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		<title>Landing Page</title>
				
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		<description>“If all we do is fight against what we don’t want, we learn to love the fight and have nothing left for our vision but longing. But longing isn’t good enough. We must live into the vision by creating it and defending it. We must ‘Build the New’ as a way to ‘Stop the Bad’ —we must be both visionary and oppositional. This doesn’t mean we don’t resist, but we have to organize ourselves into applying our labor to meet our needs rooted in our cultures and visions” 
- Movement Generation

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		<title>Overview</title>
				
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		<description>Overview
Our current racial capitalist system is powered by an extractive energy model - one that sacrifices the health and wellbeing of people and ecosystems for the sake of profit and growth. Cheap nonrenewable energy and minerals, that took millions of years to form, have been fueling the economy of growth for the past 150 years and their extraction is becoming exponentially more destructive. The global demand for energy continues to grow at around 2% annually and all forms of energy use are growing together: gas, coal, oil, nuclear and renewables.&#38;nbsp;
While the awareness around planetary destruction caused by fossil fuels has grown, many solutions do not adequately address the systemic causes for the energy crisis, and are simply looking for alternative - seemingly “greener” - ways to fuel capitalism. Reversing this growth and expansion of the energy sector is an urgent and essential step in building an alternative energy system. Climate and environmental justice groups have been calling for a shift from a corporate centralized energy system to one that is localized - produced, owned and governed by communities. Energy justice calls to end market-based mechanisms that impair efforts to truly end fossil fuel pollution disproportionately affecting low income and communities of color, and to stop false solutions that seek corporate industrialized “green” alternatives instead of systemic change of the energy system. Working towards an alternative energy system comes in tandem with transforming the economy. We must step away from the fuel-dependent extractivist and growth-based system we currently live in towards a localized, community-driven, and regenerative one (read more about that on our Economy page). Without a comprehensive plan to transform how and why we use fuel and stepping away from extractivist economy, no alternative methods of energy production and distribution would provide the kind of transformation communities and the planet require. Thus, the alternatives proposed in this section are rooted in a collective and systemic overhaul of how dependent capitalist lifestyles are on a constant consumption of energy (whether it is “renewable” or fossil fuel-based).&#38;nbsp; </description>
		
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		<title>Way Forward</title>
				
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		<description>Way ForwardWay forward 1:&#38;nbsp;Energy Democracy

As defined by Climate Justice Alliance, “Energy Democracy frames the international struggle of working people, low-income communities, Asian and Pacific Islander, Black, Brown, and Indigenous nations and their communities to take control of energy resources from the energy establishment and use those resources to empower their communities literally (by providing energy), economically, and politically. It means bringing energy resources under public or community ownership and/or governance.” 

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"Democracy matters" by Louis George 2011 is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0
Organizations leading the way in Energy Democracy:&#38;nbsp;

Climate Justice Alliance’s Energy Democracy working group (EnDEM)The Our Power Plan: Charting a Path to Climate Justice - The plan urges federal and state decision-makers to assure that frontline environmental justice communities and workers be primary stakeholders in the implementation process of the Clean Power Plan
Our Power &#124; Black Mesa Water Coalition [Short Film]


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"Uprose" by 350.org is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 - 2017

UPROSEUprose works in the interest of a Just Transition, a move away from the extraction economy and towards climate solutions that put frontline communities in positions of leadership.Sunset Park Solar is New York City’s first community solar project owned and operated by a cooperative for the benefit of local residents and businesses. It is a 685 kilowatt solar project that will be built on the Brooklyn Army Terminal rooftop.
 
Institute for Local Self-RelianceILSR provides technical assistance to communities about local solutions for sustainable community development in areas such as banking, broadband, energy, and waste through local purchasing.Community Power Interactive ToolkitBeyond Sharing: How Communities Can Take Ownership of Renewable PowerLocal Energy Rules [Podcast Series]Community Power Map
ESKOM Research Reference Group: Achieving a Just Transition for South Africa. Alternative Information and Development Centre (AIDC), Trade Unions for Energy Democracy (TUED), and South Africa's National Union of Metalworkers (NUMSA), Transnational Institute (TNI) and National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) are developing a road map to establish a new public electricity system based on a progressive energy transition and restructuring of Eskom, the South Africa’s state-owned power company. What Is Energy Democracy? Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung
Instituto de Ecología Política (IEP) / Institute of Political Ecology (IPE) - ChileIEP’s work has been carried out through education for sustainability, research, strengthening civil society, education and reporting campaigns, and legal actions in the defense of the environment and people; through the creation of strategic alliances and the development of public policies the right to live in a healthy environment can be guaranteed.&#38;nbsp;Camino Solar: An initiative by IEP to promote citizen participation in the generation of photovoltaic energy, in order to contribute to the decentralization and democratization of the transition towards an energy model based on renewable energies. [Video]
Centre for Environment and Energy Development - India
CEED is a solution-driven organization that works towards creating inspiring solutions to maintain a healthy, clean and sustainable environment
100% Renewable Energy (RE) Bihar - A Guide MapCEED decentralized renewable energy [Video]
More Resources on&#38;nbsp;Energy Democracy
Books, Articles, and Reports&#38;nbsp;
Energy Democracy: Advancing Equity in Clean Energy Solutions, edited by Denise Fairchild, Al Weinrub“Energy Democracy: Community-Led Solutions – Three Case Studies” by Center for Social InclusionTracing the emerging energy transitions in the Global North and the Global South - Authors: Ortzi Akizu, Leire Urkidi, Gorka Bueno, Rosa Lago, Iñaki Barcena, Martin Mantxo, Izaro Basurko, Jose Manuel Lopez-GuedeDemocratizing Energy to Counter the Climate Catastrophe, Resilience.orgPotencial Cooperativas ERNC en América Latina - Instituto de Ecología Política (IEP) [Paper, ES]Principals of Energy DemocracySeminario propone potenciar cooperativas de energía en Latinoamérica - Instituto de Ecología Política (IEP) [Article, ES]Towards Energy Democracy, TNIThe Future is Public: Democratic Ownership of Public Services, TNIA renewable energy model based on participation, collective ownership and gender equity, TNIHundreds of Thousands Are Without Power Thanks to PG&#38;amp;E. This Shows Why We Need Public Ownership, In These TimesEnergy Democracy: Redistributing Power to the People Through Renewable TransformationThe Energy Democracy Flipbook, curated by Emerald Cities CollaborativeCampaigns &#38;amp; Manifestos:
Utility Justice Campaign (California-based campaign for a safe, reliable, community-and-worker-owned energy system)The PG&#38;amp;E Bailout and What It Means for You, Utility Justice Campaign (California)Leap Manifesto: A Call for Canada Based on Caring for the Earth and One AnotherWebsites:
Energy DemocracyThe Just Community Energy Transition ProjectVideos and Webinars:
Towards Energy Democracy, TNIWildfires, Shutoffs, And A Just Transition, Movement GenerationLife After Mining, Yes to Life, No to Mining
Way forward 2:&#38;nbsp;Renewable Energy&#38;nbsp;While renewable energy has been rapidly growing in popularity as the only viable alternative source of energy for a sustainable future, conversations around renewable energy tend to leave an impression that it can fully substitute our current reliance on fossil fuels. But that is neither possible (due to physical and technical obstacles of renewable energy production) nor sustainable (as producing renewable energy still requires non-renewable resources, such as minerals). A just and equitable energy transition for the people and the planet, requires us to think beyond the realm of industrial capitalism, as no “planet-friendly” energy system can sustain the current need for exponential growth. The implementation of and advocacy for renewable energy by organizations presented in this section goes in tandem with the principles of Energy Democracy highlighted in the first Solution. 
Organizations &#38;amp; campaigns leading the way in Renewable Energy:
Sacred Earth Solar Sacred Earth Solar empowers front line Indigenous communities in Canada with renewable energy.Piitapan Solar Project - a 20.8kW renewable energy installation in Little Buffalo that powers the community health centre launched by Sacred Earth Solar in 2015. The 80-panel solar project has created more green jobs and reduced the community’s reliance on fossil fuels.Sacred Earth Solar - Protecting Land is Protecting Women Video
Post Carbon InstitutePost Carbon Institute’s work in relation to Energy focuses on growing a collective understanding of our energy reality, and the need for both conservation and appropriate, community-centric renewable energy.Our Renewable Future

