La Via Campesina Mexico
La Via Campesina Mexico is building food sovereignty in Mexico by connecting the rich histories of peasant organizing and Indigenous resistance among the country’s diverse communities.
La Via Campesina Mexico – the Mexican arm of the global peasant movement La Via Campesina – works with peasants and Indigenous Peoples across Mexico to strengthen alliances between them, particularly around promotion of land and territorial rights, food sovereignty, and climate and ecological justice.
A major focus of La Via Campesina Mexico’s movement building work has been the formation of an Agroecological National Network to defend threatened lands, highlighting agroecology as a path for attaining food sovereignty while mitigating climate change. It is also involved in resistance to mining and other megaprojects.
In 2022, La Via Campesina Mexico celebrated the launch of IALA Mexico, an agroecology school providing technical training and political formation by and for Mexico’s Indigenous and peasant movements. Part of a growing network of agroecology schools across the Americas and globally, IALA Mexico is unique in its decentralized and “territorialized” design that includes branches throughout different parts of the country.
