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Dear friend,
For decades, public, peasant, Quilombola, riverine, and Indigenous lands in Brazil were stolen and abused.
In 2004, 600 landless families decided to take back their land occupied by palm oil plantations by DENPASA — Dendê do Pará S/A , a company that pioneered palm oil production in the Amazon during Brazil’s military regime.
Today, the families organized by the Landless Workers’ Movement (MST) control 80% of the land, or 7,000 hectares.
Now, where agribusiness once spread poison and monoculture, there grow food gardens, agroforestry plots, and biodiverse home gardens.
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Abril Vermelho (Red April) Settlement where 600 landless families reclaimed from DENPASA — Dendê do Pará S/A (left photo), produce grown using agroecological methods at the settlement (right photo)
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There are many other success stories of MST members protecting biodiversity and revitalizing local food economies. Families work tirelessly and often overcome natural disasters. Last year, the MST called for international solidarity when flooding ravaged its settlements and production in the south of Brazil. Because of the generous support of people like you, Grassroots International mobilized emergency grants towards the MST to support people-led flood recovery.
This past June, the MST was able to host the 22nd Agroecological Rice Harvest Festival where the flooding occurred a year prior, expressing gratitude for the international solidarity that made this possible [[link removed]] . MST is the largest producer of organic rice in Latin America, with 14,000 tons of organic rice harvested this season.
Furthermore, the MST, along with many of our other social movements, played a key role in organizing more than 20,000 people to attend the People’s Summit this November in the Brazilian Amazon to serve as a counterweight to the false solutions proposed by the UN COP30.
These gatherings and the work of the MST are a testament to the resilience of agroecology in the face of the climate crisis, bringing people together to celebrate social movements’ ability to feed communities at mass scale.
Will you continue to support the critical work of our social movements partners to address the climate crisis?
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Thank you for your solidarity to shine the way forward and build a just future.
In solidarity,
Lydia Simas
Solidarity Program Officer for Brazil
PS: As was expressed in the Declaration that arose from the People’s Summit, “There is no life without nature. There is no life without the ethics and the work of care.” Will you make a donation to support this life-giving work today [[link removed]] ?
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