	
Green New Deal
The Green New Deal is a congressional resolution that lays out a grand plan for tackling climate change, calling for state- based solutions. While throughout each sector presented by Climate Resource Hub, we highly encourage to step away from state-based solution, due to complexity of the global energy network, some level of state intervention is required to not only leave fossil fuels in the ground and halt any further expansion, but also to lift up highly resource intensive alternative energy projects.
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The GND as submitted to US House of RepresentativesClimate Justice Alliance &#38;amp; The Green New Deal: A Green New Deal Must Be Rooted in a Just Transition for Workers and Communities most impacted by Climate ChangeIndigenous Environmental Network responded to the Green New Deal framework by highlighting that any GND Must be rooted in the Indigenous Principles of Just Transition&#38;nbsp;IEN’s response to the GND resolution that voices concerns around how it leaves incentives by industries and governments to continue causing harm to Indigenous communities
8th Fire Solar8th Fire Solar is building a better future for our Native American communities by creating and assembling a sustainable and renewable energy product: solar thermal panels.


Solar BearSolar Bear is the only Native American owned full service solar installation company in the state of Minnesota that builds renewable energy projects for the future generations of Turtle Island and Mother Earth.

Kara SolarKara Solar is a solar-powered river transportation, energy, and community enterprise initiative in the Ecuadorian Amazon. This sort of initiative is important as it strengthens indigenous sovereignty and land rights, thereby funding these types of projects enhances the resiliency of the Amazonia rainforest and lowers dependency on fossil fuels in that region.Conceived in a dream, new solar canoe will serve Amazon tribe Here comes the sun canoe, as Amazonians take on Big Oil
More Renewable Energy Resources:&#38;nbsp;
Books, Articles, and Reports
Resilience.org, Energy SectionPower for the People: Delivering on the Promise of Decentralized, Community-Controlled Renewable Energy Access, WEDOOrdinary Citizens Help Drive Spread of Solar Power in Chile - Inter Press ServiceAnother Energy Is Possible, Heinrich Boll FoundationOur Power: Achieving a Just Energy Transition for South Africa, AIDC, TNI, TUEDCampaigns:&#38;nbsp;
NY RenewsVideos:
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		<title>Who's In The Way</title>
				
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		<description>Who’s In The WayObstacle 1:
Fossil fuel Industry

The Fossil fuel industry is the bedrock of capitalism. Big Oil companies have known about the destruction that burning fossil fuels wrecks on the planet for decades, but hid the truth for as long as possible. Now, that the planetary devastation caused by fossil fuels has become common knowledge, the energy sector continues to act despite that truth because they can. Transitioning away from fossil fuels requires a fundamental change in society, so the global political forces that are comfortable within the capitalist status quo are letting the fossil fuel industry continue the planetary destruction, while quickly and effectively enriching themselves and those who allow the extraction to continue. Analysis by Oil Change International demonstrated that G20 countries spend $444 billion per year in subsidies to oil, gas, and coal production - government backing of the fossil fuel sector around the world is one the main reason the industry survives to this day. Keeping fossil fuels in the ground, particularly given how increasingly destructive the methods of extraction have become as we continue to exhaust the resources, is a fundamental step of energy justice work. 

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"Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Site" by Green Fire Productions is licensed under CC BY 2.0

Who’s Working on Dismantling the Fossil Fuel Industry:

Oilwatch
Oilwatch is a network of resistance to the impacts of fossil fuels (oil, gas and coal) industries on people’s and their environments.Oilwatch Worldwide, News &#38;amp; CampaignsOilwatch Africa 2019 Declaration: Stop the Extractivist AddictionKeep Oil Underground: A report by Oilwatch with case studies from the Global SouthLinks to organizations organizing against fossil fuel destruction around the world
Oil Change International
OCI works to expose the true costs of fossil fuels and facilitate the ongoing transition to clean energy.Stop Funding Fossil Fuels Program uses critical analysis and strategic organizing to end the vast quantities of government support flowing to the fossil fuel industry and accelerate the clean energy transition.Still Digging: G20 Governments Continue to Finance the Climate Crisis: The report finds that since the Paris Agreement, G20 countries have acted directly counter to it by providing at least USD 77 billion a year in finance for oil, gas, and coal projects through their public finance institutions.&#38;nbsp;

Treaty Alliance to Stop Tar Sands ExpansionThis Treaty is an expression of Indigenous Law prohibiting the piplines/trains/tankers that will fuel the expansion of the Alberta Tar Sands


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Stop the Money PipelineStop the Money Pipeline is a campaign targeting the financial sector’s support of the cliamte crisisRainforest Action Network Campaign: JPMorgan Chase Defund Climate ChangeLiberty Mutual: Ditch Fossil Fuels!BlackRock’s Big Problem: Campaign targeting asset managers to stop driving climate changeDivestED : National training and strategy hub for student fossil fuel divestment campaigns. Sign the pledge to divest in the next year - put your money where your solidarity is (organized by Mazaska Talks)More resources on dismantling the fossil fuel industry:&#38;nbsp;
Reports:
Towards a Post-Oil Civilization: Yasunization and other initiatives to leave fossil fuels in the soil, EJOLTBanking on Climate Change 2020: Fossil Fuel Finance Report Card, RAN&#38;nbsp;Drilling Towards Disaster: Why U.S. Oil and Gas Expansion Is Incompatible with Climate Limits, Oil Change International (OCI)&#38;nbsp;Burning the Gas ‘Bridge Fuel’ Myth: Why Gas Is Not Clean, Cheap, or Necessary, OCI&#38;nbsp;Building a Post Petroleum Nigeria (Leave new oil in the soil), a Proposal by Friends of the Earth Nigeria &#38;amp; Environmental Rights Action Oil, Gas and Climate: An Analysis of Oil and Gas Industry Plans for Expansion and Compatibility with Global Emission Limits, CIELGuide:
Guide to Divesting Your Community,&#38;nbsp; Mazaska Talks (Money Talks) 
Campaign:Pledge to Divest, Mazaska Talks 
Obstacle 2&#38;nbsp;
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"The Mine... Another Look" by Storm Crypt is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0


Mining for minerals has a similar record to fossil fuel extraction in terms of the egregious human rights violations and environmental devastation. Minerals are used in everything from our smartphones and jewelry to electrical wiring and fertilizers - and, similarly to oil, the more we deprive this nonrenewable resource, the more destructive the methods of extraction become.&#38;nbsp; 

It is crucial to draw attention to mineral extractivism when discussing a Just Energy Transition. An important element to consider in fighting for a transition towards renewable energy are the non-renewable inputs required to produce that energy. Minerals, particularly rare earth elements, are essential to the production of renewable energy, from solar panels to wind turbines and batteries. Many of the key minerals critical to renewable energy production are already scarce and have a history of violence and even slave labor associated with their production. Besides, as analysis by EarthWorks shows “The skyrocketing demand for these minerals is driving the expansion of mining in geographic “hotspots” throughout the world – and even to the depths of the ocean – with disproportionately negative impacts in the Global South.”

