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Final
Document of the Iguazú Counter Conference
on the Impacts of Soya and Monocultures
ITEPA (Technological and Educational Institute for Agrarian Reform)
San Miguel de Iguazú, Brazil, 16 to 18 March 2005.
We resolve:
To struggle and mobilise, jointly with other movements and organisations,
against the present model of development, agro exports and the proliferation
of transgenic crops, which tragically affect the peoples of South
America, which attack the environment and peasant societies through
monocultures.
To denounce the false concept of sustainable soya mono crops, officially
promoted at the First Round Table Conference on Sustainable Soy, held
at Foz do Iguazú, in the interests of the North and of the
agribusinesses, with the scandalous support of some large national
and international NGOs.
We assert that, sustainability and monoculture are fundamentally irreconcilable,
as are the interests of peasant societies and agribusiness.
To denounce the relationship between agro businesses and hydro businesses,
that entrenches the privatisation of water supplies and destroying
the aquifers of Latin America.
To defend water and a universal right and a common good, in opposition
to the logic of transitional corporations, who view it as a mere commodity.
To accuse the agribusinesses as responsible for the mercantilisation
of life and of land;
To denounce the governments for a failure to pursue policies of agrarian
reform;
To defend the cultures, territories and traditional economies of indigenous
peoples and peasants, while building unity with urban movements.
Encourage and disseminate the agro ecological experience of peasant
societies, not merely as alternative modes of cultivation, production
and consumption, but as a radical, alternative vision of life and
the world, transforming the relationship between nature and human
beings.
Note from the translator
Among the signataries
VIA CAMPESINA
BRASIL, PARAGUAY Y ARGENTINA
GRUPO DE REFLEXION RURAL - ARGENTINA
COORDINADORA ANTITRANSGENICOS DEL URUGUAY
More signatures to follow in the next few days when we confirm the list of participants to the meeting
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