We Acknowledge:

  • healthy ecosystems provide us with many life-giving services, including pollination, insect pest control, carbon and nutrient cycling, clean water, and erosion control.
  • the need of farmers to succeed economically while farming ecologically.
  • the right of farmers and indigenous peoples to maintain control over sustainable food production.
  • the right of consumers to know how and where their food is grown, and the responsibility of consumers to support ecologically sound agriculture.