The necessity of nonrenewable resources - commonly devastating to both communities and the planet, especially when produced at a large industrial scale - in renewable energy against points to the dire need to actually decrease and localize energy and mineral demand. 

Below are examples of communities successfully transitioning out of extractivist mining economy, as well as organizations advocating for people and places affected by skyrocketing mineral demands.

Yes to Life, No To Mining (YLNM)YLNM is a global solidarity network of and for communities, organisations and networks who are standing up for their Right to Say No to mining and advancing life-sustaining, post-extractive alternatives. In collaboration with the Gaia Foundation, YNLM launched a series of Emblematic Case studies from communities around the world that have been successfully resisting destructive mining.Myanmar Case Study: A collective from the Karen Environment and Social Action Network (KESAN) describe the Indigenous Karen People’s connection to their ancestral territory, and how they created the Salween Peace Park to assert their right to self-determination and protect their lands from militarism, mining and mega-dams.Cajamarca, Colombia Case Study: A study of how farmers, youth and other environmental defenders from Cajamarca, Colombia, have stopped a vast gold mine, re-valued the ‘true treasures’ in their territory and begun to develop regenerative alternatives to mining ‘development’.Galiza Case Study (Regenerating the Commons): Joám Evans Pim, villager in the Frojám Community Conserved Area and activist in Galician anti-mining network ContraMINAcción, explains how small communities like Frojám are confronting destructive mining by regenerating community governance and traditional territories.
Environmental Justice Organisations, Liabilities and Trade (EJOLT) EJOLT looks at mining conflicts and waste disposal conflicts to study the links between increased metabolism of the economy and environmental damage. 

EJOLT notes following organizations working against mineral extractivism: 

Mines and Communities (MAC)
The MAC website seeks to exposes the social, economic, and environmental impacts of mining, particularly as they affect Indigenous and land-based peoples.

Mines, Minerals and PeopleMM&#38;amp;P is a growing alliance of individuals, institutions and communities who are concerned and affected by mining. The isolated struggles of different groups have led us to form into broad a national alliance for combating the destructive nature of mining.


Mining Justice AllianceMJA is a coalition of activists, civil society organizations, students, and community members who initially formed to mobilize around Gorldcorp’s 2011 Annual General Meeting. Our focus has expanded in response to widespread concerns about endemic injustice within Canada’s state-supported mining industry.&#38;nbsp;

MiningWatch Canda:MiningWatch Canada works in solidarity with Indigenous peoples and non-Indigenous communities who are dealing with potential or actual industrial mining operations that affect their lives and territories, or with the legacy of closed mines, as well as with mineworkers and former workers seeking safe working conditions and fair treatment.

Observatorio de Conflictos Mineros en América Latina (OCMAL) [ES]
OCMAL’s main objective is the defense of the communities and peoples that are impacted by the effects of mining in the region.
More Reading Materials:
Performing ‘blue degrowth’: critiquing seabed mining in Papua New Guinea through creative practice by John ChildsExtracted: How the Quest for Mineral Wealth Is Plundering the Planet by Ugo BardiThe Geopolitics of Mineral Resources for Renewable Energy Technologies by Marjolein de RidderResponsible Mineral Sourcing for Renewable Energy by EarthWorks Report: Going 100% renewable power means a lot of dirty mining, Grist FACT SHEET: Battery Minerals for the Clean Energy Transition, EarthWorks</description>
		
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		<title>False Solutions</title>
				
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 May 2020 20:39:39 +0000</pubDate>

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		<description>False Solutions 
False Solution 1:&#38;nbsp; False “Renewables”
What gets listed under the “renewable energy” umbrella can vary greatly depending on the politics of who’s presenting. For instance, the majority of the “green” corporate sector highlights that energy transition is not possible without the use of nuclear energy, biofuels, and mega-dams. While that point is not entirely untrue, the necessity of these alternatives are entirely based on the desire to hold on to the extractive neoliberal capitalist system that brought us to this crisis in the first place. What proponents of such large scale industrial energy alternatives focus on is their “carbon neutral” footprint while failing to mention just how dangerous and destructive mega dams, nuclear energy, biofuels and incinerators are to planetary and community health. Such high-cost large scale projects also go in opposition to the principles of Energy Democracy and are not meant to benefit communities directly but rather serve as a substitute for profits currently made in the fossil fuel industry,

Below is a short list of false “renewables” and cooresponding organizations working to resist their negative impacts on their communities:

 Nuclear Energy As pointed out by Friends of the Earth International, “Nuclear power is a highly dangerous, high-cost energy source which poses the threat of nuclear proliferation and a severe risk to human life and the environment. Its potential as a major source of destruction has been clearly and repeatedly demonstrated.”

Friends of the Earth International: FoE’s nuclear campaign works to reduce risks for people and the environment by supporting efforts to close existing nuclear reactors and fighting proposals to design and build new ones.Dangers of Nuclear Reactors, FoE Nuclear power is not a viable solution for Green New Deal, FOI 


Mega-damsLarge-scale hydroelectric dam projects (aka mega-dams) drive extinction of species, massive displacements of entire villages, flood forests and wetlands, and are thus not a viable strategy for a Just energy Transition. (Read more about the injustices perpetrated by mega-dam projects on our Water page)

International Rivers is part of the global struggle to protect rivers and the rights of communities that depend on them.10 Things you Should Know About DamsProblems with Big Dams [Video]Learn more about Dams &#38;amp; water justice issues on our Water sector page
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BiofuelsGrowing biomass requires vast amounts of precious farm and forest land in order to produce a tiny fraction of energy (read more on why monocrops and the industrial agriculture system are deeply damaging to the soil and entire ecosystems on our Food page). 

Biofuel Watch provides information, advocacy and campaigning in relation to the climate, environmental, human rights and public health impacts of large-scale industrial bioenergy.&#38;nbsp; 


IncinerationThere is nothing “renewable” about burning waste that took many precious resources to produce in the first place. Moreover, incineration is incredibly dangerous as it releases high quantities of toxic air and water pollutants and threatens public health of communities living in proximity to incinerators, which are disproportionately low income and communities of color.&#38;nbsp; 

Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives: GAIA aims to catalyze a global shift towards environmental justice by strengthening grassroots social movements that advance solutions to waste and pollution. GAIA envisions a just, zero waste world built on respect for ecological limits and community rights, where people are free from the burden of toxic pollution, and resources are sustainably conserved, not burned or dumped. 

More reading resources:
U.S. Municipal Solid Waste Incinerators: An Industry in Decline, TEDC“Waste-to-Energy” has no place in Africa, GAIAFacts about “Waste-to-Energy” Incinerators, GAIA
False Solution 2: Carbon PricingCarbon Pricing privatizes the air we breathe, turning our atmosphere into something that can be traded on the private market, allowing polluters to continue polluting and poisoning fenceline environmental justice communities.

