Looking back, we collect the fruits of the Sustainable Earth Alliance and its predecessors (RIAD, APM Africa, among others) (3). The synergies generated allowed to create structures capable of forming peasant leaders, to develop proposals in response to critical challenges in rural areas, to produce on draft laws on our daily lives, to sensitize policy makers etc, etc. This human capital accumulated and the capacity of long-term action highlights our collective strength and skills to continue its work as Sustainable Earth Alliance.

What Alliance we want for 2010-2020? The future of the network must be an object of collective reflection and constructive criticism carried by all members and partners of the Alliance. The meeting of Nant (4) set the stage for this discussion. A consensual response resulting from the participation of all strengthen us as a platform, the risk of weakening if not define it as a whole.

Thinking about the future of Earth Alliance is to think of ways and methods of organization adapted to our Alliance. Think sustainable partnership is to consider the diversification of its funding, to build a structure organized around a transparent governance, to increase its value added by innovation, reflection and teaching.

Only a renewed Sustainable Earth Alliance, participatory, and fully accepted by its partners, enable us to meet the ambitious plans adopted by the International University Terre Citoyenne.

The support of the Charles Léopold Mayer Foundation (FPH) in this process of evolution is fundamental. As citizens and members of the Alliance, we must ensure the continuity of the efforts of financial and human investment made by FPH and Pierre Vuarin, founder and head of Sustainable Earth Alliance, from the 90's.

Because the land is not only the heritage of our ancestors, but a good that we provided to our descendants, we continue to work, continue to build this collective adventure that is the Sustainable Earth Alliance.