HONDURAS: News from a land occupation in Bajo Aguán
Consuelo Castillo, one of the organisers of a land occupation in Lempira, Bajo Aguán, says agribusiness has illegally pushed families off the land to turn it over to cultivation of palm oil for biofuel.
HONDURAS: Blood on those carbon credits
Long-standing land disputes in the Honduran countryside boil over as palm oil plantations (grown for ‘green energy’) displace more peasant families.
LAB Interviews Quintin Andino Flores
Summary of Interview with Quintin Andino Flores, Project Director of COCOCH (Consejo Coordinado de Organizaciones Campesinas de Honduras)
Brazil: pedagogy of the land
Brazil: Pedagogy of the Land. A group of 50 peasant farmers in the Brazilian state of Pará have brought out a remarkable book, entitled "Harvest in Times of Drought".
La Vía Campesina
LAB Interviews Rafael Alegría, Central America Coordinator for La Via Campesina, about a serious land conflict in Honduras (Spanish and English).
Interview with Vitalino Alvarez (VA) from the Movimiento Unificado Campesino de...
In Spanish and English.
Bolivia: second indigenous march
The new march against the controversial road through the indigenous territory, TIPNIS, is taking place in a much more complicated political context. Emily Achtenberg reports.
BRAZILIAN ORGANISATIONS CAMPAIGN FOR DILMA TO VETO THE FOREST CODE BILL
After the vote in the Brazilian Congress that passed a version of the Forest Code that drastically reduces protection for the Amazon rainforest and other forest areas, 200 environmental and social organisations have launched a...
ECO-AGRICULTURE FOR EL SALVADOR?
Salvadorean President Mauricio Funes has promised support and incentives for small-scale localised food production in an implicit criticism of the neo-liberal model.
Mexico: the fight for rights
Aurelia Rivas, a young Tepuehan Indian, spends her days travelling from ranch to ranch to speak to local residents, especially women. It's all part of the struggle to break the traditional gender inequalities.