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The below was featured in NOFA-NH's March Newsletter. Sign up for that newsletter HERE >>
In terms of climate healing and social justice, here’s a wide-ranging look at the greenwashing and actual landgrabs that underpin ‘Carbon Market’ projects worldwide. Learn how these are distracting from the need to stop polluting activities where they happen, and how they’re harming time-honored, indigenous systems of relatively sovereign, small-scale food production.
Combine the previous article with this beautiful short film and you’ll be able to better appreciate Big Ag’s impact on communities in Africa. Specifically, the film amplifies the voices and situations of the people who are being displaced by internationally-financed palm oil, soy, and other mono-cropped operations growing food for export.
Conclude with an eloquent 20-minute commentary from the UN’s Special Rapporteur for the Right to Food, Michael Fakhir. In it, he delineates the symbiotic relationships between agroecological food systems (based on small-scale, diversified, organic food production), food access, social justice, and even climate resilience. This address was presented last month at the People’s Forum on the EU-Africa Partnership.
