On my plate, their territory
Human rights education through global food
Enabling secondary school students to trace the journey of their food back to the Peruvian Amazon communities that produce it. Through participatory workshops, a digital educational platform and a virtual exchange with Peruvian students, young people develop a critical understanding of the links between consumption, human rights and food justice.
Why this project
This project does not ask young people in France to commit to a distant cause: it shows them that they are already actors, through their everyday food, in a system that directly affects the rights of producing communities on the other side of the world. The issue is not solidarity, it is awareness.
Every day, young people in France consume food whose production chain remains largely invisible: the cocoa in their chocolate, the soy, the palm oil in their processed snacks, the coffee at breakfast. This invisibility perpetuates a discourse that naturalises the exploitation of indigenous lands and cultures to supply European markets.
The Achuar, Kukama, and Shipibo-Konibo peoples of Peru experience a double food rupture, which we have been able to verify first-hand during our field visits: their rivers and forests are degraded by extractivism linked to global supply chains, and when they migrate to cities they often lose access to their traditional food.
How this project is human rights education
Our school workshops are part of a human rights education (HRE) approach: education ON human rights (food and cultural rights recognised by ILO Convention 169 and the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples), BY human rights (active and participatory methods, direct voice of communities), and FOR human rights (developing the capacity to act as critical consumers and engaged citizens).
An approach built from the field
This project draws on direct knowledge of the Amazonian territory, acquired through field visits alongside Achuar, Kukama, and Shipibo-Konibo communities, as well as certified experience in school facilitation (WUS / Grenzenlos Globales Lernen, Germany) and digital communication.
What we offer
Three-hour participatory workshops in secondary schools, starting from students' plates and tracing back to producing communities.
Authentic video testimonies collected directly from Achuar, Kukama and Shipibo-Konibo communities, with explicit consent.
Interactive digital quizzes before/after the workshop, to measure the evolution of students' representations.
A freely accessible digital educational platform (interactive modules, maps, subtitled videos), published under a Creative Commons licence.
An authentic virtual meeting with students from École I.E. N°60112 San Pablo de Cuyana (Río Nanay, Loreto, Peru).
Who this project is for
Secondary school students in France (target: 150 to 300 students over 18 months, in 4 to 6 schools, with priority for REP/REP+ schools), as well as teachers trained to use the resources independently.
Project stages
Development of content and digital tools
Finalisation of video testimonies, creation of the platform, design of the workshop programme.
Pilot workshops
First workshops with pre/post quizzes, feedback collection and adjustments.
Expanded rollout
Extension to 4 to 6 schools, Creative Commons release, teacher training.
Virtual meeting and evaluation
Exchange between French and Peruvian students, participatory evaluation and dissemination of results.
After the project
Resources will remain freely accessible under a Creative Commons licence, with a downloadable facilitator guide: any teacher will be able to reproduce the workshops without support or cost, well beyond the initial funding period.