Contributing PARTNERS
We are a growing team of community organizers, academics here to exchange knowledge and provide support for community-based food systems & natural resource management best practices.
UBAD Educational Foundation and others fight for amendment to environmental laws in Belize
The Raizal Youth Organization
The Bernard Lodge Farmer’s Association resits displacement from arable land as Jamaica gives up greater food sovereignty
Through an innovative land trust, the Caño Martín Peña community protects itself against gentrification
Barbudans rally against the Disaster Capitalism and accompanying ‘developments’ which expose them to greater effects from climate change
This network connects communities across the Caribbean, armed with generational knowledge and lived experience, battling the impacts of climate change, with technical and legal support offered by the University of Bristol, University of the West Indies, the University of Antwerp, and the National University of Colombia, and backed by financial support from the Global Challenges Research Fund.
A group of farmers whose access to land has been put under threat by recent urban development projects that would expel farmers from their land and reduce access to scarce arable land and potentially put food security at risk in Jamaica. It seeks to make its knowledge visible to the academic community, and is willing to colalborate on alternative forms of organization that land, food production, climate-oriented projects should take if they truly aim at guaranteeing secure, sovereign, and resilient food systems in Jamaica.
FOOD SECURITY
LEGAL REFORMS
YOUTH MOBILIZATION
Reforestation
FOOD SECURITY
LEGAL REFORMS
YOUTH MOBILIZATION
Reforestation
An ethnic-based organization that struggles for the rights and self-determination of Raizal people in the Archipelago of San Andrés in Colombia. RYO promotes the participation of Raizal youth in the drafting and implementation of public policy and in bottom-up organization of young people towards food sovereignty, reforestation, development of local varieties and democratic access to land and water.
COMMUNITY AWARENESS
LEGAL REFORMS
United Black Association for Development Educational Foundation
(UEF) is a community based organization located in Belize City, Belize
Central America (Abya Yala). UEF is the 4 th pillar of the Black
independent owned media conglomerate Kremandala. Amandala
Newspaper was established in August 1969, Krem Radio was
established in November 1989, Krem Television was established in
November 2004, and UEF was established in March 1996. UEF is rooted
in consciousness raising for the liberation of Belizean people.
TThe threat of displacement was the catalyst for families and individals, with very limited economic resources, residents of public lands without property titles in the Caño Martín Peña area to establish an innovative community land trust. The trust made enabled them to plan for the environmental recovery of the Caño Martín Peña ecosystem. The communities were the central and leading axis of a participatory planning process during the years 2002-2004.
We are a growing team of community organizers, academics here to exchange knowledge and provide support for community-based food systems & natural resource management best practices.
UBAD Education Foundation
Environmental Expert Activist
Bernard Lodge Farmers Association
Raizal Youth Organization
Fideicomiso de la Tierra del Caño Martín Peña
Research Professor
Principal Investigator
Senior Fellow
Principal Investigator
Research Ecologist
PHD Researcher
Research Assistant
Research Assistant
Showcasing stories of Caribbean organizations at the foreground of the struggle against disaster capitalism in the Caribbean. Our network of participants in the Greater Caribbean region connect, learn, share their hands on responses to the impacts of the twin threats of the climate crisis and disaster capitalism in our region.
Bernard Lodge Farmers Group
WAVE (Progressive Reform Movement)
Tèt Kole
Global Challenges Research Fund
Open Society Foundations
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In the tumultuous aftermath of disasters, it is easy to feel isolated and alone, but you are not.
We, a network of Caribbean-wide community organizers who stand in solidarity with those affected the twin threats of the climate crises and disaster capitalism, a phenomenon that exacerbates the suffering of vulnerable communities.
We want you to know that your stories matter. We are here to listen, to support, and to amplify your voices.
We believe that together, we can challenge the forces of disaster capitalism and advocate for more sustainable, inclusive and equitable decision-making.
Join us in solidarity. Share your experiences and let’s build strong communities that thrive together.
As the wider world braces for the climate change, Caribbean communities are already struggling with its effects. Small local communities, small scale farmers and coastal communities are disproportionately affected. Political decisions, power dynamics and laws often compound the catastrophes and silence bottom up solutions.
There are ways in which you can help.