Founded in 1980, SOL, which stands for ” Agroecological and Solidarity Alternatives “, works to develop sustainable agriculture and protect cultivated biodiversity.
The association is present in Senegal and France; and since 1980 in India, where it works in collaboration with the Navdanya association, founded by Indian activist Vandana Shiva, alternative Nobel Prize in 1993, for the empowerment of rural communities in the North.