<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_quote">From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Kléver Calle</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kcalle@gmail.com">kcalle@gmail.com</a>></span><br><br><br><div dir="ltr">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center" align="center"><b><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Declaration of Rosario</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center" align="center"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">June 16, 2017</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center" align="center"><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN-US">Encounter
Intercontinental Mother Earth, One Health</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center" align="center"><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN-US">4<sup>th</sup>
International Congress on Socio-environmental Health </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN-US"> </span><br><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN-US"></span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN-US"><br><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN-US"><br></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN-AU">We are collectively
academics, social activists, ecologists, indigenous peoples, artists,
professionals of human, animal and plant health, food producers, scientists and
researchers, creators of new economies, communicators of good news. </span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">We come from
Argentina, Australia, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El
Salvador, Guatemala, India, Mexico, Paraguay, Peru, Sweden and Uruguay. </span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN-AU">We met from the 12th
to the 16th of June in Rosario, Argentina to build spaces for dialog, art,
science and poetry, in the framework of ancestral and academic knowledge, to
make visible the stories of resistance needed for the defence of life.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN-AU"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN-AU">We have come to
Rosario to share the quiet urgency to unite in diversity, to multiply the
efforts to walk in harmony without waste, wear and tear. Also to share concerns
and various forms of resistance and construction in the face of the attacks on
the health of Mother Earth and her many communities. To give ourselves hope in
ways of life, inclusive and diverse, and celebrate the harvest of the fruits we
have sown. We have sought to meet to rejoice, to dream, to fly, to wake up and
resist. To be in solidarity, to listen and learn together about the care of
plants, animals, the earth and our lives. To continue dreaming the dreams of
the world seeking "the heart of Science and Life".</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN-AU"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN-AU">We agree that when we
speak of One Health, we are asserting the health for all living organisms, not
only for us as humans. We recognize that we are only a small part of a
Universe, in which everything is interconnected, a thread in the fabric of the
life on this beautiful planet, all participants of a wonderfully complex
ecological balance. We recognize that human health is a reflection of the
health of our planet. Recognizing that our Large Home, Mother Earth or
Pachamama, is a macro-ecosystem, which houses millions of interconnected
ecosystems, each with their own characteristics.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN-AU"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN-AU">During these intense
days we have shared testimonies and scientific evidence of the devastation of
the Earth and the diseases that this destruction, motivated by the industrial
system of production and consumption and its unrestrained pursuit of profit,
induces in communities, human beings and other forms of life. We have heard
also of the impact of this destruction on the many interrelations between the health
of the mind, the body, economic structures, policies and ecosystems; and we
have exchanged experiences and evidence of living well together in society and
nature, to refresh our senses and return to the path of complementarity,
solidarity and cooperation with all beings.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN-AU"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN-AU">We are building a
platform with all this knowledge to care for seeds, biodiversity, microbial
life, our economies and cultures, to stop the degradation of elements of life
and to recover the health of Mother Earth and our communities.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN-AU"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN-AU">We have seen how
globally the intention is to impose a model of corporate industrial agriculture
and food production that carries with it a huge environmental devastation,
linked to hunger, malnutrition and destruction of lands of the peasants and
indigenous peoples. The might of the big corporations continues to be imposed
in vast territories of transgenic seeds, industrial monoculture plantations and
massive spraying with pesticides. Corporate power is increasing, with just a
handful of corporations controlling global seed markets, biotechnology,
agrochemicals, agricultural machinery and fertilizers, threatening to turn
farmers into mere slaves. Seed laws, sanitary and phytosanitary standards, new
technologies and the marketing of processed food are some of the tools that
capitalism is using to impose this agro-food system; a system that is linked to
a majority of the most frequent diseases of people, animals and the planet.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN-AU"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN-AU">Extractivism is
another facet of this process of destruction and from the specific stories
shared here by our companions, farmers and indigenous peoples, we have seen how
large-scale and open-pit mining, the extraction of hydrocarbons, the imposition
of fracking and other megaprojects are forcing entire communities out of their
lands, often through violent and criminal assault on their resistance, which is
they have adopted as the only way to survive. At the same time, mega-cities
have transformed into a space of extractivism, in the hands of real estate
speculators, the irrational occupation of urban space and the massive use of
resources that the model of consumption implies.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN-AU"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN-AU">We have also been
able to see that the so-called "health system" is in fact a
