By INNABUYOG-GABRIELA
www.nordis.net

LAST OF FOUR PARTS

In the face of the greater challenges posed by the food crisis and climate change, the people now have to struggle even more to confront oppressive structures and institutions.

As we, women, face the greatest burden from calamities, war, crises and displacement, we must struggle harder against patriarchy, fundamentalisms and extremisms, and endeavor for full participation and involvement.

As we, peasants, lose our livelihood and land, and are forcibly exiled from our communities, we have to fight much harder against the onslaught of corporate land grabbing and for our rights.

As we, agricultural workers, continue to slave in pesticide-drenched corporate farms and plantations, we need to struggle even more for our rights, jobs, lives and livelihoods.

As we, the fisher people, are further displaced by corporate fishing and intensive industrial aquaculture as well as corporate coastal and offshore development projects, we have to struggle even more to conserve, gain access, manage and control marine and aquatic resources as well as fishing implements.

As we, indigenous peoples, lose our ancestral domains due to land grabbing and corporate exploitation, we have to defend our indigenous knowledge, ancestral history and legends, culture and our very lives.

As we, the working people as consumers, deprived of nutritious, safe, adequate, culturally appropriate food and pushed to unnatural and unsustainable lifestyles, we must strive even more to tackle the negative effects of all crises and, exert our right to food and our responsibilities as conscious, ethical and ecological consumers.

We will be resolute in our struggle to put people and the planet first over profits. We will work together to regenerate and restore nature and society.

We have gathered now to further strengthen and consolidate our movements to advance food sovereignty, gender justice and climate justice. We will work with full dedication and commitment to:

1. Fully resist corporate monopoly control over food and agriculture;

2. Advocate for the establishment of compensatory funds to support communities’ capacity to address the impact of climate change;

3. Advance genuine agrarian, fisheries, forestry and pastoral reforms that ensure gender justice and the rights of women to land and productive resources;

4. Assert food self-sufficiency in our societies and stop land use conversions;

5. Advance the rights of indigenous peoples over ancestral land and domains as well as protect and uphold indigenous knowledge and wisdom as basis of ecological agriculture and sustainable development;

6. Defend the rights of marginalized communities, ethnic minorities and Dalits.

7. Stop the killings of and violence against peasants, agricultural workers, fisherfolks and indigenous peoples struggling for their peoples’ rights;

8. Ensure market access for the poor and marginalized people, and fair price for their harvests;

9. Promote local knowledge particularly the nurturing values and expand biodiversity-based ecological food production as foundation for food self-sufficiency;

10. Promote and support community-based seed and grain conservation systems;

11. Build stronger links between consumers and small food producers to promote the production and consumption of affordable, local, ecologically produced and safe food, and to work towards ethical consumption and sustainable lifestyles;

12. Protect the rights and well-being of agricultural workers and their communities, and ensure fair wages for them;

13. Promote pro-people, farmer-led research technologies and institutions;

14. Resist imperialist globalization, fundamentalism, feudalism, patriarchy, militarization and, autocratic and
corrupt governments, and end racial, caste and all other forms of discrimination.

15. Endorse the People’s Protocol on Climate Change which provides the framework of our demands for climate justice based on the principles of social justice, sovereignty, respect for the environment, gender justice and, responsibility and call for an economic system that is sovereign, socially just, democratic and ecologically sustainable.

We claim our right and, the right of all excluded and marginalized people, to restore and recover the regenerative ability of nature by reorienting our methods of production, consumption and marketing. We deviate from the present destructive processes of greedy exploitation of humans and nature to ensure the long-term survival of all life forms. We endeavor to heal the earth.

We call for the people’s right to food and uphold People’s Convention on Food Sovereignty as the sustainable framework for food production and distribution, and for national and international trade and investment policies. agricultural workers and their communities, and ensure fair wages for them;

1. Promote pro-people, farmer-led research technologies and institutions;

2. Resist imperialist globalization, fundamentalism, feudalism, patriarchy, militarization and, autocratic and corrupt governments, and end racial, caste and all other forms of discrimination.

3. Endorse the People’s Protocol on Climate Change which provides the framework of our demands for climate justice based on the principles of social justice, sovereignty, respect for the environment, gender justice and, responsibility and call for an economic system that is sovereign, socially just, democratic and ecologically sustainable.

We claim our right and, the right of all excluded and marginalized people, to restore and recover the regenerative ability of nature by reorienting our methods of production, consumption and marketing. We deviate from the present destructive processes of greedy exploitation of humans and nature to ensure the long-term survival of all life forms. We endeavor to heal the earth.

We call for the people’s right to food and uphold People’s Convention on Food Sovereignty as the sustainable framework for food production and distribution, and for national and international trade and investment policies. # nordis.net