Date: October 31, 2025
Time: 2PM CEST | 3PM Amman & Kampala | 5:30PM New Delhi | 8PM Manila
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For decades, food sovereignty and agroecology have been championed by people’s organizations worldwide as the only genuine alternatives to imperialism’s destructive, chemicals-heavy model of corporate-run, intensive agriculture. These twin concepts offer a systemic response to the dual crises of hunger and climate change by placing ecological health and people’s control at the center of food production.

Despite their popularity and proven success within social movements, the transformative potential of both food sovereignty and agroecology is under threat. Corporate and intergovernmental interests are increasingly co-opting this language. Agroecology is reduced to a mere set of farm-level technical fixes (like cover cropping or integrated pest management) that preserve corporate monopolies over seeds, land, and technology. Meanwhile, food sovereignty—which is fundamentally a political concept asserting people’s right to define their own food systems—is stripped of its radical core and reframed as simple ‘food security’ or ‘sustainable farming.’ This co-option ignores its crucial demands for dismantling corporate power and democratizing food systems, stripping movements of their radical, political challenge to the existing neoliberal food system.

For food sovereignty and agroecology to achieve their full potential for climate justice and sustainable food production in the face of imperialist offensives, genuine land reform is central. Food sovereignty, by definition, cannot be achieved on someone else’s land; it demands a systemic change in who controls the means of production—especially land.

Many people’s movements have successfully implemented land reform as the non-negotiable structural anchor for transformative food sovereignty and agroecology—fighting against hunger and the climate crisis by empowering people to reclaim their land as the means of production.

Let us hear from them and learn from their experiences in the webinar “Radical Ground: Land Reform as Imperative to People-Led Agroecology and People’s Food Sovereignty,” happening on October 31, 2 PM CEST / 3 PM Amman & Kampala / 5:30 PM New Delhi / 8 PM Manila.

This webinar is organized by the People’s Coalition on Food Sovereignty, Asian Peasant Coalition, and the Commissions 1 (National Liberation) and 6 (Peasant) of the International League of Peoples’ Struggle.