Friday, March 29, 2024

Agriculture & Agribusiness

Paraguay: Can the deforestation be stopped?

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The Chaco region is under imminent threat of total deforestation

Mexico: Mayan farmers defeat ‘Gene Giant’ in latest court ruling

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Last week's quiet victory over Monsanto in Campeche may have huge implications for native Indian groups in the US and Canada.

Argentina – struggle continues for the Qom

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Representatives of the Qom indigenous people are camped in the iconic Plaza de Mayo to demand their rights. Life is worse today, they say, than under the military dictatorship

Colombia: Santos under pressure from rural activists

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Agrarian, indigenous and other communities and an emergent centre-left opposition are piling on the pressure in the run-up to presidential elections in May.

Advances in the Diaguita struggle

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In recent years the Diaguita indigenous communities in northern Chile have made real strides

GM war on Latin American peasants

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US agribusiness giant Dow is forcefully promoting GM crops designed to be resistant to herbicides which it markets aggressively.

Chile: no quick fix for Mapuche crisis

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President Bachelet is finding that dialogue is not enough to resolve Chile's long-running dispute with its Mapuche peoples.

Brazil: Plinio dies

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Leading left-wing intellectual Plinio de Arruda Sampaio has died.

Colombia: Is Santos’ re-election the best hope for peace?

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The peace talks in Cuba between FARC and the government have some way to go. But the re-election of Santos is helpful.

Paraguay – storms ahead

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President Cartes has called for Brazilian investors to "use and abuse" the country so it is scarcely surprising that Paraguayan peasants, driven off their land by Brazilian farmers, are feeling angry.

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