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Diagnosis of the problem 1. All countries are pushing to policies, plans and programs for farmers who produce raw materials for bio-ethanol (soy, corn, palm and sugar cane so that governments are using strategies such as fertilizers and to deliver corn, as a state policy that seeks to involve farmers in the mass planting of corn. 2. The massive rural migration to cities, with the consequent accumulation of land in the hands of the landowners. 3. As part of the PPP, IRSA megaprojects are being promoted in ecoregions such as the Mesoamerican Biological Corridor and bioceanic. 4. In all our countries, multinational corporations do not pay any taxes. 5. In some countries such as Paraguay, 95% of soybeans produced is transgenic, meaning that we no longer have control

of much of what we eat is either non-transgenic 6. The major environmental conservation organizations such as WWF, TNC or other, are buying large tracts of our territories, as well as other agencies such as the European Cooperation, USAID, UNESCO, UNICEF is supporting or creating protected areas. In both cases the aim is to seize the natural resources of our territories, such as oil, uranium gas, etc. 7. In many countries where the farmers had managed to establish large cooperatives, most of these were forced to seize their land to banks so that many became debtors to the state and the private bank, which caused the loss of the land they had obtained with great sacrifice. 8. Today, the empire has already distributed about what we produce in our territories. 9. It is important to highlight the case of Haiti, which remains the most impoverished people of America, 80% of its food is imported from the United States. Also through the textile industry was the condemned into the workforce on most exploited in the region. It beggars belief that a country that does not produce food for people having to produce food for cars. 10. Maquilizacion of our countries (the only option for the vast majority of peasants migrating to cities to work in the maquiladoras, where they undergo any type of operation), this greatly impacts on agricultural production, hence no place in our country Today virtually imported most products we consume. 11. Massive migration to the United States and Europe. 12. Displacement of communities to the implementation of mega resorts. 13. In all our countries is intensifying the pressure and aggression of multinationals to exploit mining, hydroelectric projects and dams, so every day is intensifying conflicts over who controls the water. 14. Peru is being implemented in a policy to eradicate the production and consumption of coca leaf used by ancient indigenous peoples, (we are not responsible in the United States like cocaine). 15. Criminalization of our processes Resistance and Struggle Given all this our people are resisting offensive 1. Many communities are resisting occupation and mining companies, so that in some cases has stopped operating them. 2. There are networks such as Via Campesina processes that drive this fight for the protection and recovery of seed landraces. 3. In many communities in our countries and peoples are mobilizing, networking and discussion of resistance. 4. It is important to the experience of India, where the peasants were not granted the right to land, but also social rights, is an important food-producing reserves. 5. In Brazil have developed many activities and 6. Direct action, occupations of land or recover the land that is in the hands of landowners. 7. Awareness Campaigns 8. Rural fairs, to eliminate the middleman. 9. Fair trade networks 10. Experience from Venezuela (with their missions, such as the Mission food, Zamora Mission, Mission Bolivancara). Proposals 1. We need to save resources 2. Promoting processes of exchange and barter, reciprocity, solidarity, cooperation, fair trade, rescue symbologies call that unite us. 3. Land 4. Fight for our lands 5. Mapping the real issues. 6. Mapping of the resistance or alternative initiatives.