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Ultimately SOMO’s Food and Land program strives for a global food system in which small farmers and workers are justly treated and fairly compensated, biodiversity and ecosystems are protected, rights of communities to natural resources are secured, and hunger is a thing of the past. To contribute to progress towards this ideal the program pushes for improvements in public and private policies intervening both at the beginning (farm workers, small holders and communities) and at the end (food companies and supermarkets) of the food chain. The program interventions can build on decades of experience with research and advocacy on corporate food sector issues and broad networks of partners in the global north and south. It is difficult to overstate the importance of the global food and land complex as it is essential for nutrition, employment, culture, environment, conservation, peace and stability. To illustrate, 31 per cent of the working population worldwide is involved in agriculture, which is often the most important sector in developing countries. Even in many developed countries food processing is a leading industry in terms of value added and jobs generated. On the other hand, working conditions in agriculture are often harsh, dangerous, under paid and jobs are precarious. Through large-scale land acquisitions community rights to land are often violated. Of the 795 million people worldwide who are undernourished 80 percent are involved in agriculture. Indeed over the last decade food riots, land grab, obesity epidemic, food speculation, reports of deplorable working conditions, climate change and farmer protests have made it clearer than ever that for the food and land complex to provide its essential services equitably and sustainably many critical issues need to be addressed. Within the theme Right to food, SOMO will focus its work on capacity building of civil society in research and advocacy, specifically in relation to food prices and improving conditions for agricultural workers and small-scale food producers. SOMO will conduct research to support national and global influencing. Its primary thematic focus areas include food prices, the impact of trading policies, the needs and problems of agricultural workers and the role of certification schemes. The long-term outcome of SOMO’s work in the strategic partnership with Oxfam Novib is to contribute to securing the right to food, improved labor conditions and respect of human rights. To contribute to this long-term outcome the program pursues a number of strategies, i.e. research, capacity building, supporting and building networks and advocacy. All strategies target the improvement of public and private policies that govern and/or affect the food and agricultural sector in developing countries.

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The project will focus on Indigenous Community Socio Cultural Rights and Forest-based Sustainable Livelihood. Through this the main focus will be given on the follow-up of implementation of CFR (Community Forest Rights/Resources) under FRA (Forest Rights A ct) till all the villages have got their community rights over Community Forest Resources, including rights over the shifting cultivation area where Adivasis are practicing since long time. They will also ensure that their individual forest rights land as well as community boundary is properly identified and accepted by the community. Along with this, project will focus on the establishment of good relationship among the different Adivasi communities of other area in the district, state and other state and mutual learning of good traditional practices for their better life and livelihood. They will also ensure the sustainable practice of livelihood and its documentation. Time to time they will raise their current issues with other people in their Adivasi for ums and other different platforms, including submitting memorandum to Government Of Odisha and Government Of India and meeting with Government People.Seba Jagat has worked in the themes of adivasi forest and land rights, culture, village self-governance, a divasi women groups, promotion of sustainable minor forest produce utilisation and organic agriculture, and proper implementation of government social and employment support programmes. Devote Trust is founded by local adivasis in the beginning of 2000´s. Its basis of operations are the needs of local forest dependent communities, and it is working for realisation of a just, sustainable and democratic society. In its operational villages live Kondh adivasis, whose main source of livelihoods are agriculture , shifting cultivation and minor forest products. Most of the people are living below poverty lines and indebtedness is a big problem in their areas. Hard labour and malnutrition makes the people vulnerable to diseases like malaria, diarrhoea and other wat er-borne diseases.

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This project aims to promote the exchange of strategies and technologies to tackle illegal mining in indigenous lands, and thereby the deforestation it produces, between the Yanomami, Ye'kuana and Munduruku peoples. It will ensure a qualified group of Munduruku indigenous young leaders will train Yanomami and Ye’kuana young leaders on the use of drones and tablets to capture high resolution imagery of the deforestation caused in the Uraricoera macro-region. These images will then be used to inform advocacy reports and official public denouncements to local, state and national authorities to immediately remove these illegal invaders, and enforce the monitoring and protection of TIY, raising public awareness and advocating for action in the judiciary. It intends to tackle two problems simultaneously: 1) the lack of qualified information to publicly report illegal mining, put pressure on the relevant authorities to remove these invaders and monitor Yanomami Indigenous Territory (TIY), and raise public awareness; and 2) the lack of alternative activities beyond the lure of being co-opted into illegal gold mining for young Yanomami and Ye’kuana people, with the aim of bringing them closer to the political struggle to protect TIY and its forests for future generations. This project aims to address the main drivers of deforestation by tackling its root cause in TIY: illegal gold mining. Illegal wildcat gold mining is the main threat to the physical and cultural integrity of the Yanomami and Ye'kuana indigenous people, and the tropical forest that they protect, located in Yanomami Indigenous Territory (TIY) in the state of Roraima, Brazil. By 2021 the total cumulative area destroyed by illegal gold mining in TIY exceeded 3,000 hectares. It is estimated that there are currently about 20,000 goldminers operating in TIY.