Tuesday, March 19, 2024

Agriculture & Agribusiness

Bolsonaro: from bananas to pineapples

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São Paulo, April 5: ‘If he sees a banana skin on the pavement across the road, he will cross over to slip on it’,...

Colombia: chocolate of peace

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A film by Gwen Burnyeat and Pablo Mejía Trujillo about the Peace Community of San José de Apartadó. Chocolate of Peace depicts the Peace Community...

Venezuela: food as bullets

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This post by Lisa Sullivan is from her own blog, Lisa's Venezuela. February 27, Palo Verde. As the Humanitarian Aid Battle revved its engines on...

Brazil: gunmen attack indigenous community in Porto Alegre

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It is not only in the Amazon and remote rural areas that indigenous lands are coming under increased pressure as the new Bolsonaro government...

Amazon soya boom threatens landless

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Brazil’s 1988 constitution and other laws established the right of landless peasants to claim unused and underutilized lands. Thousands, with the support of...

Bolsonaro’s people: the Amazon, indigenous and landless at risk

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President-elect Jair Bolsonaro has chosen Ricardo Salles as Brazil’s environment minister. The former São Paulo state government environment secretary is under investigation for...

Amazon Besieged: Q&A with author Sue Branford

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From 2016 to 2017, Mongabay contributors Sue Branford and Maurício Torres traveled to the Tapajós River Basin, in the heart of the Brazilian...

Chile: Killing of Mapuche activist provokes large protests

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By: Rodrigo Acuña. Source: LAB The recent death of the 24-year-old Mapuche activist and leader Camilo Catrillanca has sparked widespread condemnation and protests throughout Chile. On...

Amazon Besieged – by dams, soya, agribusiness and land-grabbing

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The Tapajós River, a major tributary of the Amazon, is renowned for its extraordinary biodiversity and the vitality of its indigenous and riverine communities....

Amazon Besieged

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As LAB prepares to launch its new and powerful book*, co-author Sue Branford issues a stark warning of the implications of a Bolsonaro government...

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