Doble riesgo: La amenaza creciente que implican para la soberanía alimentaria y la agroecología las falsas soluciones climáticas

The report argues that 'nature-based solutions' and carbon offsetting schemes promoted by governments and over 1,500 large companies are 'false climate solutions' that risk causing mass land grabbing and dispossession. It highlights that the land requirements for corporate net-zero promises are immense, citing examples from Nestlé and Shell. The document further asserts that these mechanisms benefit agribusiness, fossil fuel, and tech companies while forcing small-scale farmers into intensive practices, ultimately threatening to co-opt and weaken agroecology, which is presented as the genuine transformative alternative for food production and climate cooling.

• Nature-based solutions and carbon offsetting schemes are characterized as 'false solutions' that do not represent real emission reductions but rather public commitments to offset emissions by a future date, often driven by over 1,500 large companies across the oil, gas, and food industries.
• The land requirements for corporate net-zero promises pose a significant risk of land grabbing and dispossession for Indigenous peoples, peasant farmers, and rural communities. For instance, Nestlé's offsetting plans could require planting trees on at least 4.4 million hectares annually, and Shell's plans for nature-based solutions would require an area nearly the size of Brazil.
• The use of soil carbon capture for offsetting bonds benefits large agribusiness, fossil fuel, and technology companies through the mass acquisition of land and data, while forcing small-scale and peasant producers to adopt intensive agricultural practices for decades.
• Agroecology, based on resource efficiency, resilience, social equity, and environmental responsibility, is presented as a transformative way to produce food and cool the planet, but it is at risk of being co-opted or weakened by the pursuit of nature-based solutions.

APA

Friends of the Earth International (n.d.). Doble riesgo: La amenaza creciente que implican para la soberanía alimentaria y la agroecología las falsas soluciones climáticas. https://www.foei.org/es/publicaciones/doble-riesgo-soluciones-basadas-en-la-naturaleza/

Chicago

Friends of the Earth International. Doble riesgo: La amenaza creciente que implican para la soberanía alimentaria y la agroecología las falsas soluciones climáticas. n.d. https://www.foei.org/es/publicaciones/doble-riesgo-soluciones-basadas-en-la-naturaleza/.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{friendsoftheearthinternationalnddoble, author = {{Friends of the Earth International}}, title = {{Doble riesgo: La amenaza creciente que implican para la soberanía alimentaria y la agroecología las falsas soluciones climáticas}}, institution = {Friends of the Earth International}, url = {https://www.foei.org/es/publicaciones/doble-riesgo-soluciones-basadas-en-la-naturaleza/}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }