Given the meagre outcome of ICARRD+20, it becomes even more important to return to the final declaration of the ‘Forum of Peoples and Social Movements: United for Land, Water, Territories and Dignity’, held on 22-23 February.
Popular Agrarian Reform Now!
www.foodsovereignty.org/icarrd20-mus...
Yesterday marked the end of #ICARRD+20, and the social movements in Cartagena rejected the official declaration.
Land redistribution, Recognition, Restitution and Regulation must form the axes of an intergal agrarian reform, they said.
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#AgrarianReform
🌾 Territories under the stewardship of Indigenous Peoples, peasants and other rural communities are among the most biodiverse and resilient ecosystems on Earth.
On the 4th day of #ICARRD20 in Cartagena, Colombia, social movements highlight their role for transformative Agrarian Reform! 👇
Despite their crucial role, small-scale fisherfolk continue to bemarginalised indecision-making processes. Their inclusion is key to ensuring rights and justice.
Agrarian Reform cannot remain limited to land, but must fully recognise marine and coastal territories as spaces of life!
#ICARRD20
AGRICULTURAL REFORM is a historic debt owed to the people. We need to urgently halt corporate encroachment on territories, land and water.
ICARRD+20 has begun in Cartagena, Colombia, and the popular struggle for comprehensive #AgrarianReform for the people and with #EnvironmentalJustice is underway.
🌱✊ In the North and the South, the West and the East, we need agrarian reforms that recognise peoples’ rights to sovereignty in their lands, waters and territories.
On the last day of the Forum of the Peoples in Cartagena, this is the agrarian reform we need to build 👇
#AgrarianReform #ICARRD20
The Forum of Peoples continues in Cartagena, Colombia!
Social movements reaffirm that without strong organisation, internationalist solidarity and collective action, there will be no transformative #AgrarianReform that ensures peace.
#ICARRD20
#PopularAgrarianReformNOW
The Forum of Peoples and Social Movements has begun!
Hundreds of social movements from around the world are converging in Cartagena, Colombia, and demand a new vision for agrarian reform and rural development, with territories at the heart of life.
#ICARRD20
#PopularAgrarianReformNOW
🌱 On 22–23 Feb, social movements from around the world will gather to call for #PopularAgrarianReformNow in Cartagena, Colombia for the Social Movements Forum.
✊ Ahead of #ICARRD20, this will be a space to build alliances, proposals and solidarity.
Why this space is important for FoEI👇
Did you know that debt-for-nature swaps are a trap?
Proponents sell them as a solution to environmental destruction & a way for countries in the South to alleviate their debt.
This is not the case. As the UN CBD addresses this issue on Feb 16-19 in Rome, find out why:
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According to the latest IPBES report, less than 1% of publicly reporting companies meaningfully disclose biodiversity impacts.
Allowing companies to take voluntary action has failed.
There is a simple truth that the report admits: regulation works.
Believing that companies are unaware of their impact on biodiversity is a misinterpretation of reality. The problem isn’t ignorance. It’s the fact that destruction remains profitable.
Our analysis on the Business and Biodiversity Assessment by the @ipbes.net
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With a new chair elected for the #PlasticsTreaty negotiations we’ll continue to demand a treaty and process centred on justice and those most affected
We call for the Chair to guide the process towards outcomes that are science-based and rooted in human rights, environmental health, and justice 📜🧑⚖️
📸 Credit: Víctor Barro
Another round of negotiations for a #PlasticsTreaty closes while the crisis deepens
We need a strong treaty that covers the full lifecycle of plastics and ends the global waste trade. We need a process free from corporate capture.
99% of plastics come from fossil fuels like oil and natural gas
To #BreakFreeFromPlastic we need a #PlasticsTreaty that covers the full life cycle of plastics, from production to consumption and waste management
The 3rd part of the 5th round of the #PlasticsTreaty negotiations resumes in Geneva, Switzerland tomorrow for the election of a new Chair ✍️
We’re looking for
⚖️ Fairness
🔎 Transparency
👥 Committment to the interest and needs of peoples
#INC53
Some GOOD news today 💥
The EU Parliament sent the #EUMercosur deal to the Court of Justice for review!
This puts approval on hold while judges assess legal red flags that threaten EU autonomy, democracy, climate & social protections.
One more barrier to #StopEUMercosur in its tracks!
Tomorrow, 17 January, the EU–Mercosur Agreement is set to be signed in Asunción, Paraguay.
ATALC warns that this agreement paves the way for the expansion of agribusiness, deforestation, and extractive dependency, deepening inequalities and violating food sovereignty and the rights of our peoples.
🚨EU-Mercosur trade deal signed after 25+ years of secretive negotiations
We are steadfast in our opposition to the current EU-Mercosur deal as it will transfer enormous powers to transnational corporations and undermine peoples’ rights to:
🧑🌾work
🥕food
🌱ecologically sound environment
🌏safe climate
🚨BREAKING: EU leaders just approved the toxic #EUMercosur deal ignoring 25 years of dissent from farmers ➕ civil society ➕ trade unions ➕ Indigenous Peoples
It’s the 1st time in EU trade history a deal has been pushed through without all Member States’ consent, overruling major European countries.
"Friends of the Earth Latin America and the Caribbean (ATALC) denounces and condemns the military aggression of the United States, which violates the sovereignty and self-determination of the Venezuelan people."
Statement of our ATALC region on the US attack on Venezuela:
atalc.org/2026/01/03/s...
On 12/8, a court in The Hague ordered Ecuador to pay US$220 million to oil company Chevron-Texaco.
‘We ask the government not to interfere in all this, because Chevron owes us $9.5 billion and we are going to seize those assets,’ said UDAPT (@udapt.bsky.social) executive coordinator Donald Moncayo.
The new edition of the Nyéléni newsletter is out, dedicated entirely to the 3rd Nyéléni Global Forum, held in September in Kandy, Sri Lanka.
The newsletter includes testimonials from numerous participants, diverse perspectives and experiences.
Read and download it in pdf format👇
🚨BREAKING France calls to delay crunch Mercosur vote
We remain steadfast in opposition to the #EUMercosur free-trade deal which only serves to prop up corporate power
and undermine peoples’ rights to work, food and an ecologically sound environment and climate.
www.politico.eu/article/fran...
Friends of the Earth International (FOEI) has been holding its Biennial General Assembly in Dhaka, Bangladesh, since Saturday.
Around 80 people from 45 countries and member groups, and from all FOEI structures, will be setting the federation's course for the next two years until 11 December.
Credit: The Artivist Network
At the #PeoplesSummit in Belém, Brazil, we turned out in the tens of thousands, representing millions, in internationalist solidarity.
We continue to build unity through our diversity.
For climate justice, people-centred solutions and a #FreePalestine, peoples of the world, unite!
The Peoples' Summit brought together over 70k people from local, national, and intl movements with a worldview guided by popular internationalism and exchanges of knowledge and wisdom, building bonds of solidarity, struggle and cooperation amongst peoples.
Read the declaration here👇
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JOB ALERT - International Program officer position!
This position is a maternity cover for 6 months for 30h/week based in Amsterdam.
Applications until December 11, 2025.
Join the world’s largest grassroots environmental federation and a wonderful international team!
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