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Via Campesina (from Spanish la vía campesina, the campesino way, or the Peasants' Way) is an international peasant's movement which coordinates peasant organizations of small and middle-scale farmers, agricultural workers, landless people, rural women, and indigenous communities from Asia, Africa, America, and Europe. It is a coalition of over 150 organizations, advocating family-farm-based sustainable agriculture and was the group that first coined the term "food sovereignty".[1] Food sovereignty refers to the right of peoples to control and define their own food systems, and in strong opposition to the commodified global food system.