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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
Massification of Agroecology Becomes a Priority for the MST
With the aim of expanding agroecological production in the territories of the Agrarian Reform, the Massification Course in Agroecology began this Wednesday (October 22) in the Northeast region, scheduled to take place in other regions of the country.
Since the 2000s, after several collective debates, the MST has shifted the model of peasant and family farming in Agrarian Reform settlements, understanding that the use of pesticides and chemical additives destroys the environment, the health of all beings and jeopardizes the future of humanity. From this period onwards, the Landless Workers began a process of transition from the conventional production model to another model, with the production matrix based on agroecology and the production of healthy food, in balance with nature.
READ MORE ON THE MST'S PLAN TO EXPAND AGROECOLOGY
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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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