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Organización Boricuá de Agricultura Ecológica de Puerto Rico
Thanks to laws and treaties imposed by the US, Puerto Rico has been forced to import much of its food – an immense cost to both people and the planet. But Organización Boricuá de Agricultura Ecológica de Puerto Rico is organizing rural and urban communities to build an alternative food system for the archipelago.
Organización Boricuá de Agricultura Ecológica de Puerto Rico is a grassroots organization for social, environmental, and climate justice. Organización Boricuá (or Boricuá) brings together farmers, organizers, peasants, agricultural workers, educators, and activists to promote and practice agroecology as a vehicle to achieve food sovereignty.
Boricuá works in the countryside and the city to coordinate, plan, and promote supportive solidarity brigades in farms. These brigades are a form of mutual aid in which small farmers work together to rebuild each other’s farms, engage in educational workshops, exchange tools and seeds, and share meals together. The movement is also working to create markets and supply chains for people to source food from small farmers who depend on land for their livelihood.
In an era where concepts like “agroecology” can become easily co-opted, Boricuá is making it clear that if you’re not working with the community, it’s not agroecology.
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