African Centre for Biodiversity

The African Centre for Biodiversity (ACB) is a research and advocacy organisation working towards food sovereignty and agroecology in Africa, with a focus on biosafety, seed systems and agricultural biodiversity. The organisation is committed to dismantling inequalities and resisting corporate industrial expansion in Africa’s food and agriculture systems. More information can be found at www.acbio.org.za.

Jesús Vázquez Negrón, Organización Boricua de Agricultura Ecológica

Jesús Vázquez Negrón of Organización Boricua de Agricultura Ecológica is a Puerto Rican organizer, advocate, popular educator and activist that works in the intersections of environmental justice, agroecology, food sovereignty and climate justice at the national and international level. He has been working collectively for the past 12 years with rural, urban and coastal communities organizing mutual support efforts, political education workshops, dialogues, capacity trainings and just recovery initiatives with sovereign family farms where people work and live. He is the National Coordinator of Organización Boricuá of Ecological Agriculture of Puerto Rico, a 30 year old national platform composed by farmers, peasants, farm workers and food sovereignty activist that promote and practice agroecology as a tool to achieve food sovereignty and social justice on the archipelago. He works and collaborates internationally in the Latinamerican Coordinator of Rural Organizations, the Food Sovereignty Alliance, La Vía Campesina and the Climate Justice Alliance.

Olga Domené-Painenao, Slow Food Agroecologists in Action

Olga is a leader of the Slow Food Agroecologists in Action Convivium and Ph.D candidate in Ecology and Sustainable Development at Colegio de la Frontera Sur (Ecosur), Unidad de San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Chiapas, México.

Maíra Araújo Cândida, MST

Maíra was born in Minas Gerais, Brazil, and throughout their life, dedicated themselves to various works with the Landless Movement (MST). As a militant of the MST, Maíra worked together with families in various areas of Agrarian Reform with agroecology, rural housing, rural health, and the organization of peasant women. Subsequently, Maíra acted as a technical advisor in architecture and urban planning, together with displaced families affected by the collapse of a mining waste dam, in the process of collective resettlement. Maíra is currently working on their PhD in Ecology and Sustainable Development at El Colegio de la Frontera Sur, Mexico.

Valeria Garcia, Red de Semillas Libres

Red de Semillas Libres is an environmental and rural non-governmental organization, formed in 1994, that supports indigenous, Afro-Colombian and peasant organizations in Colombia, in actions that seek the protection and local control of territories, natural resources, biodiversity, sustainable productive systems, sovereignty and food autonomy of rural populations and communities.

Fern Anuenue Holland, Hawai’i Alliance for Progressive Action

Fern is a member of HAPA. HAPA originated as part of the movement toward fair and sustainable food systems. Fair and Sustainable Food Systems remains a core program area; however, we have since expanded our work to support a broader progressive-policy platform that includes social and economic equity. HAPA’s strategy is coalition-based, and implements a diversity of approaches. These include grassroots organizing, policy advocacy, and community education.

Farmworker Association of Florida

The Farmworker Association of Florida (FWAF) is a statewide, grassroots, community-based, non-profit, farmworker membership organization with over 10,000 Haitian, Hispanic, and African American members and five offices in the state of Florida with a 35 year history of working for social and environmental justice with farmworkers. The Farmworker Association of Florida’s long-standing mission is to build power among farmworker and rural low-income communities, to respond to and gain control over the social, political, economic, workplace, health, and environmental justice issues that impact their lives.

Patti Naylor, Family Farm Defenders and PAN

Patti Naylor is a member of Family Farm Defenders, and is on the board of Pesticide Action Network North America. Patti Naylor, Churdan Iowa, USA. Patti’s farm is surrounded by thousands of acres of industrial, pesticide-intensive GMO corn monoculture. She and her husband George have been transitioning from conventional (non-GMO) to a diversified system of organic corn and soybeans, oats and hay, with cider apples, chickens, culinary and medicinal herbs. They practice ecological pest management and maintain pollinator & native prairie habitat. Patti is active in advocacy for food & farm justice, food sovereignty and is a member of La Via Campesina and the US Food Sovereignty Alliance, and is the North America rep to the Civil Society Mechanism of the UN Committee on Food Security. She also sits on the Board of Directors of PAN North America.

Sikowis, AKA Christine Nobiss, Great Plains Action Society

Sikowis, aka, Christine Nobiss is Plains Cree/Saulteaux of the George Gordon First Nation in Canada, grew up in the city of Winnipeg, and has been living in Iowa City for 15 years. She has been decolonizing for over twenty years and done everything from founding Indigenous-led resistance camps to high-level national organizing. In 2014, she founded Great Plains Action Society. She holds a Masters Degree in Religious Studies from the University of Iowa. As a mother of three, she puts a lot of effort into writing, organizing and speaking on the climate crisis, environmental collapse, colonial-capitalism, and the US political system for the sake of her children.

PAN Africa
Pesticide Action Network (PAN) Africa is a network of information and actions for the control of pesticide. It is part of Pesticides Action Network International, a global coalition of volunteer groups, civil society organizations, research institutes, universities and citizens working for the adoption of safe environmental practices in replacement of the use of dangerous chemical pesticide.

Biowatch South Africa
Biowatch South Africa is an environmental justice NGO, established in 1999. We work with smallholder farmers, other civil society organisations and government to ensure that people have control over their food, agricultural processes and resources, and other natural resources, within a biodiverse, agroecological and sustainable system. 

PAN India

Pesticide Action Network (PAN) India was founded as an independent national non profit organisation in India in 2013. It works in collaboration with Pesticide Action Network (PAN) International community, sharing knowledge and expertise to eliminate the human and environmental hazards caused by pesticides. The organization is focusing to bring changes in the way chemical pesticides are used, harming life and environment. It aims to help farmers to reduce dependence on toxic chemicals and to increase the use of sustainable alternatives to chemical pest control based on scientific knowledge. More information can be found at https://pan-india.org/.

Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas/ Peasant Movement of the Philippines

Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas (KMP) is a democratic and militant movement of landless peasants, small farmers, farm workers, rural youth and peasant women. It has effective leadership over a total of 1.3 million rural people with 65 provincial chapters and 15 regional chapters nationwide. More information can be found at http://kilusangmagbubukid.weebly.com/about.html.

MASIPAG

MASIPAG is a farmer-led network of people’s organizations, NGOs and scientists in the Philippines working towards the sustainable use and management of biodiversity through farmers’ control of genetic and biological resources, agricultural production and associated knowledge. More information can be found at https://masipag.org/

Stop Golden Rice Network

Stop Golden Rice Network is a regional campaign network geared towards strengthening network support and campaign collaboration against the onslaught of corporate control in food and agriculture. SGRN is a regional campaign network comprised of more than 30 organizations across Asia, geared towards strengthening network support and campaign collaboration against the onslaught of corporate control in food and agriculture. The network strives to lead the fight against Golden Rice in Asia. More information can be found at https://www.facebook.com/SGRNAsia/ and https://masipag.org/sgrn/.