Climate and Ecological Justice

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In Haiti, more than half of the population lives below the poverty line, making roughly one dollar per day, and nearly half face problems related to malnutrition. With regard to agriculture, small local producers struggle to compete with big industries. However, intensive planting has caused soil erosion, at the same time that the forest has fallen to 2% of total land area. Poverty resulting from job insecurity and lack of jobs in general has led many to relocate to the Dominican Republic.

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Drought is a natural physical phenomenon that frequently and regularly afflicts Northeast Brazil. For a long time, drought has been harming Brazil’s semi-arid regions, mainly by destroying local ecosystems, which causes significant losses in biodiversity.

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In collaboration with the Red Latinoamericana de Investigaciones en Agricultura Urbana (AGUILA) and Antonio Nunez Jimenez Foundation

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In collaboration with the Association of Teachers of Life Science and Earth (ATLSE).

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This conference will touch on themes such as the ecological crises and citizen alternatives, strategies towards a more sustainable environment, fossil fuel conflicts, eco-socialism, and citizen mobilization to combat shale gas and the Tar sands as well as the ecological debt. In sum, it will be provide an opportunity to build a movement!

Dates: April 15 to 17, 2011

Location: Montreal, Canada

WITH :

We worked with the Yeoville Stakeholders Forum, regrouping 23 member organizations that were brought together twice every month. The forum encouraged the creation of community frameworks within organizations and was recently involved in the creation of an urban agriculture project.