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 17 Απριλίου: "Παγκόσμια ημέρα του Αγώνα των αγροτών"

17 April : Day of Peasant's Struggle

April 17: More than one hundred actions in the world to support peasant agriculture

17 Απριλίου: Πάνω από 100 δράσεις παγκοσμίως για την υποστήριξη την αγροτική καλλιέργεια
La Via Campesina Press Release (Jakarta, April 16, 2011) – Tomorrow, April 17, the world will celebrate the International Day of Peasant Struggle. More than one hundred different events are taking place (See full list here) in every corner of the world, in capitals cities, towns and small villages, in defence of peasant agriculture and food sovereignty. This date commemorates the 1996 assassination in Eldorado dos Carajás, Brazil, of 19 innocent peasants who were struggling for land and defending peasant and small farmer food production. This year we reaffirm the need to get rid of the corporate food system, and our belief that peasant agriculture can feed the world. The current food crisis shows that the dominant corporate food system has failed and that the promises of the 1996 World Food Summit, echoed by the Millennium Development Goal of reducing hunger by 2015, will not be fulfilled. On the contrary, the number of hungry has increased from 800 million in 1996 to more then 1,000 million at the moment.
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