page_title: Via Campesina
section_title: Organization
hierarchical_section_title: Via Campesina / Organization
caption_attribution_description: Português: Nairóbi (Quênia) - Mulheres da Via Campesina, organização internacional da qual o Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem-Terra (MST) faz parte, durante oficina no 7º Fórum Social Mundial.
context_page_description: La Vía Campesina is an international farmers organization founded in 1993 in Mons, Belgium, formed by 182 organisations in 81 countries, and describing itself as "an international movement which coordinates peasant organizations of small and middle-scale producers, agricultural workers, rural women, and indigenous communities from Asia, Africa, America, and Europe".
  Via Campesina advocates for family-farm-based sustainable agriculture, and was the group that coined the term "food sovereignty". La Vía Campesina carries out campaigns to defend farmer's right to seeds, to stop violence against women, for agrarian reform, and generally for the recognition of the rights of peasants.
context_section_description: La Vía Campesina is a grassroots movement, with activism at the local and national level. Members come from 81 countries, organised into 9 regions. The International Coordinating Committee is represented by one man and one woman per region and one youth per continent, each elected by their respective region's member organisations. With about 182 local and national organisations as part of the movement, La Via Campesina represents an estimated 200 million farmers around the world.
  According to Menser (2008), La Via Campesina is an example of the success and expansion of transnational movements in regards to participatory democracy due to its organization model and adaptation to ensure fair representation.
caption: Women member of Via Campesina during the 7th World Social Forum (Nairobi, 2007)
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