GRAIN produced an outstanding report evaluating the resounding clamor to shift funding away from industrial agriculture and toward agroecology in order to achieve food sovereignty. While it’s true that we need to resource and strengthen agroecology, the idea that it’s matter of moving money around, or pointing institutions in a different direction, is not as straightforward as it sounds. What’s concerning today is a tendency, on the side of movements and their allies, to try to leverage the same money and actors who are driving the problem as a platform or stepping stone to the solution. Very often we hear people saying that the task is not just to stop the funding of industrial agriculture (today’s equivalent of the Green Revolution), but to put those funds to work for agroecology or small farmers “instead”. While it’s absolutely true that money is needed to move many initiatives forward, this binary kind of thinking – as if it were a matter of flipping a switch – can depoliticise the issue and turn it into a trap.