Brazil’s MST demands land reform
Activists from Brazil's Landless Movement (MST) are calling on the new President, Dilma Rousseff, to radically reform the country's old agrarian structures, which, they say, perpetuate inequality, injustice and violence.
Brazil: the ‘neoliberalisation’ of Embrapa
Horacio Martins de Carvalho, a leading rural analyst, laments the way Embrapa, the country's main agricultural research institute, has been turned into a tool of neoliberalism, even signing technical agreements with Monsanto. In Portuguese.
PEASANT AGRICULTURE IS THE ANSWER
Vía Campesina, the world-wide peasant organisation, argues that the 'green economy' is interested in profit, not people.
Brazil grabs land in Africa
Mozambique has offered Brazil five million hectares of land on which to grow soya, maize and cotton.
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.