16 October: World Food Sovereignty Day
The economic development model promoted by global power has already clearly shown that it leads to social and environmental disaster, both on a local and on a global scale. Climate (Read More)
OUR VIEWPOINT
FOOD SOVEREIGNITY vs. AGROFUELS
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Via Campesina: Food Sovereignty as the peoples’ alternative to destructive agribusiness
Via Campesina is an international and intercultural movement that coordinates national and regional organisations of small farmers, peasants, rural women, landless peasants, agricultural workers, indigenous peoples, migrants, fisherfolk and men (Read More)
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Colombia: “Green washed” palm increases threats to food sovereignty and human rights
It seems like a slap in the face. The oil palm agro-industry has chosen precisely 16 October, World Food Sovereignty Day, and the Latin American country most hit by oil (Read More)
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Why certification of agrofuels won’t work
Arguments in favour of certification often explain that a company wanting to sell its products as sustainably produced has to have some way of proving this. A consumer who wants (Read More)
COMMUNITIES AND FORESTS
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Ghana: Newmont Mining Corp. threatens Ajenjua Bepo Forest and neighbouring communities
The US-based Newmont Mining Corporation, one of the world’s largest producers of gold, has plans to place an open pit gold mine in the Ajenjua Bepo Forest Reserve in the (Read More)
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India: the Police and the Forest Department attack women that fight for their lands
In yet another incident, the tribal and dalit women of village Harna Kachar, Sonbhadra district of Uttar Pradesh, had to bear the brunt of atrocities by the Police and the (Read More)
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Mexico: Massacre of indigenous people and peasants safeguarding their territories
The organization Maderas del Pueblo del Sureste, A.C. reported in a recently issued communiqué that on 3 October, a brutal police operation took place, violating the most basic human, individual (Read More)
COMMUNITIES AND TREE MONOCULTURES
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Brazil: Fisher-folk affected by Aracruz Celulose close the company’s private port
A pulp mill seriously alters the micro-region where it is installed and generates a series of problems that mainly affect traditional peoples. Aracruz Celulose S.A. (ARCEL) built the Barra do (Read More)
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Indonesia: Pulp mill impacts on health of local population
It has been 63 years after Soekarno-Hatta proclaimed the independence of the Indonesia Republic on August 17, 1945. Every August especially on the 17th, Indonesians all along the archipelago celebrate (Read More)
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Malaysia: Indonesian children and migrant workers enslaved in oil palm plantations
Oil palm firms are making a fortune in Malaysia particularly with the current agrofuel rush. But none of it goes to those who put their blood and flesh to make (Read More)