17 July 2023: Morgan Ody, the General Coordinator of La Via Campesina and a small-scale vegetable farmer from Brittany France, who is a member of the ECVC and the French Peasant Union Confederation Paysanne delivers a fiery speech at a Conference in the European Parliament held parallel to the EU-CELAC summit. She calls out the ill-effects of Free Trade Agreements, colonial policies and unilateral sanctions that has exacerbated an unprecedented food crises around the world. “Food must not be used as weapons for geo-political and trade wars”, she says. “As peasants we have concrete proposals on how to conduct international trade based on the principles of food sovereignty, cooperation and solidarity”.