'While you pour billions into corporate-driven false solutions, we farmers are already holding the real answers,' Leodegario Velayo tells negotiators in Baku, Azerbaijan
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At a COP29 side event, Velayo delivered a message about how El Niño and La Niña effects threaten farmers in the Philippines, joining civil society organizations from various countries in advocating for agroecology as a climate solution.agroecology is a holistic and multidisciplinary approach In the last month alone, six tropical cyclones hit Luzon in the Philippines, affecting millions of Filipinos., weather extremes were the main driver of acute food insecurity for 18 countries, with over 72 million people facing high levels of acute food insecurity.estimated that the overall cost of damage to agriculture and fisheries in the country from the El Niño phenomenon was P9.5 billion.
FARMING AND CLIMATE. Velayo delivered a message at a side event at COP29, sharing his experience in agroecology.“The global leaders must need to recognize and respect farmer’s rights in the global south: the right to our land, our right to plant and share our seeds, the right to choose and develop technologies that are based on our needs and objectives,” Velayo said during a separate protest at COP29.
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