A travelogue in the best traditions
Who could ask for more? A supremely well-written travelogue whose authors are trade unionists and journalists with a deep interest in the societies they visit.
Latin America on a Dangerous Precipice
FAO optimism about eliminating hunger ignores climate change, which will present a big risk for the continent.
Central America calls for climate justice
Civil society organisations in Central America, one of the regions most affected by climate change, are calling on their governments to defend the interests of peasant families in the upcoming UN climate negotiations in Lima.
Central America: Devastated by ‘Free Trade’
Warnings about the human and environmental costs of 'free trade' went unheeded. Now the most vulnerable Central Americans are paying the price.
Brazil: Christmas hamper from the MST
Brazil's landless workers movement launches a Christmas hamper of products to promote organic food produced on small family farms
Brazil: Why land demarcation matters to indigenous people
Marking out land is to stake out rights, ownership, stewardship. Unmarked land can just be seized. Felipe Garcia, a volunteer at the Munduruku Demarcation Mission, explains.
Land in Brazil 2
MST leader João Pedro Stédile says that "political reform" is the only solution for the country's political crisis
Brazil — castigated by forest fires and dam bursts
With some of the largest forest fires in decades and a burst dam resulting in the country’s worst environmental disaster to date, it has...
Brazil — GM crops may be causing cancer
Brazil's National Cancer Institute is concerned about the health of the country's population, now that glyphosate, widely used in the cultivation of soya, has been classified as a "probable carcinogen".
Colombia ends fumigation
In a surprising move Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos has decided to end the spraying of Monsanto's Round Up as a means of eradicating coca.