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Brazil: the ‘neoliberalisation’ of Embrapa

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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

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Vía Campesina, the world-wide peasant organisation, argues that the 'green economy' is interested in profit, not people.

Brazil: tension in Sister Dorothy’s settlement

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Six years after Sister Dorothy Stang was murdered, settlers are once more being threatened by loggers near where she lived in the state of Pará.

New role for banana skins

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A Brazilian scientist has discovered that the much derided banana skin can play an important role in cleaning rivers polluted with heavy metals.

Honduras: Campesinos Expelled Like ‘Vermin’

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More human rights abuses as campesinos are evicted in the Bajo Aguan with nowhere to go.

Venezuela: protest letter in the Guardian

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Leading activists and thinkers criticise the Guardian newspaper for failing to report on a 10,000-person march in Caracas to demand justice for the hundreds of peasant activists assassinated by wealthy landowners.

Brazil: energy policies under the spotlight

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As the government continues to push ahead with its highly controversial Belo Monte hydroelectric power station, despite legal obstacles, Francis McDonagh has been following the debate over Brazil's energy policies.

PERU: Indigenous protests lead to talks

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Indigenous communities in the Peruvian Amazon force oil companies to talk

Brazil: Campaign of terror against Amazon community

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Loggers, keen to expel rubber-tappers from timber-rich land in the state of Amazonas in the Brazilian Amazon, are terrorising families, with the cumplicity of the local police force. A report from Pública, one of LAB's partners in Brazil.

Colombia: human rights organisation wins award

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Human rights activist wins award for her organisation's struggle to regain land violently seized by paramilitary groups. Article, in Spanish, from La Semana.

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