"disease system" where the focus is on the market and commodification
and where the result is a system that promotes illness and kills, controlled,
also in this case, by a handful of corporations - many of them the same ones
making agro-toxic products as is the case of Bayer, which is also in the
process of acquiring Monsanto. In this context, industrial drugs are, together
with medical technology, one of the main tools for the control of the lives of
our peoples; the system of patents, the domination of drug discovery in a few
laboratories and the abusive use of this power are all facets of the same
problem.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN-AU"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN-AU">A special mention
should be made of the indiscriminate use of antibiotics, in both human health
and their application in agriculture and animal husbandry, that is leading to
the emergence of resistant microorganisms, that are becoming increasingly
serious threats and might soon be uncontrollable in our societies.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN-AU"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN-AU">We have also been
able to recognize one of the most serious problems affecting our societies,
namely garbage. This is a patent example of a society that has disengaged
itself from ecological life cycles, lost control of its own metabolism to
become the facilitator of its own death.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN-AU"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center" align="center"><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN-AU">We
declare ourselves in resistance to this model of death!</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN-AU"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN-AU">And that's why the
resistance of the people who have been poisoned with pesticides, the original
peoples in their lands, the recyclers, the women, the struggles against
transgenic crops, against fracking and mining are examples that encourage our
collective solidarity.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN-AU">We know where we are
going and have shared an enormous amount of knowledge, proposals, research,
ideas, principles and paradigms that make up different and complementary seeds,
of the new world that is being born as we walk together.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN-AU"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN-AU">We have been able to
reaffirm the need to consolidate the production of healthy food for free
peoples as a basis for our walk. Only agro-ecological agriculture, small scale
farmer-based, local, diverse, and in harmony with nature, will be able to
produce healthy food for our peoples as they have been doing over the last ten
thousand years. These foods are the ones that nourish us, bind us together with
others, that are nourished each day by the culture of our ancestors, that heal
us, that make community and allow us to continue the dialog with nature and
diversity.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN-AU"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN-AU">In this context, food
sovereignty is the way, the principle and the guide to retake the road to a
world free from hunger and to produce healthy food in harmony with nature. Food
sovereignty is expressed in the struggles of all peoples that defend their
lands, their natural assets, their seeds and their ways of life. The future
lies in ensuring the right of peoples to decide what to grow and how to grow is
installed as a global norm and as an indispensable practice.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN-AU"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN-AU">We also met in
feminist struggles, in popular feminisms, in the resistance to violence against
women and in the radical questioning of the dominant patriarchal system. This
is another source of inspiration that nourishes us, stimulates us to
transformation and guides us on the path to a society without violence. From
these struggles we have learned that our bodies are also our territories and to
defend them and care for them is a fundamental and integral component of the
territories of life that we are defending and nurturing. Diversity is the basis
of all forms of life and also of resistance. We denounce and we stand in
solidarity against femicide everywhere. We see how essential is the
construction and the struggle of women, we learn from the wisdom of indigenous
and rural women, reaffirming the need to maintain and strengthen the collective
care that we all have to exercise, of Mother Earth and all its living beings.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN-AU"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN-AU">We understand that by
repairing and healing the territories we can protect the collective health and
ensure a healthy life for our peoples. And we find within nature itself the
specific possibilities and examples of nourishment, healing and opportunities
to live fully. Here, invisible micro-organisms play an indispensable role,
being the oldest and most numerous living organisms on our planet, in
sustaining the balance of life through promotion of diversity, tireless
contribution to essential ecological processes and even in their resistance to
the toxicity of our medicine.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN-AU"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN-AU">Many of us are part
research and education groups within universities and have engaged in discussions
on our role, our responsibility and our challenges. From these discussions and
the nourishing memories of struggles for the Cordoba University Reform 99 years
ago, we are committed to reach 100 years of that reform, assuming the current
challenges and asking ourselves:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN-AU"> </span></p>
<p class="m_6261190798524109202gmail-MsoListParagraph" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN-AU"><span>-<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN-AU">As raised in 1918, students should have a fundamental role in the life
of the university. Today we think that learning based and focused on the lives
of the peoples and their territories should be the axis to flag and put into
practice the next reform.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN-AU"> </span></p>
<p class="m_6261190798524109202gmail-MsoListParagraph" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN-AU"><span>-<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN-AU">We are committed to Dignified Science, the path of science for life,
towards a model of knowledge construction that takes into account the diversity
