Supports agroecological practices for the production of and access to healthy food

Supports farming and peasant families, indigenous, kilombola*, and traditional communities, and solidarity economy organizations and ventures in the production, processing, and commercialization of agroecological foods, promoting food security, social organization, and access to public policies, in about 100 municipalities in southern Brazil. It promotes a good life through the production of healthy, poison-free food in home and community gardens, fields, orchards, and agroforests, and through commercialization at fairs and institutional markets, especially public schools.

* Kilombola communities are Afro-Brazilian communities rooted in the resistance of enslaved Africans who formed autonomous territories, safeguarding their cultural heritage, collective identity, and ancestral rights to land.

Supports indigenous peoples and kilombola communities in their right to land and territory

Supports and acts in defense of the right to land and territory for indigenous peoples and kilombolas, especially in the South and Amazon regions and the south of Mato Grosso do Sul. It offers popular legal counsel advocating for the demarcation of territories and the strengthening of organizations, respecting ancestral knowledge and cultures.

Supports the practice of anti-racist education for a just society

Supports public school networks and civil society organizations in constructing actions to confront the racism present in society’s structures. It produces educational materials and awareness campaigns that emphasize the role of non-racialized people in deconstructing their privileges and promoting just ethnic-racial relations. It supports women, especially kilombola and indigenous women, to promote their value and respect, cooperating to expand their protagonist role in confronting racism.

Supports collective projects that transform realities

Supports projects from grassroots groups, networks, cooperatives, associations, diaconal, ecumenical, and inter-religious institutions, social movements, and civil society organizations throughout the country. It promotes training and engagement of groups in democratic management with gender and ethnic-racial justice, and stimulates the groups’ protagonist role and autonomy in carrying out their transformative actions.