• 19 February 2013 | Chronicles | Land grabbing | Social activists at risk

  

  Who are the invaders?

  Honduras: processes to recover lands to the north and west of the country by four thousand peasant families

  On February 17 and 18, three Honduran peasant organizations decided to occupy lands after a long and unsuccessful process to recover them, which was met with violent evictions and imprisonments. Read more

• 10 February 2013 | Special reports | Land grabbing

  

  Polochic: “they are taking our livelihoods away”

  Two years after the massacre that displaced 700 peasant families from Valle del Polochic (Guatemala): broken promises, hunger and resistance

  The violent eviction at Valle del Polochic, Guatemala, of 700 peasant Mayan indigenous families to give room for the ethanol industry, which took place in March, 2011, is remembered by Swedish journalist Lina Karlsson, of the Solidarity Sweden - Latin America. What has been the situation of the evicted families ever since? Who have been the beneficiaries of the state violence ordered by President Otto Perez Molina? Read more

• 30 January 2013 | Interviews | Summit of the Peoples - Santiago de Chile | Land grabbing | Social activists at risk

  

  A CELAC of the Peoples

  Interview with Diego Monton, of the Operational Secretariat of CLOC – Via Campesina

  The process of development of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC, created by the end of 2011) was one of the fundamental issues for several Latin American social movements present at the Summit of the Peoples in Santiago de Chile, that came to an end on Sunday. Read more

• 24 January 2013 | Community Radios | Land grabbing

  

  Tourism At All Costs

  In Panama, peasants struggle against land grabbing for tourism that criminalizes its subsistence agriculture

  Over three consecutive days, residents of Pedro Gonzalez island, in Archipielago de las Perlas, Balboa District, Panama, are carrying out protests against an order that bans the development of their traditional agriculture. This order authorizes the National Environment Agency (ANAM) to displace the community from their lands, which caused the reaction of the inhabitants of the island. Read more

• 16 January 2013 | Interviews | Summit of the Peoples - Santiago de Chile | Land grabbing | Social activists at risk

  

  “For a peoples’ project in Latin America”

  Interview with Francisca “Pancha” Rodriguez, of ANAMURI and CLOC – Via Campesina

  The headquarters of the Chilean Workers Union (CUT), in Santiago, capital of Chile, was chosen to hold the press conference that the organizers of the Summit of the Peoples, to take place from January 25 to 27 in that city, carried out on Friday to make the public and open call to this event. Read more

• 16 January 2013 | News | Land grabbing

  

  Supporters of Land Grabbing

  GRAIN reports about companies, institutions, states and people behind land grabbing

  Pension fund managers, bankers, agribusiness companies, oil-states and multilateral bodies such as the World Bank are some of the entities identified in a recent report by GRAIN as promoters of land grabbing in the Global South. Read more

• 4 January 2013 | Interviews | Victims of climate change | International Conference - El Salvador | Land grabbing

  

  “They Shall Not Pass”

  Uruguayan environmental activist warns about advance of agribusiness and land grabbing in the world

  “The policies of our governments have not really tried to address the structural causes of the food crisis, but on the contrary, they encouraged what is causing even more trouble: the advance of agribusiness and land grabbing”, said activist Karin Nansen, member of the executive committee of Friends of the Earth International. Read more

• 3 January 2013 | News | Land grabbing | Social activists at risk

  

  Solidarity and Struggle

  Friends of the Earth issues statement in response to murders and persecutions of peasants in Santiago del Estero, Argentina

  Friends of the Earth International (FoEI), the worldwide largest federation of grassroots environmental groups, expressed its solidarity with the families of Cristian Ferreyra and Miguel Galván, members of the Peasant Movement of Santiago del Estero (MOCASE), who were murdered in 2011 and 2012 respectively. The network also expressed its solidarity with all who support the fight against the advance of agribusiness in Argentina. Read more

• 26 December 2012 | Chronicles | Victims of climate change | Land grabbing | Social activists at risk

  

  Time of Change

  “Isla del Sol Manifesto” and a platform for future struggles

  Bolivian president Evo Morales called for a celebration in Isla del Sol, Titicaca Lake, on Friday, summer solstice, considered by native cultures of the American continent as the beginning of a new era. Several representatives of Latin American progressive governments and social movements participated in the event where Evo Morales read the “Isla del Sol Manifesto”. Read more

• 24 December 2012 | Interviews | Land grabbing | Social activists at risk

  

  Empowered Communities

  Interview with Environmental Activist David Kureeba, FoE Uganda

  If we want to protect biodiversity, local communities and indigenous peoples should be in charge. The use of traditional knowledge should be promoted as opposed to genetically modified organisms (GMO), said activist David Kureeba, of Friends of the Earth Uganda. Read more

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