of knowledge that dwells in the diversity of our peoples. We make the words of Andrés
Carrasco our own:<span> </span>"Latin American
peoples have the inalienable right to develop a transparent, autonomous science
and one that serves their interests. To do this, that science must be
undertaken with honesty, bearing in mind that failure to do so may violate its
commitment to the truth, and thereby provide the legitimation that dominant
technological development requires as an instrument of control and
colonialism".</span></p>
<p class="m_6261190798524109202gmail-MsoListParagraph" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN-AU"><span>-<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN-AU">We are committed to continue to investigate the signs and symptoms of
the disease that affects Mother Earth, to deepen the study of the problems that
arise locally, nationally and regionally, to generate evidence and the
elaboration of an "Interactive Planetary Therapeutic Guide".</span></p>
<p class="m_6261190798524109202gmail-MsoListParagraph" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN-AU"><span>-<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN-AU">We will promote local projects and actions for the repair and healing of
the wounds of Mother Earth, such as the proposal for Smart Cities or Towns to
promote the careful use of antibiotics, to take care of life itself.</span></p>
<p class="m_6261190798524109202gmail-MsoListParagraph" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN-AU"><span>-<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN-AU">In the face of the crisis of civilization that radically challenges us
now we believe that the University should take an active role by listening to
the people, and engaging in social and political processes that they have put
in place.</span></p>
<p class="m_6261190798524109202gmail-MsoListParagraph" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN-AU"><span>-<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN-AU">As scientists committed to society and nature, we reaffirm our
commitment to work for a science independent of the influence of transnational
corporations, with and for the people, following the example of Andrés
Carrasco. We denounce the attempt of agribusiness to impose new, highly risky
forms of genetic engineering, now under the name of "genomics",
intended to reach the market without evaluations regarding biosecurity. We
denounce the schemes from companies and groups with political and academic
power to push false "solutions" to increase their profits through
sales and patenting, and to avoid questioning the causes of various crises,
related to food, health, environmental or climatic conditions. We denounce the
strategy of systematic elimination of activists and defenders of our
territories at the global level, but especially in Latin America. We denounce
and reject the strategies of the governments at the service of the
Corporations, that drive actions such as the Covenant Mining (in Argentina),
the so-called "Seed Laws" which are, in fact, laws for the protection
of corporations, the delivery of our territories to economic power establishing
practices,<span> </span>which<span> </span>eliminate indigenous peoples and peasants. We
reject the attempt to release genetically manipulated mosquitoes in several
countries of the continent, as well as all the proposals to use, market and
release genetically manipulated animals, insects and microorganisms. We
strongly reject the proposals for tackling climate change that involve manipulation
of the climate, through geo-engineering. We demand that the authorities cease
to impose policies that protect the health of corporations, at the expense of
the health of the peoples and territories.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN-AU">All technologies, and
particularly new technologies, should be evaluated from the perspective of
society, with a multiplicity of visions and perspectives that involve academic,
scientific and other workers, neighbourhood and collective urban dwellers and
peasant farmers, environmentalists, gender and women's movements, indigenous
peoples, collective and popular health movements and others. We welcome the
initiative of the Network of Social Evaluation of Technologies in Latin
America, that includes many of the perspectives of the previous
socio-environmental Congresses.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN-AU"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN-AU">The road that we are
traveling may not be walked without being enriched and nourished by dialogue
with art and ancestral knowledge and so it is that the literature, music,
dance, theater, existential experiences which enrich and nourish us, are other
ways to express the stories of resistance for life; stories of love, freedom
and hope that are waiting to be told.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN-AU"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN-AU">We live in a world
dominated by corporations… a world in which, however, it is still possible to
build healthy resistance, from the meetings and dialogs that are born of
respect for diversity, cooperative processes, people’s own processes who know
how to take the time necessary to care for and to domesticate the seeds, which
allow the nurture of crops vital for the sustenance of life.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN-AU"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN-AU">These emancipatory
political plantings that enabled people to embody and make real the dream of a
sovereign future harvest for all, in territories thriving with health…</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN-AU"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN-AU">We can take on the
challenge of rebuilding our territories, recover a praxis that recognizes the
value of diversity and time as dimensions essential for the creation of a new
political order, and through the meetings of the collective, through
Cooperation, Humility, Solidarity, put a brake on extractivism, that was
imposed upon us, to give priority to the Health of<span> </span>Mother Earth over that of the corporations.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN-AU"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN-AU">During this week we
have nourished experiences, affections and commitments, projects and proposals,
dreams of health and healthy food, and reaffirm our commitment to Heal the
Planet, to retrieve the flow of life and continue to walk with the word, the
action, the memory and the know-how of our peoples and scientists, with the
commitment to life and Buen Vivir, building together a society just,
supportive, healthy and hopeful.</span></p>
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