Mexico: climate change and food security
Mexico's harsh neo-liberal agricultural policies leave farmers highly vulnerbabe to the country's worst ever drought.
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.
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.
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 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.
ARGENTINA: two convicted over use of agro-chemicals
A provincial court in Argentina has found two people guilty of illegally spraying agro-chemicals close to a residential area in Cordoba.
MEXICO: FARMERS TAKE ON THE MINING COMPANIES
Mexican farmers are up in arms against mining companies that threaten their communities.
Guatemala: dawn of a new banana age?
Signs that workers and the large transnational banana companies are working together to improve conditions in the industry
Colombia: Poverty falls but the gaps widen
Between 2002 and 2010 poverty fell in Colombia, though less than in other Latin American countries. But the gaps, especially between the main urban centres and rural areas, widened.
Brazil: Forest code vote shows strength of agribusiness lobby
With the new Forest Code approved by the Senate, the agribusiness lobby presents President Dilma Rousseff with a new challenge: how much will she veto?