Paraguay and the Soya Invasion
In a powerful radio documentary Gary Northan looks at the destruction of peasant communities caused by soya for biofuels.
Brazil: Can the Cerrado be saved?
BBC Radio 4's 'Costing the Earth' visits this precious ecosystem that is being destroyed at breakneck speed.
Empty Promises and Empty Bellies
Keven Edmonds looks at how Bill Clinton destroyed Haiti's farmers.
Brazil: SOS Forests — the Forest Code is in Danger
Brazilian socio-environmental organisations have launched a campaign to stop the country's forestry code from being drastically rewritten to favour agro-business.
Bitter fruit: pineapples in Costa Rica
Pineapples in Costa Rica: Over the last decade intensive agriculture has led to a big surge in pineapple production in Costa Rica but at horrific cost to workers, peasant families and biodiversity. Felicity Lawrence takes an in-depth l
Brazil: massacre of rural workers
The Catholic Church’s Pastoral Land Commission says 13 rural workers have been massacred in the Amazon. Their report has been ignored by the national press.
Guatemala: Inequality, not food shortages, to blame for food crisis
Weak, regressive tax regimes lead to poverty and government underfunding fails to redress the balance. Christian Aid reports.
Peasants are Victims of the Cornering of the Land Market in...
Peasants are suffering the effects of a land grab, stimulated by governments, anxious about their food security, and by multinationals, keen to cash in on agrofuels (In English and French).