Concertation Indépendante
Cible géographique:
Brésil
Area of divergence
The Dialogue did not reveal particular divergences; rather, it insisted on a recognition of the diverse realities, experiences, practices and knowledge that are intimately related to particular environments and territorial designations. For example, a strong message from several representatives of indigenous communities was they were requesting no assistance, no technical support, no intervention other than, simply, being left alone. The life systems like theirs -and many others that were depicted- have existed for generations and could do for generations more if they were left to continue, wi
... Lire la suiteth an end to encroachment, violence, dislocation and invasion. Their capacity to do so, is of course is dependent on the forest that they protected for centuries. For others where there has been disruption to livelihoods then strategies to recover and revive memory and practices are required. The fate of fishing communities impacted by, for example, dam construction, siltation, pollution has meant that fishing livelihoods must be complemented by new food producing strategies in the territories, a situation complicated by the demise of public policies. Residents of agrarian reform settlements and other agro extractive territories are similarly hampered by unfavourable policy, and the need for progressive, not for profit financial support and technical assistance is articulated. Importantly, the stakeholders of the dialogue represent communities ostensibly protected by conventions to which FAO is signatory, and speak on themes relevant to SDGs for which FAO has responsibility (SDG 2 zero hunger; SDG 5 gender equality; SDG 6 clean water and sanitation; SDG 12 responsible consumption and production; SDG 14 life under water; SDG 15 Life on land. This serves to further highlight the indivisibility of future, sustainable agrifood systems from upholding the rights of farmers. This is enshrined in the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Peasants and Other People Working in Rural Areas ; in the Treaties for Indigenous peoples, and in Brazil specific laws for agrarian reform, agroextractive communities and Quilombolas. From the accounts of stakeholders; however, the trajectory, is a regressive one in relation to the key articles of this commitment (these include equality, women's participation, right to nature, civil and political rights, justice, labour rights, food sovereignty, right to land, right to seeds, right to biodiversity; right to water and clean water systems; right to health and social security; right to housing; right to education; cultural rights, traditional knowledge and traditional cultural expressions). Traditional knowledge and its link to sustainability, food security and climate change Impacts is acknowledged by FAO and its Traditional Knowledge report recognises these “are increasingly endangered by large-scale commercialization of agriculture, population dynamics, land-use/cover changes and the impacts of climate change”. If there is a divergence, it is a broader systemic divergence from the harmful, predatory and wasteful model of commified agroindustrial production. It is an insistence that discourses and misguided attempts to reconcile the interests of sustainable, food producing communities with deep, cultural, spiritual; and practical territorial links with commercialised monocultures and large scale mineral and energy complexes is at best illusory, and at worst genocidal in the view of participants. Amidst a traumatic year of pandemic and, on evidence, yet more missed goals and failed promises in relation to sustainability, human rights and climate change across the globe; the stakeholders invite a formal response from FAO to the violent disruption of agrifood systems in globally important biomes that are articulated here. It is clear that the communities, represented here, will continue to resist further detriment and destruction; but the efforts are costing lives, compromising production, and threatening biodiverse ecosystems. They should no longer be expected to provide 'resilience' to shocks and stresses that are structured, and are predictable in dominant agroindustrialised systems and related environmental changes. These stresses include but are not restricted to climate change. The many immediate problems are articulated above. We modestly ask that this Independent Dialogue begins a critically important dialogue with FAO, that the articulation of violent abuses underlying agroindustrial advance is heightened and addressed through this dialogue and that an ending of the many transgressions can allow us to continue and further the important transformation towards a socially and environmentally committed agrifood system within and beyond the contours of our discussions. Lire moins
Piste(s) d'Action: 1, 3, 4
Mots-clés : Data & Evidence, Environment and Climate, Finance, Governance, Human rights, Innovation, Policy, Women & Youth Empowerment