Who’s Working on Dismantling/Resisting Carbon Pricing:

Indigenous Environmental Network (IEN)IEN is an alliance of Indigenous peoples whose mission it is to protect the sacredness of Earth Mother from contamination and exploitation by strengthening, maintaining and respecting Indigenous teachings and natural laws. 
Carbon Offsets cause Conflict and Colonialism, IEN
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Climate Justice Alliance (CJA) CJA is an alliance of over 70 community organizations, movement networks, and support organizations on the frontlines of the climate crisis in North America.Carbon Pricing Toolkit (collaboration between IEN &#38;amp; CJA)- part of a wider education initiative that aims to build popular education and resistance to carbon pricing from the ground up.Carbon Pricing: A Popular Education Toolkit for Community Resistance (by Climate Justice Alliance)

More resources on Carbon Pricing:
Books, Articles, and Papers: 
Carbon Capitalism: Energy, Social Reproduction and World Order by Tim di MuzioEnergy transitions and the global land rush: Ultimate drivers and persistent consequences, by Arnim Scheidel &#38;amp; Alevgul H. SormanFailing States, Collapsing Systems: BioPhysical Triggers of Political Violence by Nafeez AhmedIndigenous ExtrACTIVISM in Boreal Canada: Colonial legacies, contemporary struggles and sovereign futures by AJ Willow Think fossil fuels are bad? Nuclear energy is even worse, MarketWatch The Capitalocene Part I: On the Nature &#38;amp; Origins of Our Ecological Crisis by Jason W. MooreCampaigns &#38;amp; Statements: Nuclear Energy Cannot be Considered Renewable Energy, Indigenous Environmental NetworkVideos:
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		<description>OverviewFood and agriculture are often at the center of struggles regarding climate change, capitalism, poverty, and Indigenous struggles. The Indigenous and peasant communities are leading the way in sustainable, just, and equitable paths to food and agriculture. 
Despite the industrial food web using up the most resources and producing the most emissions, they only actually produce ~30% of the world's food. Indigenous and peasant communities keep the world fed sustainably by only using a fraction of the resources to produce ~70% of the world's food. 
Ensuring an equitable future for our food systems requires a global paradigm shift, away from industrialized agriculture towards&#38;nbsp; regenerative, resilient, and just food systems grounded in Food Sovereignty.
Food sovereignty goes far beyond just providing food for everyone. It values cultural diversity, biodiversity, traditional knowledge, and addresses social justice and environmental degradation. Food sovereignty uses social mobilization to address massive widespread rural disintegration while also addressing the pressing issue of climate change. It aims to focus social and political actions on communities to promote local mobilization and cooperation on a regional, as well as on a much broader, geographic scale.
As a concept, food sovereignty was put forward at an international level by La Via Campesina at the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization’s World Food Summit in 1996. In this summit LVC presented a set of mutually supportive principles that can ground local and global transitions towards an alternative just food system:&#38;nbsp;
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This section will provide resources to understand the role that capitalism and industrial agricultural actors have in exacerbating climate change, world hunger, Indigenous oppression, and exploitation of labor, as well as resources from frontline communities that fight against the injustices surrounding food and agriculture by either direct action or by serving as models of alternatives.</description>
		
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		<title>Way Forward</title>
				
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		<description>Way ForwardWay Forward 1: Agroecology:&#38;nbsp;
Agroecology centers the regeneration of the land while providing food, medicine, and other community needs. It is simultaneously focused on biodiversity and cultural diversity, as the two are inextricably linked.&#38;nbsp;There are a vast range of agroecology projects, as each are localized to the needs of their community, human, water, animal, plant, and geological communities included.&#38;nbsp;
Agroecology is the opposite of industrial agriculture. It is a holistic land-based approach to farming practices, knowledge that has been produced and conserved by peasant, Indigenous, and small-scale family farmers around the world. 

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Source: Altieri, M. A., Nicholls, C. I., Henao, A., &#38;amp; Lana, M. A. (2015). Agroecology and the design of climate change-resilient farming systems. Agronomy for sustainable development. Design and edit by Christian Tandazo.


The knowledge of Peasant and Indigenous farmers is the key component in the design of agroecological farming practices. This knowledge is place-based, locally-adapted, and culturally-relevant, which has been passed down through generations. Industrial agriculture poses a threat to this knowledge. Farm land expropriation by agribusiness and transnational corporations continue to displace peasant and Indigenous farmers from their traditional territories, through this process incredible ancestral agricultural knowledge is lost. 
(For more on Peasant Right’s please see “Way Forward 5”)


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Agroecology small-scale family farming in Catacocha, Loja, Ecuador. Photo Credit: Christian Tandazo

As farm management practice, agroecology would: drastically reduce the use of fossil fuels for chemical and synthetic fertilizers, and pesticide production used in conventional agriculture; potential to mitigate through soil and plant rejuvenation for carbon sequestration; stormwater filtration; has the flexibility and diversity required to allow adaptation for changing climate conditions; and ensure food security.

Some of the multiple benefits of Agroecology include:
Provide stable yields and tackle hunger: agroecological systems chieve more stable levels of total yield per unit area.Linking food to territoriesNutrition, health and sustainable livelihoodsPreservation and sharing of cultural diversity and knowledgeTransparency and access to informationCentral role of rural womenRestoring ecosystems, soil health, and preserving biodiversityPreservation and renewal of genetic resources. Harnessing food systems to stop climate changeResilience to conflict and environmental disasters.
Agroecology requires we partake in a global paradigm change in our social, political, economic, and cultural relations and structures, but most importantly a change in the relationship between nature and society.&#38;nbsp; 

As the climate crisis increases the uncertainty of raising temperatures, intense storm patterns, droughts, and recently the emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic, it is imperative we transition from industrial agriculture towards agroecology and food sovereignty. Agroecology is the only model capable of feeding millions of people and addressing the climate crisis, however, this can only be achieved under the leadership of its protagonists: Indigenous, peasant, and small-scale family farmers.


Organizations leading the way in Agroecology:
Black Earth Farms Collective (USA)Black Earch Farms Collective is composed of skilled Pan-African and Pan-Indigenous peoples who study and spread ancestral knowledge and contemporary agroecological practices to train community members to build collectivized, autonomous, and chemical free food systems in urban and peri-urban environments throughout the Occupied Karkin Ohlone &#38;amp; Chochenyo Territory. 
Asociación ANDES (Peru): A Quechua organization that promotes the rights of Indigenous peoples and the biodiversity of food and agricultural systems. ANDES works to support Indigenous peoples through independent research and analysis, strategies based on the development of collective biocultural heritage, networking at the local, regional and international levels, and the promotion of new forms of cooperation and alliances.

Soul Fire Farm Inc. (USA): A BIPOC-centered community farm committed to ending racism and injustice in the food system. With deep reverence for the land and wisdom of our ancestors, we work to reclaim our collective right to belong to the earth and to have agency in the food system. 

Universidad Ixil (Guatemala)This University challenges western educational models. The university prioritises oral tradition over written and within its curriculum, promotes the ancestral knowledge born of that same land. Students engage in extensive fieldwork and research in their own communities, with the elders and Indigenous authorities as their principal sources of information.

