Mexico: climate change and food security
Mexico's harsh neo-liberal agricultural policies leave farmers highly vulnerbabe to the country's worst ever drought.
MEXICO:SURREAL LEADERSHIP ON FOOD SECURITY
Mexico's agricultural policies threaten its few successes, including the honey sector, and promote multinationals. Timothy A. Wise reports.
AMAZON BASIN: ENERGY WITHOUT DESTRUCTION
Wind and solar energy are much better ways of generating energy in the Amazon basin than the present plan for 150 large hydroelectric power stations, says Pedro Bara Neto, from WWF, in an interview with LAB.
“LULA AND DILMA HAVE PILLAGED THE AMAZON,” SAYS BISHOP
Bishop Erwin Kräutler, bishop of Xingu since 1980, decries the marginalisation of the indians and other Amazon communities, saying that Brazil is a 'civilian dictatorship'.
Rio+20: where are the favelados?
The conference slogan is "The Future We Want" but few local population have been asked what they think. Verena Brähler and Felicitas Röhrig report for LAB from Rio.
Rio+20: The Challenges of the Peoples’ Summit*
In an article published by IBASE, Jose Correa explores the current crisis of civilisation and the socio-political reconfigurations needed to address the environmental challenges ahead.
THE PEOPLES SUMMIT: ANOTHER AGENDA
The illusion in 1992 that capitalism could help solve the environmental crisis has gone, say Isabela Fraga and Monike Mar. Now civil society, gathered in Rio, knows that it has got to come up with its own solutions.
BOLIVIA: SECOND TIPNIS MARCH NEARS LA PAZ
Protest against the proposed road continues. Dario Kenner reports from Bolivia.
BRAZIL: DILMA’S “POISONOUS PROPOSAL”
President Dilma Rousseff's alternative proposal for the forest code weakens forest protection, say environmentalists.
“BUSINESS AS USUAL WON’T DO” AT RIO+20
Leading NGOs and trade unions offer an alternative agenda for sustainable development.