Paraguay Lifts Restrictions on Transgenic Corn
The Franco government has approved the cultivation of genetically modified corn and cotton, but a new movement is seeking to oppose the measure.
MEXICO: FARMERS TAKE ON THE MINING COMPANIES
Mexican farmers are up in arms against mining companies that threaten their communities.
PARAGUAY: AGRIBUSINESS AND BIOTECH COMPANIES WIN OUT
The impeachment of President Lugo, rushed through Congress, was has clearly benefited big landowners and the powerful biotechnology companies. LAB reports.
PARAGUAY: BRAZILIAN EXPANSIONISM
The rapid growth of large soya monocultures, mainly in Brazilian hands, is leading to 9,000 peasant families being forced off their land each year. This is fuelling land conflict, says Perla Álvarez, from the rural women's organisation, Conamuri.
BRAZIL: MONSANTO FACES BILLION-DOLLAR PAYBACK
Monsanto has appealed against a Brazilian court ruling that it should pay back to Brazilian farmers all of the taxes collected since 2004 — a minimum of 2 billion dollars.
Mexico: climate change and food security
Mexico's harsh neo-liberal agricultural policies leave farmers highly vulnerbabe to the country's worst ever drought.
MEXICO:SURREAL LEADERSHIP ON FOOD SECURITY
Mexico's agricultural policies threaten its few successes, including the honey sector, and promote multinationals. Timothy A. Wise reports.
PEASANT AGRICULTURE IS THE ANSWER
Vía Campesina, the world-wide peasant organisation, argues that the 'green economy' is interested in profit, not people.
Statement by Engelberto Domínguez, President of the Asociacion Campesina Nacional (ACAN)...
In Spanish and English.
LAB Interviews Quintin Andino Flores
Summary of Interview with Quintin Andino Flores, Project Director of COCOCH (Consejo Coordinado de Organizaciones Campesinas de Honduras)