Even though agriculture is more visible than ever at COP this year, this isn’t necessarily a good thing. False solutions in food systems are more active than ever!
In these stressful times, let us remember a time when Agroecology almost made it into a COP outcome. Agroecology that empowers rural communities is the only approach that is built from the ground up by peasant and social movements. It is the only approach that ticks all the right boxes: adaptation, mitigation, biodiversity, human rights, and much more…
Sometimes ECO has to ask itself: Did we dream that the text from Glasgow COP26 included [Agroecology] in brackets?
Today, on Agriculture day at COP27, those days feel like a long time ago – much longer than a year ago. Especially when you look at the initiatives being announced today with so much fanfare.
With initiatives such as AIM4Climate, the corporate agribusiness sector is serving up its false solutions that see farming as the job of technology instead of smallholder farmers. Instead of real solutions for climate, farmers, and food security, the AIM4C menu includes “innovative tools by the private sector,” sensor technologies and MORE fertilisers instead of fewer!
Brace yourselves, agri-eenwashing is coming!
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