![At the beginning of the pandemic, MST launched an ongoing national campaign to take food from the settlements to vulnerable populations in cities. Here, a farmer delivers food to the collection center organized by ELAA for people living in the outskirts of the state capital, Curitiba. Image courtesy of Wellington Lenon/ELAA.](https://imgs.mongabay.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/20/2022/09/13151232/MST-agroecology-2-768x512.jpg)
‘Viable, just & necessary’: Agroecology is a movement in Brazil
The Landless Workers Movement in Brazil (or MST, its acronym in Portuguese) is one of the largest social movements in the world. Born in the early 1980s at the end…
Anna Lappé is the Executive Director of the Global Alliance for the Future of Food and a national bestselling author writing on food systems transformation. She is the author or co-author of three books, including Diet for a Hot Planet: The Climate Crisis at the End of Your Fork and What You Can Do About It, and is featured in or is a contributor to 19 others, most recently the 50th anniversary of her mother’s three million copy bestseller Diet for a Small Planet. For more than a decade, she helped run the communications advocacy group, Real Food Media, and from 2016 to 2023 she developed and directed the Food Sovereignty Fund of the Panta Rhea Foundation.
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