Focus on the Global South (Global) 
Focus on the Global South is an activist think tank in Asia providing analysis and building alternatives for just social, economic and political change. One of the issues they cover is Food Sovereignty and Agroecology.&#38;nbsp;Organización Boricuá de Agricultura Ecológica de Puerto Rico Organización Boricuá, a member organization of La Via Campesina is a grassroots organization that was founded 30 years ago and is one of the leaders of the agroecology movement in Puerto Rico working to connect, teach, and support farmers and spread the use of agroecology across the country.
Proyecto Agroecológico El Josco Bravo Josco Bravo is an agro-ecological production and education project located in the foothills of the town of Toa Alta, Puerto Rico.

More Resources on Agroecology:&#38;nbsp;
Books, Articles, and Reports:
 Asociación ANDES Knowledge Portal&#38;nbsp;BIPOC Led Gardening ProjectsDuru, Michel, Olivier Therond, and M’hand Fares. 2015. “Designing Agroecological Transitions; A Review.” Agronomy for Sustainable Development 35(4): 1237–57Farming While Black by Leah Penniman&#38;nbsp;Friends of the Earth International. 2018. “Agroecology: Innovating for Sustainable Agriculture &#38;amp; Food Systems”. Who Benefits? Series. 1-32.Figueroa-Helland, L., Thomas, C., and Pérez Aguilera, A.. (2018). “Decolonizing Food Systems: Food Sovereignty, Indigenous Revitalization, and Agroecology as Counter-Hegemonic Movements.” Food &#38;amp; Land Sovereignty Resource List for COVID-19 Gliessman, Stephen M. (2008). “Agroecology and Agroecosystems.” In Sustainable Agriculture and Food, Agriculture and the Environment, London: Earthscan.IPES-Food. (2018). Breaking Away from Industrial Food and Farming Systems Seven: case studies of agroecological transition.IPES-Food. (2016). From Uniformity to Diversity: A paradigm shift from industrial agriculture to diversified agroecological systems.&#38;nbsp;Ixil University and the Decolonization of Knowledge by Giovanni BatzWorld Forum of Fisher Peoples. 2017. “Agroecology and Food Sovereignty in Small Scale Fisheries”. Transnational Institute.Roces, Irene García, Marta Soler Montiel and Assumpta Sabuco i Cantó. 2014 “Perspectiva ecofeminista de la Soberanía Alimentaria: La Red de Agroecología en la Comunidad Moreno Maia en la Amazonía brasileña.”

Way Forward 2:Indigenous Forest Gardens
Indigenous Forest Gardens, Forest Garden Systems, and Sacred Forests are highly biodiverse and sustainable agroforestry systems which have been cultivated and nurtured by indigenous peoples. 
Forest Gardens are based in polyculture, symbiotic plant relationships, cycles of forest and plant growth, a cosmology of the land as sacred, and traditional ecological knowledge and practices that have been passed down through generations. 
The Mayan Milpa system is practiced by most rainforest populations close to the equator, the most densely biodiverse areas in the world today and the locations at highest risk for biopiracy and extractivism. Milpa systems run over cycles of time, not singular farming seasons. Traditionally the cycle might be anywhere from 30 to 50 years, with over 1300 species throughout a given cycle. 
These systems include agroecological methods such as partial burns to enhance plant growth followed by the introduction of small crops such as maize. Indigenous forest gardens not only have been proven to increase forest biodiversity, but give communities and towns food sovereignty. 
Forest garden systems are used around the world; in India, over 100,000 sacred forests exist. Forest gardens and sacred forests have a high number of medicinal plants and higher species diversity than surrounding forests and even government-protected forestland. Nowadays, the Milpa exists in addition to the home garden and a middle distance garden. 
Forest gardens are but one example of agroecology and are based in indigenous cosmologies that surround the sacredness of the land. As many of these practices have been decimated over time through settler colonialism, indigenous led initiatives such as the Zapatista Food Forest, are working on ways to recover, teach, and preserve indigenous knowledge and practices.&#38;nbsp;
Organizations leading the way in Indigenous Forest Gardens:

MesoAmerican Research Center:
The MesoAmerican Research Center seeks to develop a broad understanding of the people, cultures, and environment of the greater Mesoamerican region of Mexico and Central America. Research of the center has emerged in the context of Anthropology and Archaeology, yet is wholly interdisciplinary in focus. The MesoAmerican Research Center continues to maintain its focus on the Maya forest and the broad fields of study in the region. 
Maya forest gardens 
El Pilar Forest Garden Network (Guatemala) The El Pilar Forest Garden Network is a group of Maya farmers who are keeping alive Maya cultural traditions, promoting sustainable agriculture, conserving biodiversity in the Maya Forest, and educating the public on the value of their time-honored strategies.


Forest Peoples Programme:The Forest Peoples Programme is a human rights based organization that works with forest peoples globally to secure their rights to land and livelihoods. FPP works to support indigenous organizations and forest peoples in advocating for indigenous forest management and assists with handling outside powers that threaten indigenous land rights.&#38;nbsp;
The Central Roles of Indigenous People and Local Communities in Achieving Global Commitments on Biodiversity&#38;nbsp;


More Resorces on Indigenous Forest Gardens:
 The Maya Forest Garde:&#38;nbsp;Eight Millennia of Sustainable Cultivation of the Tropical Woodlands.&#38;nbsp;By: Anabel Ford and Ronald Nigh Barbhuiya, A., U. Sahoo, and K. Upadhyaya. 2016. “Plant Diversity in the Indigenous Home Gardens in the Eastern Himalayan Region of Mizoram, Northeast India.” Economic Botany 70(2): 115–31.Campanha, Mônica Matoso et al. 2004. “Growth and Yield of Coffee Plants in Agroforestry and Monoculture Systems in Minas Gerais, Brazil.” Agroforestry Systems 63(1): 75–82Gabay, Mónica, and Mahbubul Alam. 2017 "Community Forestry and Its Mitigation Potential in the Anthropocene: The Importance of Land Tenure Governance and the Threat of Privatization." Forest policy and economics, v. 79, pp. 26-35.Wartman, Paul &#38;amp; Acker, Rene &#38;amp; Martin, Ralph. (2018). Temperate Agroforestry: How Forest Garden Systems Combined with People-Based Ethics Can Transform Culture. Sustainability. 10. 2246. 10.3390/su10072246.&#38;nbsp;Ormsby, Alison &#38;amp; Bhagwat, Shonil. (2010). Sacred Forests of India: A Strong Tradition Of Community-Based Natural Resource Management. Environmental Conservation. 37. 320 - 326. 10.1017/S0376892910000561IWGIA, PINGOS. Tanzania Indigenous People Policy Brief: Climate Change Mitigation Strategies and Eviction of Indigenous Peoples from their ancestral lands: The Case of Tanzania 

Way Forward 3:Queer &#38;amp; Trans Liberation / Gender Justice


“Mainstream understandings of botany and ecology have been used to justify violence against queer, trans, indigenous, and people of color; female, disabled, and marginalized bodies. The field of queer ecology seeks to reimagine the natural world in a way that values and affirms all life.” - Moretta Browne, Clare Riesman, and Edgar Xochitl

Queer and Trans Liberation, along side Gender Justice has been put forth as a solution for climate justice by many BIPOC women, trans people, and two spirit leaders because an analysis of gender and the violences it inflicts through patriarchy, homophobia, and transphobia, directly underpins the roots of the climate crisis. As shown in the sections above, food sciences have been deeply influenced by capitalism. Queer ecology rejects hetero-patriarchal science norms and forms of linear understanding. 

