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Americas Program Commentary
Via Campesina Sets an International Agenda
Laura Carlsen | August 8, 2007
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Americas Program, Center for International Policy (CIP) americas.irc-online.org
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The peasantry has been portrayed historically as a backward sector, rooted in traditional productive practices and...
Written by Global Justice Ecology Project
Thursday, 02 August 2007
An overwhelming majority of governments, including Norway, Sweden, Germany and Indonesia expressed serious concerns about the risks of large-scale production of biofuels to forests, ecosystems, indigenous peoples and local communities at a meeting of the Subsidiary...
Dear Friends of the MST,
Through more than two decades of struggles, we have learned that it’s necessary to break, not just the fences of the latifúndio but also the barriers that impede access to knowledge. With this understanding, we are initiating our mobile schools and building more than 2,000 schools for basic teaching, besides the...
Chiapas: Zapatista Encuentro meets on contested turf
Submitted by Bill Weinberg on Thu, 07/26/2007 - 22:50.
Representatives of peasant organizations from across the globe have gathered in the southern Mexican state of Chiapas for the "Encuentro with the Peoples of the World," hosted by the Zapatista National Liberation Army (EZLN...
Brazil landless raid Reverend Moon cattle ranch
30 Jul 2007 19:22:30 GMT
Source: Reuters
By Andrea Welsh
BRASILIA, July 30 (Reuters) - At least 100 landless people have taken over a ranch in southwestern Brazil owned by South Korea religious leader Reverend Sun Myung Moon and evicted his followers, said police on...
Brazil's deadly land wars put indigenous leaders in firing line
By Natalia Viana
Published: 23 July 2007
It was 6.30am when the Brazilian indigenous leader Ortiz Lopes was called to his front door in Coronel Sapucaia, in the frontier state of Mato Grosso do Sul. According to his wife, the head of the embattled Guarani-Kaiowa...
Slave descendants invade Aracruz Brazil plantation
24 Jul 2007 20:18:43 GMT
Source: Reuters
BRASILIA, July 24 (Reuters) - Part of a eucalyptus plantation belonging to Brazilian pulp and paper company Aracruz was invaded by descendants of slaves claiming ownership, a company spokeswoman said on Tuesday.
As many as 500...
Biofuels, Biodiversity, and Our Energy Future
The Dark Side of Biofuels: Horror in the "Brazilian California"
Raúl Zibechi | July 23, 2007
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Brazil is staking its claim as a great emerging power thanks to the leadership it maintains in biofuel production. The price of this ambition is paid by the environment and by the...
Dear Friends of the MST,
We would like to share with you the results of our 6th National Congress on Agroecology, which has been organized every year since 2002. This congress gathers social movements, public institutions, researchers and small rural producers to debate and exchange experiences about different forms of agroecological...
The ecological and social tragedy of crop-based biofuel production in the Americas
Miguel A Altieri
Professor of Agroecology
University of California, Berkeley
Elizabeth Bravo
Red por una América Latina Libre de Transgenicos
Quito, Ecuador
The nations of the OECD—the Organization for Economic...