In times of climate crisis, the Landless Workers' Movement in Brazil shows that agroecology is a key model to save the world from destruction. Our special envoy, Andre Vieira in Southern Brazil tell us the following story. teleSUR
00:00In times of climate crisis, the landless workers' movement in Brazil shows that agroecology is a key model to save the world from destruction.
00:08Our special envoys in southern Brazil tell us the following story.
00:15The settlement is located in the state of Paraná, southern Brazil.
00:18The name is a tribute to a popular revolt known as the Contested War when between 1914 and 1918 farmers and native people opposed the interests of multinationals in the territorial dispute.
00:35It is a region that responds, that rebels, that moves, that does not accept injustice.
00:41This settlement is also a reference in agroecology, which respects the environment and humanity in a model of food production free of pesticides and transgenics.
00:54Part of the knowledge applied here came from Venezuela.
00:57Jocini was one of the students of the Paulo Freire Latin American School of Agroecology located in Berenas, in the Venezuelan plains.
01:05We were there on board with the idea, with the ideal of Commander Hugo Chávez, of that great fatherland.
01:19Since then, we have had the opportunity to get to know this beautiful country that is Venezuela,
01:25and the opportunity to study agroecology engineering there and bring some of the knowledge we learned there to Brazil,
01:32and build these proposals that we have here.
01:35While the agribusiness deforests throws poison on the plantation to increase their profits,
01:41here they built a cooperative in 2010 to produce healthy food.
01:46At the moment, we deliver food for 103 schools in the capital.
01:54We centralize all the products here are natural, and come from the families,
02:01and we divide about 25 tons of food per week.
02:06We understand that we can't do anything alone.
02:09Our work in the movement is collecting, from the occupation of the land,
02:14but also the organization, the settlement, and it goes through cooperation.
02:19The settlement also houses native plant and vegetable nurseries, a biofactory,
02:25the Brazilian headquarters of the Latin American School of Agroecology,
02:29and a health post that makes us popular and allopathic medicine.
02:33The forest is a living pharmacy.
02:37We need to know, respect, and help preserve.
02:42In times of climate crisis, these landless movement farmers show that it is possible
02:47to postpone the end of the world with agroecology.
02:50The future is ancestral.
02:51André Vieira e Sebastião Soto, Telesur, Brasil.
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