Халықаралық шаруалар ұйымы: Тағамдық тәуелсіздік және ауыл шаруашылығы қозғалысы

International agricultural organization

La Vía Campesina (from lang es, meaning the peasant way) is an international farmers organization founded in 1993 in Mons, Belgium, formed by 182 organisations in 81 countries,

La Via Campesina advocates for family farm based sustainable agriculture, and was the group that coined the term "food sovereignty".

Starting in the 1980s governments were intervening less in the rural countryside, which weakened corporate control over peasants' organizations while making a living in agriculture become more difficult. As a result, national peasant groups began to form ties with transnational organizations, starting in Latin America and then on a global scale. In Europe, Via Campisina members participated the 2024 "tractorada" farm protests, when agricultural vehicles blocked main roads in Western Europe it briefly allied with COPA COGECA which they claim represent major producers and suppliers of low cost, widely sourced food. Such organizations which they claim may be linked or financed by far right groups since they also advocate less official interference in environmental and social areas such as worker protection.

La Vía Campesina is a grassroots movement, with activism at the local and national level. Members come from 81 countries, organised into 9 regions.

Representatives from each region meet at International Conferences roughly every four years. Past meetings were held in Mons in 1993, Tlaxcala City in 1996, Bangalore in 2000, São Paulo in 2004, Maputo in 2008, Jakarta in 2013, and Derio in 2017. The international secretariat changes its central location every 4 years based on the decision made at the International Conference. Past locations were Belgium (19931996), Honduras (19972004), Indonesia (20052013) and Harare (20132021). The current General Coordinator is Morgan Ody, a vegetable producer from Bretagne, France, member of La Confédération paysanne and European Coordination Via Campesina (ECVC).

Food sovereignty differs from food security. Food security was defined as "physical, social, and economic access to sufficient, safe, and nutritious food at all times to meet [the population's] dietary and food preferences for an active and healthy life" by D. Moyo at the American Society of International Law annual meeting in 2007. Food security is more focused on the provision of food for all by whatever means necessary, whether by local production or global imports. As a result, economic policies concerned with food security typically emphasize industrial farming that can produce more food cheaper.

Friedmann defines a food regime as a “rule governed structure of production and consumption of food on a world scale”. For example, US corporations have control over food production by subcontracting smaller farmers, which allows them to participate and profit without taking on the risks of farming, such as weather and disease. Food regimes are the result of “political struggles among contending social groups” for control over how food production is framed and conceptualized, according to McMichael. The corporate food regime has existed for only the last 100 years, as compared to the millennia prior to industrialization and the Green Revolution.