Contributing PARTNERS
Our team of community organizers, academics exchanged knowledge and provided support for community-based food systems & natural resource management best practices.
‘Food insecurity at the time of climate change: Sharing and learning from bottom-up responses in the Greater Caribbean Region.’
It developed capacity for knowledge co-production and research collaboration for addressing problems of food insecurity that result from environmental change – climate change, biodiversity loss – and lack of good governance in the management of natural resources, such as land and water.
Most importantly, it achieved improved mutual understanding of the historical and geographical contexts, different methods of engagement, and contributed to the identification of bottom-up community-led practices as the most effective ways of addressing the interconnected challenges of food insecurity and climate change in the region.
UBAD Educational Foundation and others fight for amendment to environmental laws in Belize to codify meaningful public participation in environmental matters.
The Raizal Youth Organization 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
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 and champions other communities to do the same.
Barbudans rally against the Disaster Capitalism and accompanying ‘developments’ which expose them to greater effects from climate change
Our team of community organizers, academics exchanged knowledge and provided support for community-based food systems & natural resource management best practices.
UBAD Education Foundation
Environmental Expert Activist
Bernard Lodge Farmers Group
Raizal Youth Organization
Fideicomiso de la Tierra del Caño Martín Peña
Research Professor
Principal Investigator
Senior Fellow
Professor
Research Ecologist
PHD Researcher
Research Assistant
Research Assistant
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 collaborate 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.
COMMUNITY AWARENESS
LEGAL REFORMS
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.
A group of local and foreign advocates for socio-environmental justice on Barbuda, opposing developments which cause irreversible negative impact and are incompatible with the rights of people and the environment.
Disaster Capitalism
This project, financed by the Global Challenges Research Fund, was a mission to promote bottom up people lead solutions to our communities’ climate challenges. Collectives of people in the Greater Caribbean region connected, learned, shared, and taught each other their hands on responses to the impacts of climate crisis in our region.
Bernard Lodge Farmers Group
Bristol University
Global Challenges Research Fund
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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.