Peasant Movements Bring Six Demands to COP31, Reject Carbon Markets
COP 31 Press Conferences • United NationsNovember 12, 2026
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La Via Campesina used a COP31 press conference on Nov. 12, 2026, to put a concrete agenda on the table: debt relief, water rights, agrarian reform and public money for agroecology. Speakers from Nepal, South Africa, Zimbabwe, Brazil and Puerto Rico said El Niño is deepening hunger and displacement among small-scale food producers. They also argued that the market-based fixes on display at COP31 are part of the problem.
- Six demands for COP31: debt relief, water rights, agrarian reform, agroecology funding, market regulation and heat protections
- Carbon markets rejected as "false solutions" pushed onto the Global South
- El Niño called a crisis "amplifier," with drought hitting more than 350,000 Honduran small producers
- "Multilateralism has failed," a Brazilian dam-affected communities leader told reporters
- Farmer-led strategy offered: seed saving, water harvesting, land tenure and public energy control
The basics: La Via Campesina is an international movement of peasants and small-scale food producers. Its spokespeople briefed press at COP31, the United Nations climate summit, in a session moderated by Marie of Action Against Hunger.
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