On the occasion of the 36th Cordillera Day celebration, organized as a one-week long online activity with the theme “Strengthen our unity and courageously defend our ancestral land and life! “, Solidagro expresses its solidarity with our local partners of the CDPC network.
Solidagro in partnership with the Province of East Flanders in Belgium has been working for more than three decades with the Cordillera people through the NGO partner, Center for Development Programs in the Cordillera (CDPC) . Food security is the main focus of our work with CDPC through different projects in communities like installing potable water, micro-irrigation, crop and animal production, appropriate technologies, and campaigns for the right to food.
We join you in the Cordillera Day celebration at a time when the world is facing the challenge of beating the corona virus, and our countries are in lockdown situations. In this crisis, food relief becomes an immediate and inevitable response to those families in need. However, we should keep on looking for long term solutions through ensuring food security and food sovereignty at all times.
Sustainable agroecology systems, practiced and promoted by Solidagro and its partners, are aimed at improving and increasing the local food production Beyond that, land for the tillers has been a resounding call for the past years, thus most importantly defending the Cordillera people’s ancestral land.
We commend the continuous strengthening of the unity among Cordillera people, and in solidarity, we support your actions for a sustainable development, the assertion of the right to food, and the struggle for land and life, of which the yearly Cordillera Day is and will remain a strong expression. Long live the Cordillera people!