Seeds of resistance

La Vía Campesina and its struggle against seed patents La Via Campesina is an international movement which brings together millions of peasants, small and medium-size farmers, landless people, women farmers, indigenous people, migrants and agricultural workers from around the world in the struggle for food sovereignty as a way to promote social justice and dignity. In its opposition to corporate driven agriculture and transnational companies, the reivindication of the right to peasant seeds has signified a strong fight against PATENTS. This space in Debconf12 is seen by young people of the peasant movement in Central America as an opportunity to interchange experiences with the participants of the conference, around an issue that concerns all those involved in the building of collaborative models of life, the mechanisms of privatization of knowledge and culture.