PLANT is a catalyst for indigenous communities and smallholder farmers to speak for themselves, their eco-systems and Seed & Food Sovereignty, instead of others speaking for them.
PLANT works with partners in Brazilian Amazonia and in sub-Saharan Africa.
“Human and Earth Rights mirror the faces of the vulnerable;
They are a discomfort to the powerful;
They are continuously translated into policy by the struggles of the excluded;
They bring justice closer to our world, our common home . . .” PLANT
January 28th, 2019
Global Launch of the International Year of
Indigenous Languages
LANGUAGE IS PIVOTAL IN THE AREAS OF HUMAN RIGHTS PROTECTION, GOOD GOVERNANCE, PEACE BUILDING, RECONCILIATION, AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
“Of the almost 7,000 existing languages, the majority have been created and are spoken by indigenous peoples who represent the greater part of the world’s cultural diversity. Yet many of these languages are disappearing at an alarming rate, as the communities speaking them are confronted with assimilation, enforced relocation, educational disadvantage, poverty, illiteracy, migration and other forms of discrimination and human rights violations" https://en.iyil2019.org/role-of-language/
NEW! A New Monitoring Tool for Pan Amazonia
March 21st, 2019 marked the launching date of the first ever monitoring tool for land cover and use across the whole Amazonian region: MapBiomas Amazônia:
MapBiomas Amazônia is the result of a partnership between the Amazonian Georeferenced Socio-Environmental Information Network (Raisg) (Portuguese, Spanish & English) and MapBiomas, a land use monitoring platform. Thanks to the extraordinary analysis and cross-checking of data by the group of international civil society organizations, we know that between 2000 and 2017, less than two decades into the third millennium, the Pan Amazonian region lost 29.5 million hectares of forest – an area roughly the size of Ecuador, or four times the size of Ireland.
Beto Ricardo, RAISG’s coordinator, explains that the newly launched platform marks an important advance in constructing and promoting an integrated vision of the Amazonian region -- an inter-connected organism shared by 8 countries and French Guiana, with socio-environmental issues of immense significance. There are some 400 indigenous peoples, shared river basins, connectivity between conservation units, and changes in land use that deeply affect the whole region and the planet’s connection to the largest tropical forest. The changes are caused by deforestation, the disruption of waterways by dam construction, the inroads of extractive industries, agri-industry’s voracious need for more and more cleared land, and the spread of pesticides.
The MapBiomas Amazônia includes 21 classes of cover and land use in six different biomes: Amazon, Cerrado, Pantanal, Andes, Chaco-Chiquitano and Tucumano in Bolivia. This extension extends from the Andean glaciers to the forest formations of the Amazon plains.
NEW! Making a Killing: Holding Corporations to Account for Land and Human Rights Violations
TRÓCAIRE - 06 March 2019
“The human rights framework governing businesses has not kept pace with the modern economy. We live in a globalised world, where business knows no border. Countries, particularly in the developing world, compete for investment from companies often richer and more powerful than they are. The world’s top 10 corporations have a combined revenue equivalent to more than the 180 ‘poorest’ countries. This has led to a global sell-off of the natural resources the world’s poorest people rely on."
NEW! Hands Off Mother Earth: Manifesto Against Geoengineering
The Geoengineering Monitor -- Oct 2018
"We are committed to protecting Mother Earth and defending our rights, territories and peoples against anyone attempting to take control of the global thermostat or the vital natural cycles of planetary functions and ecosystems."
PLANT (Partners for the Land & Agricultural Needs of Traditional Peoples)
E-mail: plantpartners@gmail.com
PO Box 276 • Shepherdstown, WV 25443, USA
Tel. 304 876 2288
Manaus-Centro, Amazonas 69020-030, BRASIL
PLANT is a USA 501(c)(3) non-profit organization