The Cochabamba Declaration
Last Friday, October 12, indigenous peoples from all over South America gathered in Bolivia to celebrate the adoption last month by the United Nations of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples - a document that has been in the making for more than two decades. Today, on World Food Day, we present the
translated text of the Cochabamba Declaration signed in Bolivia on Friday. The declaration expresses the belief that the UN document is essential for the survival of indigenous cultures and in securing access to natural resources to ensure food sovereignty.
Specifically, the Cochabamba Declaration calls on states: to make food sovereignty the basis of national sovereignty where culture and place are respected and production and consumption are in balance; to reject plans for biofuel development that represent a risk to food security; and to refuse the use of transgenic seeds which threaten biodiversity safeguarded through the ages by indigenous peoples.
Four countries voted against the UN Declaration: Canada, the United States, Australia and New Zealand.
This text was translated by Stuart Phil Cournoyer in Managua, Nicaragua.
Original Spanish Text
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