(en) Brazil, Peasants and Food Sovereignty. Organic for the wealthy and GMOs and pesticides for the poor (pt)

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