The MST: 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.

By the numbers:

Here is a timeline for the Plantar Árvores program (in Portuguese, but readily understandable):

Plantar Árvores Produzir Alimentos Saudáveis - MST

*PDF of the Agrarian Program of the MST below. This document from 2014 lays out the program for People's Agrarian Reform.