It’s clear that women, trans people, and two spirit people are disproportionately left on the front lines and bear the brunt of climate change as a convergence of crises. As such, attention and efforts need to be focused on securing their safety, autonomy, and futures – these must be pursued through gender self-determination, and redistribution of resources, not a top down approach. 
Furthermore, many BIPOC women, queer people, trans people, and two spirit people have been, and are already building resilient futures out of necessity. Mutual aid efforts around food security, healthcare access, diaster relief, harm reduction and more, are all efforts born from BIPOC queer communities because the system today has never worked for them. When looking towards solutions to building community resiliency that prioritizes agency of us that are most vulnerable, the BIPOC queer community is leading the way. 

Organizations leading the way:

Our Climate Voices
Our Climate Voices seeks to make climate change personal through localized and community based storytelling and organizing. They put together a great listening series on the relationship between Climate Justice and Queer and Trans Liberation. 
Listening series on Climate Justice and Queer and Trans Liberation&#38;nbsp;
La Via CampesinaLa Via Campesina, the largest international member based peasant’s movement, prioritizes the needs of women because they see “Food Sovereignty as a feminist issue.” Practices such as Agroecology and food sovereignty promote women’s autonomy as when capitalism and the norms of domination of women by men and men of the earth are abolished, all life becomes safer. Keeping the Struggles of Peasant Women Alive, La Via CampesinaWomen’s struggles for a Peasant and Peoples’ Feminism
More Resources on Queer &#38;amp; Trans Liberation / Gender Justice:

Brady, A., Torres, A., &#38;amp; Brown, P. (2019).&#38;nbsp; What the queer community brings to the fight for climate justice.Brimm, Katie. (2019) We are Natural: California Farmers Reimagine the World through Queer EcologyKabir, Kareeda. (2018) How Climate Change in Bangladesh Impacts Women and Girls, NYU Press. Queer Ecology


Way Forward 4: 
Peasant RightsPeasants, small scale farmers and fishers, family farmers, pastoralists, hunters and gatherers, have been at the forefront of the fight for food sovereignty against agribusiness and transnational corporations. Unfortunately, taking a stand against corporations has propelled violence agaisnt peasants and workers, as more people continue to be displaced from their traditional farming lands at the hands of agribusinesses and transnational corporations. They have been criminalized or even killed for the simple act of saving seeds to feed their families. 

Peasants are safeguards of agrobiodiversity, biocultural diversity, and traditional agricultural knowledge that foster a relationship of reciprocity, with the land, water, soils, non-human kin, and microbial diversity. Peasants also care for seeds, contributing to global seed diversity by protecting and sometimes interbreeding 50,00 - 60,000 wild relatives of cultivated species at no cost.

Through these practices, peasants have become the main or sole food providers to more than 70% of the world’s population, while Industrial Agriculture only feeds 30%. Peasants produce this amount of food with less than 25% of the resources the industrial food system uses - including land, waste, fossil fuels - used to get all of the world’s food to the consumer’s table.
The ancestral knowledge and practices that peasants hold are vital to global food security, provide an opportunity to drastically reduce emissions from the agriculture sector, revitalize depleted soils, preserve biodiversity, and produce healthy and culturally relevant foods. 

However, peasants alone won’t be able to solve the world’s crises and threats to food security, therefore, it is imperative to show support for peasants in the fight and struggle for their rights, whether at the policy level or on the ground.&#38;nbsp; 

Organizations leading the fight for Peasant’s Rights: 

La Via Campesina (LVC)
LVC is the largest transnational agrarian movement today. LVC actively builds alliances with other social movements, bringing together millions of peasants, small and medium size farmers, landless people, rural women and youth, indigenous people, migrants and agricultural workers from around the world; trying to respond to the impacts of capitalist development in food, agriculture and land-use. LVC is mainly recognized for championing and developing the Food Sovereignty paradigm

LVC is built on a strong sense of unity, solidarity, it defends peasant, Indigneous and small-scale family farmers for food sovereignty as a way to promote social justice and dignity and strongly opposes corporate driven agriculture that destroys social relations and nature.

Peasant’s Rights&#38;nbsp;Illustration - UN Declaration on the Rights of Peasants and Other People Working in Rural Areas (UNDROP) The United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Peasants: A Tool in the Struggle for our Common Future
Movimiento Campesino a Campesino (MCAC) - (Central America and Cuba)MCAC, or Farmer to Farmer, is a grassroots movement that originated in the early 1970s in Guatemala and expanded to Mexico, Nicaragua, and Cuba. It was pioneered by Mayan campesinos who applied methods of soil and water conservation in their farming practices. They later proceeded to share this knowledge with other peasant farmers in Mexico. This was has been described as peasant pedagogy, which generates effective site-specific agroecological solutions, encourages forms of non-hierarchical communication and leadership structures. This for of pedagogy was later spread throughout Central America and the Caribbean.

The peasant seeds network (France)The Peasant Seeds Network leads a movement of collectives rooted in the territories which renew, disseminate and defend peasant seeds, as well as the associated know-how and knowledge.

These collectives are inventing new seed systems, a source of cultivated biodiversity and autonomy, in the face of the industry's monopoly on seeds and its patented GMOs.

More Resources on Peasant Right’s:

Bocci, R. &#38;amp; Chable, V. (2009). Peasant seeds in Europe: stakes and prospects.ETC Group. (2017). Who Will Feed Us?: The Peasant Food Web vs. The Industrial Food Chain.Gevers, C., van Rijswick, H., &#38;amp; Swart, J. (2019) Peasant Seeds in France: Fostering A More Resilient AgricultureRosset, Peter &#38;amp; Sosa, Braulio &#38;amp; Jaime, Adilén &#38;amp; Avila, Rocio. (2011). The Campesino-to-Campesino Agroecology Movement of ANAP in Cuba: Social Process Methodology in the Construction of Sustainable Peasant Agriculture and Food Sovereignty.</description>
		
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Obstacle 1:
Industrial Agriculture

Industrial agriculture (IA) involves huge monoculture farms that prioritize crops for biofuel production rather than produce. These farms pollute local water supplies, erode the soil, and are less resilient to climate disasters due to their lack of crop diversity. This system uses more than 75% of the world’s agricultural land, a process that destroys 75 billion tons of topsoil annually. 

It is a linear sequence of links running from production inputs: crop and livestock genomics, pesticides, fertilizers, farm machinery, veterinary medicine, to transportation and storage, then to milling processing and packaging, to consumption outcomes: wholesaling, retailing, restaurants, delivery of home, and food lost and wasted.

Monoculture farms are far less resilient to climate disasters than agroecological farms, leaving IA farmers with no income or produce after climate disasters, such as Hurricane Maria in 2017. They also disconnect consumers from peasants and land, altering our food customs and practices and accelerating the loss of agrodiversity. 

