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! Emissions Impossible: How big meat and dairy are heating up the planet (posted 08 Aug 2018)
Institute for Agriculture & Trade Policy and GRAIN -- 18 Jul 2018
"... cheap meat and dairy comes at a high cost due to social, environmental and animal welfare problems that continue to be under-regulated. In addition, this production is only made possible because the corporations receive an indirect subsidy from taxpayers in the form of government-funded price supports that keep grain cheap. It is past time to regulate the industry and redirect the massive subsidies and other public expenditures that currently support the big meat and dairy conglomerates towards local food and farming systems capable of looking after people and the planet."
NEW! Losing the Serengeti: The Masai Land that was to Run Forever
The Oakland Institute -- 02 Aug 2018
"Based on field research, never publicly-seen-before documents, and an in-depth investigation into Tanzania’s land laws, the report reveals how Tanzania’s Maasai are facing appalling levels of human rights abuses in the name of conservation and the promotion of safari tourism in the Ngorongoro and Loliondo regions."
NEW! Our Natural World is Disappearing. We Have to Save it:
George Monbiot, The Guardian (opinion piece) -- 28 Jun 2018
"The creatures we feared our grandchildren wouldn’t see have vanished. It’s happened faster than even pessimists predicted."
NEW! One Football Pitch of Forests Lost Every Second in 2017
Damian Carrington et al, The Guardian (article) -- 27 Jun 2018
"The world lost more than one football pitch of forest every second in 2017, according to new data from a global satellite survey, adding up to an area equivalent to the whole of Italy over the year."
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