[Nyeleni Infopost] Fwd: [Info EN] The solution to the climate crisis is in our peasant struggle for Food and Energy Sovereignty!

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Aufruf von Via Campesina zu Aktionen für Ernährungssouveränität
anlässlich des Kimagipfels in Bonn

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Betreff: 	[Info EN] The solution to the climate crisis is in our peasant
struggle for Food and Energy Sovereignty!
Datum: 	Fri, 27 Oct 2017 05:46:50 +0200
Von: 	La Via Campesina <via-info-en at viacampesina.org>
Antwort an: 	viacampesina at viacampesina.org
An: 	via info en <via-info-en at viacampesina.org>

 


  The solution to the climate crisis is in our peasant struggle for Food
  and Energy Sovereignty!

*La Via Campesina – Call to Action*

/click here for German version/
<http://www.eurovia.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/DE-COP23-Call-to-Action-DE.pdf>

The next United Nations conference on climate change will take place
from the 6th to 17th of November in Bonn, Germany 2017 – with Mother
Earth heating up dramatically and humanity plagued by unprecedented
adverse weather and rising sea levels. The capitalist system, fuelled by
the profit greed, is not capable of addressing the current climate
crisis. Even the COP21 Paris Agreement and its inadequate proposals to
keep temperature increases below 2 degrees celsius is in limbo, with the
recent pull out by U.S. President Donald Trump.

This year we witnessed the increased impacts of climate change both in
scale and intensity: hurricanes (Harvey, Irma, Maria, etc.), floods
(India, Nepal, Bangladesh, Sierra Leone, etc.), storms, droughts, heat
waves and more. Hundreds of thousands of people displaced, thousands
killed, and total disappearance of some island territories. In many
cases, peoples have lost all the resources needed for living. The most
affected: peasants, poor people, rural workers, the indigenous, the
fisherfolk.

We know the cause of this climate crisis: the global industrial food
system is responsible for over 50% of greenhouse gas emissions through
intensive use of agrochemicals, toxins, fossil energy, freight land
grabbing and forest degradation through plantations, mining, logging
etc. Perpetrators of the crisis, using their "monetary muscle", now
lobby and push for false solutions: "climate-smart" agriculture, GMOs,
REDD and REDD+, "blue carbon", and all other green economy schemes that
seek the financialization of nature and its services. Multinationals
pollute the climate negotiations and make them the place of economic and
financial power over peoples, to the detriment of our rights.

As the COP23 draws nearer, we reaffirm the importance of struggling for
public policies that promote and support agroecology, local
community-controlled energy systems and collective action for a just
transition away from fossil fuels and against the false energy solutions
that encourage corporate capture of our natural resources. Our peasant
agroecology feeds the soil with organic matter, conserves and recovers
biodiversity, using the knowledge of our peoples and our Mother Earth to
feed us. We reject any attempt by agribusiness to co-opt agroecology and
commit ourselves to defending and promoting our peasant agroecology!

For Vía Campesina, our lands, our knowledge, our seeds, our rights are
not negotiable! We call for the strengthening of all mobilizations
against this system that engenders the current and future climate
crimes. We must fight against all free trade agreements and disastrous
oil, gas and mining projects as well as all exclusionary mega projects
(dams, highways, airports, plantations, etc). We must urgently transform
the financial, social and ecological production systems, as well as the
sharing of labor and wealth, the preservation of common goods such as
water, land, flora and fauna.

We call upon our allies, friends and social movements to mobilize
together with the civil society outside the UN climate talks in Bonn,
spreading our voice and our true solutions.

*Let us mobilize at COP23 for the convergence of struggles!*

*For Peasant Agroecology and Food Sovereignty!*

 
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