What is known at the time of writing is that the death toll from Hurricanes Eta and Iota (currently nearing 200) continues to grow, while more than 200,000 are without homes and millions more are impacted by the combined effects of the hurricanes and the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
Indigenous, Afro-descendant, and peasant/small-scale farming communities in Honduras and Guatemala are facing devastating floods from Hurricane Eta and Iota. They’re now losing their homes and hundreds of hectares of crops after an already difficult year. Climate change has driven the...
Milourdes Augustin, Solidarity Program Officer for Haiti and West Africa, shares a poem for Earth Day. The world is on the brink of a necessary revolution and Mother Earth is on our side.
The report chronicles deep lessons in transformational change, from Puerto Rico’s social movements which are visionary and oppositional, centering sovereignty and self-governance. For funders who are interested in supporting movements who are building a pathway to a decolonized, thriving and resilient Puerto Rico, this report will provide a helpful roadmap.
As Iowa’s own farmers are realizing, climate change rains on them too, in torrents, and it’s only going to get worse. They have a lot to gain by listening to what their fellow flood victims from Mozambique are telling them: Diversify. For our sake and your own.
Below is a statement from the Movement of People Affected by Dams (MAB), first in English then below in Portuguese. A longtime partner of Grassroots International, MAB advocates for the human right to water, land and energy sovereignty, particularly for...
João Pedro Stedile outlines the issues leading up to the Brazilian coup, life under Bolsonaro's rule, and a vision for a new agrarian program in Brazil.
A philanthropic friend of Grassroots International, the Swift Foundation published an open letter that brings both clarity and depth in speaking out against the underlying problems driving the commodification of nature and the displacement of Indigenous Peoples.
A look at the successes Grassroots International and our partners have had in 2018 — including a dramatic increase in our solidarity and impact.
Rather than offering a “solution” to climate change, big hydro-electric dams are false solutions that endanger the planet with the methane emitted and threaten to destroy local ecosystems and cultures, like the Munduruku in Brazil. Thankfully the Munduruku linked up with the Movement of People Affected by Dams (MAB) to resist.
These five narrative frames and their embedded assumptions determine how billions of dollars in climate philanthropy and finance are spent. Without mapping and exposing these frames we cannot engage in honest conversation about the role of philanthropists in supporting transformative change.
Solidarity to Solutions was a week of uplifting grassroots climate leadership to counter the narrative of the Global Climate Action Summit that corporations and national leaders will move us towards a climate safe, equitable future. Here are some of our reflections, as funders, on navigating those spaces.
Climate change is disrupting our world and our lives. "Conscientious capitalists" assembled in San Francisco in September to offer false solutions. The grassroots answered on the streets with real ones.
Civil Eats spoke to two Organización Boricuá members—Dalma Cartagena and Jesús Vázquez—at last week’s U.S. Food Sovereignty Alliance national assembly in Bellingham, Washington, where the group won the Food Sovereignty Prize.
The U.S. Food Sovereignty Alliance (USFSA) honored Black Mesa Water Coalition and Organización Boricuá de Agricultura Ecológica de Puerto Rico on Sunday, October 14, 2018, at the tenth annual Food Sovereignty Prize ceremony on Lummi and Nooksack land in Coast Salish Territory, in the city now called Bellingham, Washington.
Les organisateurs locaux en première ligne de la crise écologique savent comment défendre leurs communautés dans un climat politique hostile et construire des solutions écologiques et saines, fondées sur les principes de durabilité et de transition juste. Des groupes locaux...
Together, Global Greengrants Fund, Thousand Currents, Grassroots International, and Urgent Action Fund for Women’s Human Rights help grassroots organizations working at the intersection of climate resilience and human rights by transforming large amounts of grant capital into strategic investments in effective grassroots climate solutions.
The Grassroots Climate Solutions Fund, a partnership of four grantmakers that have been supporting indigenous rights, climate and economic justice, and women’s rights for more than 100 years combined.
