The rise of industrial agriculture, mostly to grow food for industrial animal production, has come at a huge cost to lands, communities, cultures and lifeways.
The Black Hills of South Dakota in the North where Monsanto’s GMO seeds and chemical pesticides have harmed the land and the people, and the Lacandon and the Kogi territories in the South, are experiencing rapid-fire destruction of their traditional life and food ways.
Together we are co-innovating the strategic joining of 2 parallel food movements: the fight against Monsanto’s GMO greed seeds and pesticides with Indigenous efforts to preserve Native seeds and maintain the integrity of Mother Earth to create healthier food systems. Indigena and its partners will work to leverage a growing network of Indigenous communities who stand for Mother Earth, Native Seeds and localized traditional farming to fight modern Indigenous colonization through industrial agriculture that destroys healthy food systems and drives cultural extinction at a time we all need traditional paths to feed our growing population on a warming planet.