Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 8 November 2022

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action

Irish Experience of Community-led Climate Action: Public Participation Networks

Ms Sarah Clancy:

The key one that I know about is O Movimento Sem Terra. It is a peasant farmers' movement and an extremely good organisation which has lobbying status at the EU. The vast majority of farming worldwide is done by peasant farmers and not agribusiness. There would be a very strong resonance in Ireland in bringing that to the table. It may be something as simple as an invitation to bring some representatives to speak at one of the farming committees. One of the founding members of Talamh Beo, interestingly enough, worked with O Movimento Sem Terra. My pronunciation is worse in Portuguese than it is in English. There are examples in Ireland. Mr. Stanley-Smith may know some of them.