The international peasant network said the solution to the food and climate crises is food sovereignty. “We defend a more localized agriculture, with agroecological means of production that provide food to local markets” Nicholson told Real World Radio.

He went on to explain: “Our contribution is that we produce food for our close society, our local markets, our food does not have to go through kilometers. We say that the family farming model, small and medium scale agriculture that produces mainly to supply the nearby markets, is what cools and feeds the planet.

The peasant leader also spoke about the false solutions to climate change and emphasized: “unless there is a system change, a change in the social model, we will not be able to stop the process of global warming. We need a new model of consumption, of society and of the economy, which addresses global warming from a social and ecologic perspective”, he concluded.

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