Brazil: the land grab hottens up
Foreign investors believe that Brazil could have 150 million hectares of under-used farm land
The Mandate of Manaus: Indigenous Action for Life
Marianne Arake, from LAB, has translated into English the important 'call for action' produced jointly by indigenous groups from the nine countries of the Amazon Basin after their meeting in Manaus.
Brazil grabs land in Africa
Mozambique has offered Brazil five million hectares of land on which to grow soya, maize and cotton.
Guatemala: Food Crisis in the Polochic Exacerbates as Government Repression Continues
Eviction of indigenous community in Guatemala.
Mexico: The Cost of U.S. Dumping
Timothy Wise examines the impact of NAFTA on Mexican agriculture.
Monsanto pushes GM maize
The biotech giant, Monsanto, is taking advantage of the havoc caused by bad weather in Mexico to push its GM maize (corn).
Argentina: further fall in beef exports
Argentina, once renowned throughout the world for the large herds of cattle roaming its pampas, has fallen behind Brazil, Uruguay and now even Paraguay in its beef exports.
Colombia: Multinational Banana Corporation Displaces Afro-Colombian Peace Communities
Since early December, hundreds of private contractors of multinational banana corporation Banacol have illegally invaded and occupied Afro-Colombian peace communities in the Curvaradó river basin in order to clear the land for banana cultivation.
Water Evaporates in Peru’s For-Export Crops
In Peru, water is in short supply because of the need to export agricultural produce. And the problem is getting worse.
The Campesino-to-Campesino agroecology movement of ANAP in Cuba
The Campesino-to-Campesino agroecology movement of ANAP in Cuba: Sustainable peasant agriculture, which first arose in Cuba in response to the economic crisis in the early 1990s, has been going from strength to strength.