Food

Brazilian socio-environmental organisations have launched a campaign to stop the country's forestry code from being drastically rewritten to favour agro-business.

Farmers threaten to burn seeds donated by Monsanto.

Keven Edmonds looks at how Bill Clinton destroyed Haiti's farmers.

BBC Radio 4's 'Costing the Earth' visits this precious ecosystem that is being destroyed at breakneck speed.

In a powerful radio documentary Gary Northan looks at the destruction of peasant communities caused by soya for biofuels.

Chile: Government gets tough with looters in the middle of the chaos – Terrestrial communications restored – the earthquake tests progress ♦ Guatemala: drug traffic reaches the head of police ♦ Brazil: sugar cane production due

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).