*Landless Worker's Movement (MST) proposed a tree planting campaign until 2030
*Price of food was a cause for concern for the government
*Landless Workers Movement (MST) present socialism as a possible future when there is respect for nature
*Price of food was a cause for concern for the government
*Landless Workers Movement (MST) present socialism as a possible future when there is respect for nature
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00:00In Sao Paulo, Brazil, the National Agrarian Reform Fair of the Landless Workers Movement, MST, reaches its fourth day.
00:07The event has more than 1,500 farmers presenting in the largest South American city the capacity of socialism and agroecology as engines in the face of the environmental and capitalist crisis.
00:18Smells, flavors, textures and other sensations travel long corridors with more than 560 tons of fruits, vegetables, seeds, fresh and processed products from various regions of Brazil marketed by the National Agrarian Reform Fair.
00:37In times of climate collapse, biodiversity is the way forward.
00:40There is always a huge connectivity of biodiversity with the production of agricultural products for food, because each biome evolved over tens and even hundreds of millions of years.
01:01So we have to consider that and not simply remove all the biodiversity and replace it with just a single agricultural plantation.
01:10This is what science has clearly demonstrated, called regenerative agriculture, when you have an element of agricultural culture surrounded by the biome of that region.
01:23The maintenance of native forests serves as a tool to balance the climate and in turn protects cultivated areas from the increasingly frequent and intense extreme weather events.
01:41The Landless Movement launched a council for the implementation of the plant trees, produce healthy food campaign, which aims to plant 100 million native trees throughout Brazel by 2030.
01:51Our project preserves the environment, it has the clarity that for us to exist with popular agrarian reform, it is necessary that there be mutual respect and cooperation with the environment.
02:07Agribusiness, on the other hand, is not it is a project that concentrates land, that does not distribute income.
02:12That does not generate work that uses agrochemicals intensively, that does not produce food and that destroys the environment.
02:19The price of food was a cause for concern for the Brazilian government, although the vast majority of the resources of the Safra Agricultural Plan are captured by agribusiness for the production of export commodities.
02:36The fair price of food without poison at the Mest Agrarian Reform Fair exposes the barriers that exist between the population and producers.
02:43If we have worked avoiding intermediaries and having a direct relationship between consumer and producer, there will surely be a better price.
02:55In a biodiverse country on a continental scale, the Mest warns about a logic that homogenizes crops generates hunger and rural exodus.
03:05In response, it presents socialism as a possible and abundant future when there is respect for nature and its rhythms.