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#WSF2016: Peasant Agriculture can feed the world and cool the planet

Dena Hoff from La Via Campesina North America, spoke at the session on "Climate Change - Crisis or Collapse?" held at Université du Québec à Montréal. In this video, she speaks about the movement’s efforts of setting up agroecology schools around the world. She recounts her own community’s negative and disastrous experience of living in a region where extractive industries liek Shell are dumping toxic wastes. She also speaks about the strain put on water resources by large industries operating in North Dakota. "The methane that goes up in the air lits up the sky and there is no night any more", she says. "It is a problem caused by humans and it has to be solved by us- by changing our pattern of consumption, getting politically active, educating our neighbors and sor forth", she adds

Source: Focus Puller/WSF TV - wsftv.net/Members/focuspuller/videos/fsm2016-montreal-canada-dena-hoff-lvc