Globalized IA is responsible for 50% of global greenhouse gas emissions,  one third of which comes from livestock, and accounts for 85-90% of all agricultural emissions. IA requires intensive pesticide and fertilizer use which ruins the soil, chemicalizes the land, water, and crops, and exacerbates the impacts of climate change

In addition, IA uses 70% of all withdrawn water resources and most of it is used for irrigation, livestock – which accounts for 27% of water use, and processing. The use of massive amounts of drinking water in IA threatens the stability of water and food security throughout the globe as food is dependent on water availability.&#38;nbsp;

Over the last 50 years much of the world’s agriculture has been transformed from traditional peasant agriculture into IA from traditional peasant agriculture, simultaneously, in the last 50 years humans have tripled water extraction withdrawing about four thousand cubic kilometers of water globally each year.

The rapid expansion of Industrial Agriculture and globalization of food systems has narrowed the agrobiodiversity world’s food supply, increasing the likelihood of catastrophic crop failure in the event of drought, heavy rains, and outbreaks of pest and disease. We are currently witnessing these catastrophic climate events unfold, such as the wildfires in the worlds’ forests, droughts in farmland, locust swarms in Africa, and the COVID-19 pandemic&#38;nbsp; – all of which have been exacerbated by climate change.

Organizations working to dismantle Industrial Agriculture:

Timbaktu Collective 
The Timbaktu Collective, an India-based NGO, aims to enable marginalised rural people, landless labourers, and small and marginal farmers particularly women, children, youth, Dalits and the people with disabilities, to enhance their livelihood resources, get organised and work towards social justice and gender equity and lead life in a meaningful and joyous manner.

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 Organic Farmers in the Anantapur District, Andhra Pradesh, India in 2015 
Photo credit: Laura Langner

Their vision is for rural communities to take control of their own lives, govern themselves and live in social, gender, and ecological harmony while maintaining a sustainable lifestyle. 
Organic Farmer Cooperative Program - Assists farmers in switching from industrial agriculture to organic farming, re-empowering farmers strapped by loans (due to high costs of chemical inputs &#38;amp; monoculture) through the support of the cooperative &#38;amp; knowledge sharing through farmers Dharani - Removes the middleman and allows organic cooperative farmers to directly profit from their crops &#38;amp; be economically protected through good/bad seasons. They attempt to engage with the market through a Cooperative model, with larger numbers being a source of strength and solidarity.
Navdanya
Vandana Shiva’s seed saving non-profit which has created 122 community seed banks in India to directly counteract industrial agriculture’s patenting of seeds and allow farmers to regain autonomy. 

ETC Group
ETC Group addresses the socioeconomic and ecological issues surrounding new technology that impact the world’s marginalized people. They investigate the erosion of ecology, culture, and human rights; monitor global governance issues including corporate control and concentration of technologies; and the development of new technologies, in particularly agricultural but also other technologies. 

They work closely with partner civil society organizations and social movements, especially in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. 

More Resources on dismantling Industrial Agriculture:

Books, Articles, and Reports:
Campbell, B. M., D. J. Beare, E. M. Bennett, J. M. Hall-Spencer, J. S. I. Ingram, F. Jaramillo, R. Ortiz, N. Ramankutty, J. A. Sayer, and D. Shindell. (2017). Agriculture production as a major driver of the Earth system exceeding planetary boundariesIPES-Food. 2017. Unravelling the Food–Health Nexus: Addressing practices, political economy, and power relations to build healthier food systemJacquet, P. &#38;amp;, &#38;amp; Pachauri, R. K., Tubiana, L. (2012). Towards Agricultural Change? Development, the Environment and Food


Obstacle 2:&#38;nbsp;
Agribusiness, Transnational Corporations (TNCs), &#38;amp; Mega-Mergers
Agribusiness is the business of Industrial Agriculture and plays a role as a global hegemonic power pushing for land and water resource acquisition.
In the last couple of decades agribusiness corporations have been merging at an unprecedented rate. In 2001, six companies were the global leaders: Monsanto, Syngenta, Dupont, Dow Chemical, Bayer CropScience and BASF. These companies became known as the “the big six” and by 2013 they controlled 63% of comercial seed sales globally, and 75% of agricultural chemical sales around the world.

Back in 2016, there were The Big Six &#38;amp; ChemChina:


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Source:
Sandwell, Katie. “Mega-Mergers and the fight for our food system”.

Then, in 2017, there was a push for further consolidation of monopoly corporatist power with the announcement of three agribusiness mega-mergers: ChemChina-Syngenta, Bayer-Monsanto, and Dow-DuPont. These mergers were approved by industry regulators. 

The Big Six were now The Big Four: Bayer-Monsanto, DowDupont/Corteva, ChemChina-Syngenta, BASF.

Later, Dow-Dupont split into three chemical corporations in 2019: Dow, DuPont, and Corteva Agriscience. 

Dow focuses on performance chemicals, chemical additives, and packaging. Market cap: $33.5 billion

Dupon focuses on specialty material, high-growth materials, and nutrition. Market cap: $49.6 billion

Corteva Agriscience focuses on agricultural chemicals and seeds. Market cap: $21.8 billion. Derives more than half its revenue from North America. 

TNCs are involved at multiple levels of natural resource acquisition and degradation. TNCs have displaced local food retailers and promoted worldwide convergence of urban diet on a narrow range of staple foods as well as meat, edible oils, fats, sugars, and cheap unhealthy processed foods, contributing to the global epidemic of obesity and diet-related diseases.

Some well-known TNCs are*: Sime Darby Bhd, Dole Food Company Inc, Fresh Del Monte Produce, Cargill, Deere &#38;amp; Company, Nestle SA, Unilever, Kraft Foods Inc., Mars Inc., Coca Cola, Suntory Ltd. 

*Source:&#38;nbsp; World Investment Report: Transnational Corporations, Agricultural Production and Development.&#38;nbsp; 

Agribusiness and TNCs have created monopolies to hold power and control of our food systems. The world can no longer sustain this.
Organizations leading the fight against Agribusiness, Transnational Corporations, and Mega-Mergers: 

La Via Campesina (LVC)
As the largest transnational agrarian movement, LVC has been the leader in the fight against agribusiness, TNCs, and extractive industries. They have developed multiple international campaigns to prevent further consolidation of power from corporations.
Campaign For A Binding TreatyCampaign Against AgroToxics Fight Against Transnational Corporations (TNCs) and Agribusiness Farmworker Association of Florida 
The Farmworker Association of Florida, a member organization of La Via Campesina, focuses on protecting farmworkers and rural poor communities in Florida from the injustices and dangers of working on industrial agriculture farms including continual exposure to pesticides, extremely hot temperatures, and economic and physical exploitation as undocumented migrant workers and the surrounding community. 

Coalition of Immokalee WorkersThis is a worker-based human rights organization internationally recognized for its achievements in fighting human trafficking and gender-based violence at work. 
Fair Food Program Anti Slavery ProgramCampaign for Fair FoodFacts and Figures on Florida Farmworkers

More Resources on dismantling Agribusiness, TNCs, and Megamergers:

Books, Articles, and Reports:
Gonzalez, Carmen. 2016. The Environmental Justice Implications of Biofuels. Los Angeles: UCLA. Food and Water Watch. (2020). DOJ Fast Tracking Lethal Agricultural Mega-MergersOrganisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. (2018).Concentration in Seed Markets: Potential Effects and Policy ResponsesReuters. (2020). ChemChina, Sinochem merge agricultural assets: SyngentaRibeiro, Silvia. (2020). Breeding the Next PandemicStarbuck, Amanda, C. (2020). Mega-Mergers Are As Guilty As the Pandemic for our broken Food Supply Chain.ETC Group &#38;amp; IPES-Food. (2017). Too Big to Feed: Exploring the impacts of mega-mergers, consolidation and concentration of power in the agri-food sector Transnational Institute. (2019). Mega-Mergers and the fight for our food system.

