1,300 MST activists will meet with leaders, movements, and popular organizations from around the world at the People's Summit and COP30 in Belém, Pará
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Agroecology and Reforestation
Program of Plantar Árvores: Plant 100 million trees in ten years in rural schools, cooperatives, technical training centers, squares, avenues and cities, strengthen the production of healthy food in MST settlements and encampments, denounce the destructive model of agribusiness and its impacts on the environment.
These are some of the objectives of the National Plan to Plant Trees, Produce Healthy Food, launched in 2020 by the MST throughout Brazil.
The Plan is a space for articulation, training, political organization and broad debate, reaffirming:
• People’s Agrarian Reform* and the defense of their territories and family farming;
• Food Sovereignty as a radical change in the direction of food production and distribution, providing access to healthy food especially for the most vulnerable populations, as a way of promoting preventive health in the country that uses the most pesticides in the world;
• Agroecology, which is based on sociobiodiversity, the solidarity economy and respect for traditional knowledge and local/regional cultures; and
• The care of Common Goods, such as water, minerals, land and biodiversity, which are finite natural resources and, therefore, common to all human beings (environmental preservation).
Planting trees and producing healthy food are actions that the MST has historically developed, and in this special edition you will have access to a variety of information about the National Plan, in an exclusive manner. With this, the MST believes that it will make a great contribution to society and to Brazilian biomes.
Click here for more information on the MST's Program of Agroecology and Reforestation
MST debates environmental issues during 34th State Meeting in São Paulo
The environmental issue is directly linked to the agrarian issue. In this historical time, faced with the accelerated pace of plundering of nature that serves to accumulate capital, there are no effective solutions to the ecological crisis other than through people’s agrarian reform.
Therefore, confronting the latifundia and large corporations that profit from the destruction of common goods is a central task in the anti-capitalist and anti-imperialist struggle.
The settlement where two MST activists were murdered is a reference in agroecology
The Olga Benário settlement, created in 2006, is home to more than 50 families of workers who practice diversified agriculture, working in the production of cassava, sugar cane, vegetables, livestock and food for the local market and for subsistence. Agroecological production is highlighted, especially through the implementation of Agroforestry Systems (SAFs) that integrate vegetables, native trees from the Atlantic Forest biome and practices such as collecting forest seeds and green manure.
The Political Organization of Brazil’s Landless Workers’ Movement (MST)
This dossier focuses on the MST’s tactics and forms of organization and why it is the only peasant social movement in Brazil’s history that has managed to survive for over a decade in the face of the political, economic, and military power of Brazil’s large landowners
Read the full report including downloads of the dossier in English and Spanish
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Food sovereignty as resistance in Palestine
In Palestine, agriculture is a form of resistance against the Israeli occupation
It is difficult to imagine the existence of agriculture and food production in Gaza, where there is no security, no peace, and even less arable land. After twenty months of atrocities and mass destruction of infrastructure, the death toll from Israel’s genocide on Gaza is over 56,000, with hundreds of thousands of injured, and the mass displacement of the majority of the population. The existence of arable land, untouched by Israel’s devastating bombing campaign, or even the possibility to have freedom to move and tend to the land in Gaza, are distant dreams. In the West Bank, however, agriculture is still a reality.
As of October 2024, half a million Jewish settlers lived in the occupied West Bank – a number that continues to grow especially since October 7, 2023, when Israel launched its genocide on Gaza.
The level of violence in the West Bank and East Jerusalem is also growing with the intensification of land annexations, the increase of armed settlers, and the killing of Palestinians. And on top of that the Israeli government offers subsidies to Jewish families from other parts of the world (especially from the US and Europe) who, under the belief of an ancestral right to this long-inhabited land, come to the region. The number of settlements has also increased since the beginning of the Netanyahu government.
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