Uruguayan Network of Native and Local Seeds. Friends of the Earth Uruguay/REDES is a founding member ©

1. Peoples’ solutions are built by political actors who fight oppression and exploitation, incorporating a class, feminist, anti-racist, anti-colonialist and anti-capitalist perspective. In 2020, a movement against systemic racism rose up in the USA and globally ©

2. Peoples’ solutions vindicate and reclaim the political arena and public policies to guarantee peoples’ rights. At COP19 in Poland, Friends of the Earth and hundreds of fellow climate activists walked out in protest at the lack of ambition at the talks ©

3. Peoples’ solutions reclaim economics from a justice perspective. In 2021 farmers from the Niger Delta, with the support of Friends of the Earth Netherlands, won compensation for the devastation caused by Shell’s oil spills ©

4 Peoples’ solutions reclaim the territories and seek to reverse reductionism, commodification, privatisation and the financialisation of nature. Ibu Rumsiah, Indonesia, resisting the Indramayu coal plant ©