As women, men, elders and youth, peasants, indigenous people, landless laborers, pastoralists and other rural peoples, we are struggling to defend and to recover our land and territories in order to preserve our way of life, our communities, and our culture. The agroecological peasant agriculture we practice is a basic building block in the construction of Food Sovereignty and is the first line in our defense of Mother Earth.

We are committed to producing food for people: the people of our communities, the peoples of our nations — rather than biomass for cellulose or agrofuels, or for exports to other countries. The indigenous people among us, and all of our rural traditions and cultures, teach respect for Mother Earth, and we commit to recovering our ancestral farming knowledge and adopting elements of Agroecology (which infact is largely derived from our accumulated knowledge) so that we may produce in harmony with, and take good care of, our Mother Earth.