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.
NEW! Amazon Women In Action: How an Amazonian leader stood up to Carbon Marketeering on Her Munduruku Lands and Resources
PLANT - 08 Mar 2018
"She said that they were tired of outsiders’ constant encroaching on their ancestral lands, making empty promises, gouging the earth, creating conflict and deceiving the people. To make their case clear, she waved a burduna (a wooden hunting club) close to the Company director’s neck to show that the Munduruku Nation would always defend “the world.” (see video clip on this blog)
NEW! Latin America and the Caribbean Adopts Its First Binding Regional Agreement to Protect Rights of Access in Environmental Matters: Ninth Meeting of the Negotiating Committee on Principle 10 of the Rio Declaration Approved the Final Text in Costa Rica -- 04 Mar 2018
“... in order to build peaceful, more just, caring and inclusive societies, in which human rights are protected and the protection of the planet and its natural resources is guaranteed.”
See also: Two Dozen Latin American Countries Sign Agreement to Protect Environmental Defenders
MONGABAY: News & Inspiration from Nature's Frontline -- 14 Mar 2018
NEW! The Inter-American Court of Human Rights Recognizes a Right to a Healthy Environment in Recent Advisory Opinion (See complete Spanish text of Court's Advisory Opinion):
Jose Felix Pinto-Bazurco, Columbia Law School, Sabin Center for Climate Change Law -- 23 Feb 2018
"A new opinion of the Court, made by a request from Colombia, is the first to recognize an autonomous right to a healthy environment and nations’ extraterritorial responsibility for environmental damages under the American Convention on Human Rights (the Convention)."
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