Plurinational Land Reform in CA Working Group

Who We Are

The Plurinational Land Reform in CA Working Group (PLRCAWG) is a grassroots collective of young organizers, researchers, and students building campesin@ viability across California. Our environmental analysis focuses on the domination of industrial agriculture across California's food system — through monopoly control over markets, land, and inputs — pushing small, diversified campesin@s toward monoculture or out of farming entirely.

We challenge this by building the collective infrastructure that makes agroecological production economically viable. Rather than pursuing technocratic fixes, we center campesino viability and land tenure as the foundation of ecological health — recognizing that small farmers with secure access to land and dignified incomes are those most capable of sustaining agroecological practices over generations.

Agroecology, as practiced by our campesin@ partners, is not a product or methodology to be merely replicated — it is a living mode of social reproduction that inherently protects soil, water, and biodiversity when communities have the power to practice it on their own terms. Our direct collaboration with partners like the Coalición de Pequeños Agricultores and Líderes Campesinas ensures that the communities doing this ecological work are the ones defining its direction. You can learn more about our political framework in our Theory of Change section.