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People around the world are campaigning for a land-based energy and agricultural transition – whether in the Argentinean Río Negro, on the soils of Barnim or on the coast of Namibia. Follow us on Instagram Get to know some of them!
Real climate justice needs fair land distribution
The climate crisis has long since arrived on the field. Desertification, lack of rainfall and increasing soil erosion complicate the harvests of farmers and traditional land users worldwide*inside. They manage their land under increasingly difficult conditions and have to adapt to droughts, forest fires and increasingly scarce water resources.
Climate crisis in the field
The climate crisis makes it clear: The phase-out of the fossil energy system is urgently needed. And there is progress: In 2025, for the first time in the world, more electricity was generated from renewable energies than from coal, mainly thanks to the rapid expansion of solar energy.
But this success brings new challenges. In the Global South, large solar parks are displacing traditional land use concepts and smallholder structures. In many projects, the energy needs of the local population are hardly taken into account, instead energy is produced for export.
Renewable energy is booming, including on fertile soil
But that doesn't have to be the case. On the contrary: A forward-looking energy transition can strengthen rural structures and combat energy poverty and soil concentration.
That is why we are committed to an energy transition that reflects on distribution issues: Who owns the soil on which energy is produced and who uses it? For whose needs is energy produced – and at whose cost?
For an energy transition that raises the land question anew
These and other questions are discussed in our seminars in rural areas. There we bring together people who care about fair access to land and energy as well as a fair food system. Together, we analyze the causes of land conflicts and develop perspectives for a socially and ecologically just energy transition that poses the land question anew.
Further information and events
Here is an upcoming event on the subject: Right-wing narratives and arguments around land policy and land competition in the field of tension between energy transition and agriculture.
