[imc-presse] [Cja-press] Press release agrocultureday Copenhagen

[Climate Justice Action: latest news]

*To farmers around the world the false solutions that are proposed in this
climate summit are as much a threat as drought, tornadoes and new climate
patterns. *



At this moment the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
(UNFCCC) is discussing how to include farmland* *into CO2 emission trading.
To highlight that this is a false solution we will hit the street on the
15th of December.



Bente Hessellund of the Danish CJA: 'In spite of the urgency of the climate
crisis the UNFCC process fails to question an economic model that is based
on infinite growth on a finite planet. Governments have done nothing to move
beyond setting up market mechanisms to combat the climate crisis. These
mechanisms are not aimed at pushing back the use of fossil fuels or
greenhouse gas emissions in the industrial countries. The possibility of
including agricultural land into CO2 emission-trading is one of the false
solutions to climate change. It can lead to farmers being forced into
dependency of agro-industrial projects. Instead, agriculture needs to be
removed from the profit-driven market in order to develop a radically
ecological food system that cools down the planet.'



To make clear that large scale industrial agriculture aggravates climate
change rather than solve the climate problem, Climate Justice Action (CJA)
is organising a demonstration in Copenhagen on the 15th of December. Our
motto is "Food System Change, not Climate Change". CJA is one of the
networks that actively mobilises the critical voices around the Copenhagen
climate summit.



The agriculture manifestation will be taken to the streets of Copenhagen,
calling attention to the positive alternative that non-commercial,
organicagriculture for human needs offers. In a creative manner, the
attention will
be drawn to companies that are responsible for the industrial food model.
Will it be a blockade on the Monsanto premises or do the agriculture
activist have something else in store? Let yourself be taken by surprise on
one of the many stops on their way through town*.*



To farmers around the world the false solutions that are proposed in this
climate summit are as much a threat as drought, tornadoes and new climate
patterns.



In the South, forests are burnt or cut down and small farmers are cleared
off their land to make way for large scale industrial mono-cultures as soy
and maize to supply the European intensive livestock breeders. In factory
farms, millions of animals are fattened as fast as possible, creating vast
amounts of dung and methane and consuming a great deal of energy.



Stimulating agrofuels and bio-plastics to combat the crisis will only
increase the pressure on the people currently living from the land. Already
in the developing countries large areas of land are grabbed by
multinationals, small farmers and indigenous people  driving off their
territories.



'Small scale, organic agriculture remains the best way to combat hunger,
malnutrition and the food and climate crisis.' argues activist Flip Vonk of
Climate Justice Action (CJA)  and part time farm hand on an organic farm.
'Native seeds offer the best opportunity for adaptation to current and
future changes in the climate. Sustainable local food production costs less
energy, makes us independent from imported animal foods, captures CO2 in the
soil and improves biodiversity.'

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Practical:

Agriculture Action Day: Resistance is Ripe!

Starting point: Islands Brygge – Havne Parken near the Harbour Pool,
Copenhagen

Metro: Islands Brygge of Christianshavns Torv. Bus: 5A, 12, 33, 250S

December 15th,  12 o'clock.

Press contact:



   - Scott Katz Benjamin +45 41 82 99 28 English (native speaker)
   - Jan Digger  + 45 52 68 72 67 German, English
   - Bente Hessellund: +45 29 29 45 27 Danish, English
   - Flip Vonk +45 50 62 00 71 Dutch, English
   - Jeroen Robbe +45 61 72 74 45 Dutch (Flanders), some French
   - Anna +45 50 11 25 41 French



Website: www.climate-justice-action.org/mobilization/agriculture-action-day/

Mail: climate-action at aseed.net



Facts & Figures

Between 1990 and 2005 industrial agriculture world wide has contributed
approximately 17% of greenhouse gas emissions. When you include the
emissions from deforestation and generally change of land use towards
agriculture, transport, processing, refrigeration and other aspects of the
industrial food system, the contribution will amount to 32 % and probably
even more.



*Sustainable or U.N.sustainable ???*


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CLIMATE JUSTICE ACTION is a new global network of people and groups
committed to taking the urgent actions needed to avoid catastrophic climate
change. This means rejecting the false, market-based “solutions” to climate
change, and exposing how corporate domination of climate negotiations is
worsening the climate crisis.  CJA is part of building the growing global
social movement for Climate Justice and advances grassroots alternatives
that can provide real and just solutions to the climate crisis.
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