedile [English]

2. Declaration of the IV Conference of Via Campesina (2004) [English]

3. Via Campesina leaders discuss the importance of their IV Conference (2004) [English]

4. Historia de Via Campesina [Espanol]

5. On genetically modified organisms (GMOs) [English]

6. Via Campesina: 11 Anos de Lucha [Espanol]

7. Bove on GMOs [Espanol]

8. Background on Food Sovereignty [English]