Protecting land, farming and food through international criminal law

The farming community and landworkers are on the frontline with respect to feeding communities, and also often the first to witness the severe damage being suffered by soils, wildlife, forests and waterways.

Existing legal structures address this poorly, and can even encourage destructive practices by default.  This may have the effect of constraining farmers to minimal levels of care for land and livestock, and at the industrial level can lead to some of the world’s most polluting practices, degrading soils, decimating biodiversity and exacerbating climate change.

At the same time, the farming community is uniquely placed to respond to the climate and ecological crisis - to be part of the solution. Increasingly popular regenerative methods can restore soils and ecosystems to health and productivity.  

International recognition of ecocide will set parameters to deter and prevent the worst harms, level the playing field for regenerative approaches and support enforcement and development of better regulation.  Most importantly, it will protect soils, wildlife, forests and biodiversity, safeguarding food security and our common future.

Join us along with organizations, businesses and communities that live and work with the land and in farming, agriculture and forestry, in calling on all governments to support inclusion of ecocide into the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, and to positively engage in the growing global conversation to make this a reality.

AGRICULTURE AND A LIVEABLE PLANET: THE TRANSFORMATIVE ROLE OF ECOCIDE LAW

This webinar examines how a new crime of ecocide can strengthen existing environmental laws and safeguards, help create a level playing field for our food producers and preserve the soil and land for future generations.

The farming community and landworkers are on the front line in the effort to conserve the natural world and see at first hand the damage being done. Whilst dominant food production and resources extraction models often cause severe harm to the Earth, outsourcing the true costs to nature, a growing number of farmers, foresters, growers and land-based workers are taking it upon themselves to be part of the solution, adopting regenerative methods that work with nature rather than against it.