The First World Social Forum which is taking place in Spain has started with a “mística”, a ritual similar to a pagan mass, celebrated by indigenous farmers. Several personalities, representatives of political and university institutions which support the WFAR, have inaugurated the event. The “Pascual Carrión” World Forum for Agrarian Reform, part of the World Social Forum of Porto Alegre, has begun. With the theme “For a World without famine: another agriculture. Agrarian Reform, now!” over 500 participants will study why an agrarian reform on a global level is necessary. Numerous indigenous people from all over the world have celebrated a “mística”, a pagan ritual similar to a mass, in which they paid tribute to the land and its fruits. During this representation, the indigenous people symbolise how international institutions, such as the World Bank, the World Trade Organisation and the company Monsanto, take their land and seeds away from the farmers. Finally, with a call to “occupy, resist, produce”, the farmers recuperate what belonged to them. Miguel Rosetto, Minister of State for Agrarian Development in Brasil; Enrique Barón, ex-President of the European Parliament; Francisco Amarillo, General Director of Rural Development of the Ministry of Agriculture, Fishery and Food (Spain); Vicent Garcés, Coordinator of the International Commitee Promotor of the WFAR; and Javier Sanz, Rector of the Politecnic University of Valencia (Spain), have participated in the formation and inauguration of the WFAR. “Cronic famine affects over 800 million people in the world”, Vicent Garcés has assured, for which “the great challenges of the world demand the reform of management processes of natural resources; the reform must guarantee the right to the land, which, together with the right to food, is a fundamental right of Humanity”. Miguel Rosetto has reminded us that although Brasil has become one of the greatest producers and exporters, the poverty and violence in its cities has increased. The minister has declared, “The Brasilian rural environment definitely needs peace, production and social justice.” The agrarian reform, Rossetto says, must guarantee “fair prices and environmental sustainability.” To achieve these goals, he has underlined that “we must say no to the neo-liberal agenda,” which is “an agenda of the past, of which there are too many in the negotiations with MERCOSUR and the European Union.” The neo-liberal agenda responds to the interests of big companies. “Neo-liberalism produced great lies,” Lula’s minister has stated; he defends an agenda “for peace, justice and solidarity.” “The left,” he has concluded, “continues alive and fighting for justice, solidarity and the rights of access the land and for agrarian reform”.