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Amazing Link to Our History’: Farmers Reclaiming Their Heritage One Seed at a Time 
- The Guardian, 23 May 2022


Amazon in Serious Danger - June 2011


Call to Sign the Darar Appeal against Landgrabbing -- Until 07 Oct 2011


Distinguished Scientist: Flawed Science of GMOs Jeopardizes Future Generations
Ken Roseboro, Organic & Non-GMO Report -- 01 Mar 2012


Humanity - Ecological Collapses
The Ecologist Interview with Theologian Martin Palmer -- 27 Feb 2012


Protect the Human Right to Water at the United Nations (Action)
Food and Water Watch -- Through mid-June


Say YES to the Rights of Earth Mother (Action)
Rights of Mother Earth Campaign & Global Alliance for the Rights of Nature -- Through 04 June 2012


Time to Act: Rio+20 - What are the Options When "Business as Usual" is Not an Option? (Action)


Brazil: The Carbon Credit Bonanza
Sue Branford, LAB (Latin America Bureau) -- 15 March 2012


Celestial Green Ventures: Contract "Not Valid" Says Brazil's National Indian Foundation, FUNAI
Chris Lang, REDD-Monitor -- 15 Mar 2012


Celestial Green Ventures: 20 Million Hectares of REDD Carbon Offsets in Brazil
Chris Lang, REDD-Monitor -- 13 Mar 2012


Amazonas Governor Urges Brazil to Adopt REDD +
Update from PLANT Staff On-Site in Amazonas State, Brazil -- 27 Mar 2012


A terra é dos índios. E o carbono, é de quem? (In Portuguese)
Agenciapublica (Brazil) -- 09 Mar 2012


Courageous Mother Takes On Monsanto (Video)
Pesticide Action Network -- 2012


FUNAI: “Os contratos com indígenas não têm validade” (In Portuguese)
Agenciapublica (Brazil) -- 13 Mar 2012


PLANT Report: Current Risks to Amazonian Traditional Peoples
PLANT (Partners for the Land & Agricultural Needs of Traditional Peoples)-- 15 Mar 2012


Food Crisis: Causes, Consequences and Alternatives
Esther Vivas, International Viewpoint -- 2008


Support the New Federal Labeling Bill 
Center for Food Safety, USA


Modernizing African Agriculture: Who Benefits? [Sign On]Statement by Civil Society in Africa -- Sign by 29 May 2013       [Portuguese Version]


Cardinal Peter Turkson: Do Not Participate in the World Food Prize! -- thru 16 Oct 2013
Cardinal Turkson, President of the Vatican's Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, will be a featured speaker at the World Food Prize event in Des Moines, IA, USA, taking place from 16-18 Oct 2013.  This year's event honors three executives/scientists from the biotechnology industry - Monsanto, Syngenta, and the Institute for Plant Biotechnology Outreach - for their prominent role in developing and promoting GMOs.  The Cardinal's presence will hand the industry a powerful propaganda tool to claim that the Vatican supports GMOs.
Sign the Petition Urging Cardinal Turkson Not to Attend the World Food Prize! 
PLANT Letter to Cardinal Turkson on His Presence at the World Food Prize 

Pull UK Funds from 'Colonialist' Africa Food Scheme, NGOs Say 
Thompson Reuters -- 03 Jun 2013


Earth's Most Threatened Tribe: The Awa Tribe of the Brazilian Amazon [Video and Action] 
Survival International -- Mar 2013


African Regional Plant Variety Protection Draft Legislation Raises Protest 
Intellectual Property Watch -- 05 Apr 2013


Land Ceilings: Reigning in Land Grabbers or Dumbing Down the Debate?
GRAIN -- Feb 2013


Vanderbilt University Divests from Land Grab in Africa 
The Oakland Institute -- Feb 2013


How to Invest Justly in Small-Scale Agriculture 
Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy -- Feb 2013


Land Grabbing for Biofuels Must Stop
GRAIN -- Feb 2013


Seed Giants vs. U.S. Farmers 
Center for Food Safety and Save Our Seeds -- 2013


The G8 and Land Grabs in Africa 
GRAIN -- Mar 2013


The Earth Statement 2015


Food Sovereignty is a True Solution to the Global Climate Crisis 
Call to Action for COP21 in Paris (30 Nov- 11 Dec), La Via Campesina -- 03 Sep 2015


Take Action: Stop EcoEnergy's Land Grab in Bagamoyo, Tanzania 
Mark Curtis & Richard Mbunda -- 18 Mar 2015


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."

Stop the Exploitation of Amazonian Peoples and Their Land! 
2019 is the UN International Year of Indigenous Languages, more than half of which are currently endangered. The critical risks confronting indigenous peoples hold up a mirror to encroachment tactics, often couched in a “development ideology” which commodifies the environment and, in so doing, overrides the wisdom of ancient cultures bonded to a living and spiritually imbued milieu.  

PLANT’s message to the Vatican Synod on Amazonia addresses just one of these major risks, namely, the reduction of ancient and unique eco-systems to merely “environmental services” for carbon trading.  The traditional peoples who are inseparable from these eco-systems, are expected to become enabling servants of such schemes.  What is happening in the Amazonian Region is happening in every endangered eco-system on every continent where vulnerable peoples are most affected.
 
Our aim is to add 2,680 signatures to the statement -- a symbolic number, which corresponds to the estimated number of endangered indigenous languages worldwide. 
Please join us in this effort of solidarity with our Amazonian sisters and brothers! 


English Version of the Statement with resources Here 
Sign On to the Statement in English Here
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Em Português Aqui 
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