AARHUS: Agroecology as solution to the environmental crisis
We have invited members of La Via Campesina from Brazil, Colombia and Guatemala to share their stories on how to produce food through socially just, ecologically sound and sustainable methods.
Factory farming is destroying the planet. But people all over the world are fighting back and are showing the way to a better future for the planet and the beings who call it home.
In Denmark we just had the so-called pig election where the citizens rejected large scale pig farming and all the pollution and suffering that goes with it. But how could an alternative Danish agriculture work?
Maybe the solution can be found in Latin America where social movements promotes agroecology as part of their political and social struggles.
Tuesday May 26th we have invited members of La Via Campesina – the world’s largest peasant movement – from Brazil, Colombia and Guatemala to share their stories on how to produce food through socially just, ecologically sound and sustainable methods.
Who are coming?
From MST – La Via Campesina Brazil, you can meet Priscila Rodrigues Araujo who is part of MST’s regional leadership in Minas Gerais, two local MST cooperatives and coordinate MST’s local solidarity program in marginalised urban periphery. MST have had great victories in gaining access to agricultural land through land occupations and build a strong movement fighting for a land reform with focus on redistribution to the landless and support for agroecological production.
CNA – La Via Campesina Colombia will be represented by Darinson Amaya Álvares who works with communication, education and peace-building within CNA. CNA is establishing Peasant Food Territories with the aim of boosting the peasant economy. Within these territories, they are putting agroecology into practice and have promoted initiatives such as native seed banks and bio-fertiliser production facilities.
And finally from Conavigua – La Via Campesina Guatemala, you can meet Juliana Chuj Tzorin, a social leader and women’s rights advocate of Conavigua. Conavigua works with Agroecology as a means to change attitudes and ways of thinking, as well as to strengthen resistance to mega-projects and the use of toxic pesticides.
Program
17.00 Presentations
18.30 Community dinner – locally sourced, organic, plantbased
19.15 Exchange in smaller groups
Language: The event will be in English. Some presentations will be in Spanish with translation into English. On demand we will organise whisper translation into Danish.
