National Directorate of MPA ---- The order of agriculture since the financial logic is a
true international program of mass destruction, as Jean Ziegler denounces "the annual
destruction of tens of millions of men, women and children from hunger is the scandal of
the century" (Zingler, 2013) . the same author describes how U.S. imperialism and its
mercenary organizations (WTO, IMF and WB) does not recognize the right to food as a human
right. ---- In Brazil this project materializes in the class alliance between the
landowner late, national and transnational corporations, the media, the state and banks.
This pact is classes that characterizes what we call agribusiness. ---- The onslaught of
agribusiness in Brazil has made us the largest consumer of pesticides in the world,
increased our dependence on mineral fertilizers, increased land concentration; liberalized
transgenics that imposes Brazilian agriculture as a technology totalitarian and configures
the greatest threat to biodiversity, and has produced the most varied changes in Brazilian
legislation seeking hegemony of a profit-centered agriculture.
The land, water, biodiversity and mineral resources of the territories of traditional
peoples and peasants are seen as the last obstacles to overcome.
It is against this historical court that peasants make the class struggle by a Peasant
Plan and Food Sovereignty.
The Peasant Plan is understood by the MPA as "a political project for the development of
the field, which meets the demands of immediate concrete peasantry to their general
interests, and the strategy to lead the peasantry to fulfill major role in the structural
transformation of Brazilian society . "
The central aspect of this project is Food Sovereignty, understood by the Via Campesina as
"the right of peoples to define their own policies and strategies for the sustainable
production, distribution and consumption of food that guarantee the right to food for the
entire population, based on small and average production, respecting their own cultures
and the diversity of peasant production, marketing and management, in which the woman
plays a key role. "
The Struggle for Food Sovereignty is articulated on two axes: the first one that comes
directly from the struggles for access to land, natural resources, production of healthy
food, agroecology and peasant culture, and a second with respect to the construction of
policies State to strengthen peasant forms of production as land reform, institutional
markets, inventory policies, technical assistance and rural extension, education, law and
others.
Important role in the construction of the building is Food Sovereignty Sovereignty Hydro.
The emblematic case is the Brazilian semiarid region where water has become element of
disputes between peasants, society in general versus large hydroelectric projects and
irrigation.
In the region of the S?o Francisco Valley the situation is contrasting. There is one
company that uses water for irrigation and production of commodities equivalent to
consumption of 600 000 people. Across the population pays exorbitant fees that subsidize
the overconsumption, for every $ 100.00 paid by households the company pays only U.S. $
1.12 for the same amount of water consumed.
In this region a can of 20 liters of water costs $ 2.50, payable to R $ 1,000.00 for a
water truck water 8000 liters. In Sento S? families due to shortsightedness water burned
the dirty clothes.
The waters of the Old Chico attracted the world's largest transnational GMO, Monsanto who
settled in Petrolina-PE. This company is internationally considered the greatest threat to
biodiversity and food sovereignty of the people.
Another aspect in the struggle for food sovereignty are the guarantee of territorial
rights. In the S?o Francisco Valley in particular, peasants and traditional peoples has
suffered incisive attacks by agribusinesses, mining and hydroelectric.
Taking again Zingler, it proposes to farmers worldwide causing "cracks in the current
order of the world brutally crushing people" .
The days of October for Food Sovereignty enroll in this context.
Fonte:
http://www.mpabrasil.org.br/noticias/camponeses-e-soberania-alimentar-organicos-para-os-ricos-transgenicos-e-agrotoxicos-para-os
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