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. 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.
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