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About Jean Thévenot

Jean is a young farmer producing organic seedlings in the Basque Country, working with a wide range of varieties of veggies, flowers and aromatics using local seeds for gardeners and producers. He belongs to Confédération Paysanne in France and is active in the international network La Via Campesina (200 millions + farmers!). Jean works on various issues from labour conditions in european agriculture to defence of LGBTQIA+ rights, as well as the promotion of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Peasants and Other People Working in Rural Areas (UNDROP). Peasant-based agroecology in a food sovereignty framework is the best way towards the future!

Food • 25.02.2025

Farmers of La Via Campesina: we globalise struggles and hope!

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By: The degrowth.info editorial team, Jean Thévenot

degrowth.info speaks to small-scale farmer Jean Thévenot about EU farming and La Via Campesina's work at the international level.