Joseph "José" Bové is a French farmer, labor leader and alter-globalization activist, and spokesman for Via Campesina. He was one of the twelve official candidates in the 2007 French presidential election. He served in the European Parliament as a member of the European Green Party in the 2009–2014 and 2014–2019.
Bové in 2009
José Bové (Paris, May 2005)
José Bové at an anti-GMO protest in March 2006
15 April 2007 electoral meeting in Paris
La Vía Campesina is an international farmers organization founded in 1993 in Mons, Belgium, formed by 182 organisations in 81 countries, and describing itself as "an international movement which coordinates peasant organizations of small and middle-scale producers, agricultural workers, rural women, and indigenous communities from Asia, Africa, America, and Europe".
Women member of Via Campesina during the 7th World Social Forum (Nairobi, 2007)