Thread by @WarOnWant

🧵Institutions like the @WorldBank claim to be leading the way on climate action.

The truth is much of its investment in "climate-smart agriculture" is really just protecting the profits of the corporations that are fuelling the #ClimateCrisis and the #FoodCrisis. 1/8

https://twitter.com/GRAIN_org/status/1542870652658634754

Corporations have co-opted food & climate spaces — pushing the idea that the #FoodCrisis is a production problem that can be solved by increasing yields.

Only, we already produce enough food to feed everyone. In fact according to @FAO, we produce enough for 10 billion people.2/8

Market controls, monocropping and land concentration are solutions to an underproduction issue that doesn't exist.

They're great for corporate profits but they don't address the real causes of poverty, hunger & climate collapse — they make them worse.
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Unequal access to food and land, spiralling emissions and devastating damage to biodiversity are the real issues.

The dazzling array of technological fixes proposed by corporations, from genetic engineering climate-resistant crops, to dangerous pesticides, won't fix them. 4/8

It is these techno-fixes and regressive farming practices — relying on rights abuses and land grabs to put more land & power in corporate hands — that corporations are talking about when they claim they are taking an 'agroecological' or 'climate-smart' approach. 5/8

'Agroecology' was coined by peasants' movements decades ago, defining:

Agricultural practices that mimic natural processes
A people-and-planet-centred approach to food systems
A political struggle for #FoodSovereignty

That's why we always talk about peasant agroecology. 6/8

@CropLifeIntl, an industry association including some of the world’s largest and most harmful chemical pesticide producers, have even created a handy quiz to help them co-opt, and redefine, the language of the people and movements whose lives and livelihoods they've stolen. 7/8

Without the right to land there is no agroecology.

We must stop corporate capture of food systems & the greenwashing of corporate agribusiness — which is damaging our planet & our health, destroying communities & fuelling poverty. #PovertyisPolitical 8/8
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