At a time when the media warn of high prices and shortages caused by the war in Europe, although there is not always an exact correlation, we are once again questioning the information that places large companies as suppliers of most of our food. Anchored in this fabricated image, the industrial agri-food system is driving a new attack on agriculture by digitizing its processes.
promotes the “carbon capture” of so-called “nature-based solutions”. It continues its effort to control and subject supply chains to regulations to favor their interests, and even seeks to supplant the efforts of peasants in many parts of the world, advocating an “agroecology” that is now promoted by the same companies and investment funds. that for centuries deprived the peasantry of the possibilities of exercising independent agriculture.
Thus, it is essential to defend our food sovereignty in agrobiodiversity: the possibility of being able to reproduce our seeds in our terms and spaces, that is, with complete freedom, and maintain our total independence to produce our own food.
For this, it is still essential to challenge land grabbing and insist on autonomy and the defense of peasant and indigenous territories and even urban spaces of popular self-management in the neighborhoods.
CIP for Food Sovereignty, Friends of the Earth International s GRAIN
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