Esther Vivas

Do the rich and poor eat the same? Do our incomes determine our diet? Today, who is overweight?

“Resisting is pointless,” we hear endlessly repeated. “So many years of protest but the crisis continues, why bother?” insist others, inoculating us with apathy and resignation. “Protests could lead to something that’s even worse,” whispers the machinery of fear.

Via Campesina is the world’s foremost international movement of small farmers. It promotes the right of all peoples to food sovereignty.

How do we change the world?

The tragedy of hunger again becomes current news from the food emergency in the Horn of Africa, but famines are a silent daily reality.