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New Report: “Selling off our forests is a business for the Peruvian government”
New report finds that the Peruvian government is failing to address the real causes of deforestation in the Peruvian Amazon while undermining indigenous peoples’ efforts to protect their forests.
Paraguay Police Repress Displaced Campesinos Fighting for Land
Date: 3 January 2017
Source: Telesur
A land conflict continues to brew after some 200 campesino families were evicted from the Guahory community in September.
Remise en cause des lois foncières et semencières : qui tire les ficelles des changements en Afrique ?
Source:GRAIN
Le lobby qui cherche à industrialiser la production alimentaire en Afrique modifie aussi la législation semencière et foncière pour qu'elle serve les intérêts de l'industrie agroalimentaire. L'objectif final est de transformer ce qui a longtemps été considéré comme un bien commun en Afrique en une marchandise commercialisable que le secteur privé peut contrôler et dont il peut retirer des profits, au détriment des petits agriculteurs et des communautés.
The RCEP, IPRs and the threat to traditional farming
The stringent intellectual property rules being pushed for adoption by some RCEP members will have an adverse effect on the livelihoods of small and traditional farmers in poorer member states, warns Shalini Bhutani.
The Land Battle: 15 Organizations Defending Land Rights
The Huffington Post
The Land Battle: 15 Organizations Defending Land Rights
Posted: 07/29/2015 4:22 pm EDT Updated: 07/29/2015 4:59 pm EDT