por la tierra que nos alimenta bosques y biodiversidad & soberanía alimentaria

This report by Friends of the Earth International (ATI) documents various community-led struggles and achievements in maintaining biodiversity and food sovereignty across different global territories. It highlights the conflict between industrial monocultures, corporate land grabbing, and traditional agroecological practices, advocating for a model of development that respects natural cycles and ancestral knowledge.

• In Nigeria, the French company Michelin acquired over 3,500 hectares of the Iguobazuwa forest reserve in Edo state for rubber plantations under a 25-year lease, leading to increased hunger, malnutrition, poverty, and forced migration.
• In Uganda, the BIDCO project established over 10,000 hectares of oil palm on Bugala Island in Kalangala, resulting in the destruction of tropical forests and prairies, water depletion, and the displacement of local communities.
• Indonesia has experienced massive deforestation, losing 72% of its natural forests by the beginning of the last century, with current conservation policies often treating nature as a static resource and excluding local communities from their traditional lands.
• In Misiones, Argentina, the expansion of industrial monocultures, specifically tobacco and pine, has caused native forest deforestation and the displacement of peasant and indigenous communities.
• The Agrovida association in Colombia's García Rovira Province has recovered over 100 varieties of potato, 40 of fava bean, and 30 of bean through the use of in situ seed banks and traditional seed exchanges.
• In Costa Rica, the Sonafluca settlement manages a 146-hectare community forest known as the 'Reserva Biológica Dendrobates,' which protects endangered species like the Manu (Minquartia guianensis) and Tostao (Sclerolobium costaricense).
• El Salvador faces a severe food crisis characterized by high vulnerability to natural disasters (88.7% of the territory) and a reliance on imported cereals, while the group 'Los Cuzcatlecos' works to protect native seeds and resist transgenic crops.
• Agriculture in the United States is highly concentrated, with four seed companies controlling 43% of the market and 50% of intellectual property rights, leading to a decline in crop diversity from an average of five varieties per farm in 1900 to one today.
• In Switzerland, Pro Natura-AT launched a 'popular initiative' to force a national referendum on sustainable land use, aiming to preserve agricultural land and limit urban expansion for the next 20 years.

APA

Friends of the Earth International (2011). por la tierra que nos alimenta bosques y biodiversidad & soberanía alimentaria. https://www.foei.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/por-la-tierra-que-nos-alimenta.pdf

Chicago

Friends of the Earth International. por la tierra que nos alimenta bosques y biodiversidad & soberanía alimentaria. 2011. https://www.foei.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/por-la-tierra-que-nos-alimenta.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{friendsoftheearthinternational2011por, author = {{Friends of the Earth International}}, title = {{por la tierra que nos alimenta bosques y biodiversidad \& soberanía alimentaria}}, institution = {Friends of the Earth International}, year = {2011}, month = jul, url = {https://www.foei.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/por-la-tierra-que-nos-alimenta.pdf}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }