text: World Localization Day for 'crisis-ridden' world system - All Health Books
  Client cooperatives, native enterprise alliances, Transition Cities, permaculture tasks, native finance initiatives and extra will come collectively on 21 June 2022 to have fun the third World Localization Day.
  Grassroots organisations are bobbing up all around the world, and are proving invaluable in communities affected by local weather shocks and covid-related supply-chain failures, defined Helena Norberg-Hodge, convenor of World Localization Day.
  Norberg-Hodge launched the day on 21 June, 2020 to have fun and strengthen the motion, and encourage others by making the actions extra seen. The occasion grew in 2021, when 80 organisations hosted occasions in 30 international locations, on six continents.
  Current crises, together with the blockage of the Suez Canal to the Covid pandemic and the conflict in Ukraine, have highlighted the necessity for higher regional self-reliance.
  "It's turning into clear that dependence on world provide chains is dangerous, particularly in relation to fundamental wants. In the meantime, the local weather disaster calls for an instantaneous shift away from a resource-intensive, polluting world financial system – the identical financial system chargeable for the unconscionable hole between wealthy and poor," she mentioned.
  "On this context, localization–a method of bringing the financial system house – is a systemic option to handle our most urgent world issues," she added.
  Examples of localization actions from world wide embrace the island of Samsø in Denmark, the world's first island powered by 100% native, renewable vitality, the place greater than half of the island's 21 wind generators are owned by native farmers, and the whole neighborhood collectively selected the location of the generators.
  Within the US state of Colorado, the Mountain Roots Meals Venture runs a number of tasks to strengthen meals programs, together with a small farm; a multi-farm Neighborhood-Supported Agriculture (CSA) program, that includes farmers from across the area; neighborhood gardens the place members work collectively and share the harvest; and a meals rescue programme, connecting food-insecure households with extra produce from yard gardens and farms.
  And in Andhra Pradesh, India, the Deccan Improvement Society has created its personal seed banks, millet processing models, native meals shops, and eating places, and allowed ladies to take management of the market, by pushing the state authorities to redirect public subsidies away from mass-produced rice and wheat, and in the direction of their indigenous, climate-adapted, nutrient-rich, natural crops.
  Seeds are exchanged moderately than purchased nor bought, permitting the ladies to flee the volatility of corporate-run markets.
  World Localization Day will see on-line and in-person occasions all through the entire of June, together with talks, debates and workshops to native meals feasts, festivals and neighborhood celebrations, presenting systemic options to the "crisis-ridden world system", Norberg-Hodge mentioned.