Obstacle 3: 
International Financial Institutions (IFIs)

World Trade Organization (WTO)The WTO Agreement on Agriculture (AoA) contained numerous ambiguities that enabled wealthy nations to subsidize and protect their domestic agricultural sector while constraining the ability for developing nations to utilize tariffs to protect their small farmers from economically devastating surges of cheap food (Gonzalez, 2011).
World Bank (WB) and International Monetary Fund (IMF)
In the 1970s the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) pushed developing countries to take out loans from global North banks to pay for imported fuel and petroleum-based agricultural inputs. In 1979-80 oil prices shook while agricultural commodities‘ interest rates soared and prices dropped, making&#38;nbsp;debtor nations in the global South unable to repay their loans (Gonzalez, 2011).

The WB and IMF addressed this issue by imposing a structural adjustment (a standard receipt of free market reforms) on these indebted nations that eliminated subsidies to the agricultural sectors, it opened up their markets to foreign competition by reducing tariffs and other trade barriers (Gonzalez, 2011).Structural adjustment introduced a double standard in international agricultural trade that continues to the present day: open markets for the poor and protectionism for the wealthy (Gonzalez, 2011).

Organizations leading the fight against IFIs:

La Via CampesinaLVC is committed to fighting against the manipulation of international financial institutions over our food systems, peasant and land rights.
Fight Against WTOFight Against Free Trade Agreements

Obstacle 4:&#38;nbsp;
Extractive IndustriesExtractive industries such as mining, drilling, and fracking are not only drivers of climate change, but they also have extreme detrimental effects on land and ecosystems, water sources, the air, local food systems and food sovereignty leading to serious repercussions on the livelihoods, health, culture, and economic well-being of local communities, predominantly rural, peasant, and indigenous communities worldwide. 

Organizations leading the fight against Extractivism:

GRUFIDES&#38;nbsp;(Peru)Fighting against mining projects in Peru 

Unist'ot'en camp 
Leading the fight to protect unceded territory, rivers, and land from the Coastal Gaslink Pipeline 

Amazon Frontlines 
Defending Indigenous rights to land, life and cultural survival in the Amazon rainforest.</description>
		
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False Solutions 1: 
Global Redesign Initiative

The Global Redesign Initiative (GRI), spearheaded by the World Economic Forum, is a system of multi-stakeholder governance (MSG) as a partial replacement for intergovernmental decision-making (La Via Campesina, 2016) which encourages the privatization of the governance of people’s food systems and nutrition. Other similar “no-go” solutions that follow the GRI logic are the Scaling-Up Nutrition (SUN), Coastal Fisheries Initiative (CFI) or the G8 New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition for Africa (La Via Campesina, 2016). 

False Solution 2: Agricultural Biotechnology 

As the global population grows, agricultural biotechnology, agritech or biotech is frequently seen as a solution to increase global food supply. Global food insecurity is due to lack of proper distribution rather than supply. We currently produce more than enough food to feed the world’s growing population. Biotechnology presents many problems including further corporate control of our food system, negative effects on ecosystems, land degradation, use of chemical inputs, idk if this makes sense my brain is fried genetically modifying crops, contamination of non-GM crops by GM crops, corporate ownership of land for biotech experimentation, and the patenting of seeds and knowledge. While debates exist in the realm of GM foods, the side effects of GMO are still up for debate. 


False Solution 3: Biofuel 

Biofuel is fuel created by biomass, plant material, and is seen as an energy solution to climate change creating ethanol or biodiesel. To create biofuel, huge swaths of land are used to grow monoculture crops, meaning this land is not being used to grow food for local communities. The U.S. spends billions of dollars subsidizing biofuels and pouring money into companies such as Monsanto, Shell, Exxon, and Syngenta. Biofuels perpetuate global poverty and exacerbate food insecurity, food price increases, and climate change (Gonzalez, 2016). The EROEI, energy return on energy invested is far too low with biofuel, meaning that it almost takes as much energy to create the fuel that it then creates, making biofuel production an inefficient use of land and a 
false climate solution.&#38;nbsp; 

(For more inforamtion on Biofuels please refer to the Energy + Minerals section)

False Solution 4:
Climate-smart agriculture
The Global Alliance of Climate Smart Agriculture, launched at the UN in 2014, as a way to continue increasing “farming productivity, build resilience to climate change, and reduce/ remove greenhouse gas emissions.” Disturbingly, out of the 29 forming members of the Alliance, three were fertilizer lobby groups and two were the world’s largest fertilizer companies - groups whose goal is to advance the interest of the agribusiness sector and maintain goal profit-based extractivist food production. Thus, their corporate agenda is now deeply entrenched in Climate Smart Agriculture, making it another false solution bound to create further harms instead of repairing them. CSA is a clear continuation of colonial imperialism and does not offer any real system changes to the food system required in the age of the climate emergency.&#38;nbsp; 
More Resources: 
The Exxons of Agriculture, GRAIN
Climate Smart Agriculture Concerns
‘Climate-Smart Agriculture’: the Emperor’s New Clothes? CIDSE


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Overview
Land is the basis for all life. It is the ground from which our plants grow and water flows. Land shapes and is shaped by societies’ political, economic, and cultural dynamics. Power affects land access, and land access grants power. Given land’s central role to human society, it is unsurprising that land privitization has been central to profit accumulation in the expansion of global capitalism. 

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The ongoing legacy of European colonization commodified land as property that can be owned, privatized, and sold while dispossessing the original caretakers and inhabitants of the land. Colonization, capitalism, and the patriarchy have shaped, overused, destroyed, and pillaged the land, causing genocide and decimation of entire peoples and cultures globally, predominantly affecting Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC). For Indigenous peoples, land and nature are not merely resources that can be valued monetarily and exploited purely for production and extraction but rather as relatives within one ecosystem. 
“Within Indigenous contexts land is not property, as in settler colonialism, but rather land is knowing and knowledge” (Arvin et. al, 2013).&#38;nbsp;
 Want to learn more about the history of colonization in the U.S.?

Check out this Interactive Time-Lapse Map that shows how the U.S. stole over 1.5 billion acres from Native Americans.


The Western ideal of land ownership and property rights stands in stark contrast with Indigenous cosmologies, rooted in the symbiotic relationship between humans, plants, animals, and the land. It’s telling that the places on Earth with the greatest biodiversity are the areas with the highest linguistic and cultural diversity, a term researchers have defined as biocultural diversity – through a worldview that is based in reciprocity rather than extractivism, many beings are possible. Indigenous territories make up ~20% of land on Earth; that land holds 80% of the Earth’s biodiversity. Through colonization, Western powers and norms have worked tirelessly to promote one way of relating to the land – dominance – which has proven to be impossibly unsustainable and destructive. Thus, systemic climate solutions to land are based in decolonization, re-indigenization, land rematriation to BIPOC communities, re-commoning the land, shifting away from the extractive economy to a regenerative economy, and a re-localization of governance as we strengthen communities and move toward alternative and communal forms of caring for and relating to the land.

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Costa Rica, Manuel Antonio, Photo credit: Génesis Abreu 

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