In the context of the international campaign against land grabbing, Real World Radio offers this special section including testimonies of the resistance and the effects of this global process that goes against the rights of communities and the sovereignty of the countries.
This section will have the support of Grain through www.farmlandgrab.org, which includes interviews and reports about the global push for buying or renting crop lands in foreign countries as a strategy to ensure the supply of basic food or just as a way to make money.
31 October 2014 | Interviews | Sustainable Development Pinocchio Awards | Land grabbing
Friends of the Earth France are together with Action Aid France and CRID for the seventh year organizing the “Sustainable Development Pinocchio Awards” and has nominated the company “Crédit Agricole” as one of the three companies in the category ”One for all, all for me!” – a category that is awarded to the company that has the most aggressive policy in terms of land grabbing, exploitation or destruction of natural resources. Crédit Agricole has been nominated for its financing of the destruction of the Appalachians Mountains. Read more
31 October 2014 | Interviews | Meeting on Large-scale Monocultures in Latin America | Land grabbing
Even for a country as large as Brazil, the figures related to monoculture production are extremely high. The total surface area destined for agricultural production in the country amounts to 71 million hectares. Of these, between 30 and 31 million hectares are planted with soy, 15 million with maize and almost 10 million with sugarcane, according to data provided by the Brazilian Geography and Statistics Institute (IBGE). Read more
29 October 2014 | Interviews | Meeting on Large-scale Monocultures in Latin America | Land grabbing
There are many types of monoculture plantations in Mexico, including sugarcane and oil palm, which cause important impacts at socioenvironmental level. However, one of the main threats faced by the Mexican people is GM maize, said Evangelina Nuñez of the Collective for Autonomy and the Network in Defense of Maize, in an interview conducted during the "Latin American Meeting on Large-Scale Monoculture Plantations: Land Grabbing and Threats to Biodiversity and Food Sovereignty". Read more
21 October 2014 | Testimonies | Land grabbing | Soberanía Alimentaria en Uruguay
27 companies with a strong transnational component and European State capital control the same surface than 25 thousand agricultural and cattle farmers in Uruguay. Read more
15 October 2014 | Interviews | Meeting on Large-scale Monocultures in Latin America | Land grabbing | Social activists at risk
The history of industrial tree monoculture plantations in Chile includes all the negative elements that feature these production models in Latin America: land grabbing, corporate capture of the State, loss of biodiversity, plundering and displacement of native communities. Another of these common features is that the opening of these businesses took place under dictatorships. In 1974, a year after staging a coup in the country, Augusto Pinochet passed Decree Law 701 aiming to promote the development of forestry in the Andean country. Read more
13 October 2014 | Interviews | Land grabbing | Soberanía Alimentaria en Uruguay
In the context of the recent "Food Sovereignty Forum" of Uruguay, organized by REDES-Friends of the Earth, Movimiento por la Tierra and the Extension and Activities Service of the University of the Republic, the participants dealt with the impacts of agrotoxics on the ecosystem, water basins and rural people. Read more
10 October 2014 | Interviews | Land grabbing | Social activists at risk
The expansion of oil palm monoculture plantations in Indonesia has been huge these past years, advancing over biodiverse territories where millions of people from indigenous and rural communities live, such as the case of Kalimantan, the Indonesian part of Borneo Island. These monoculture plantations, out of which 70 percent of its production is exported, partly in order to produce agrofuels, covers 13 million hectares, and by 2020, the government plans to reach 28 million hectares planted with oil palm. This increase would necessarily take place by destroying the same number of hectares of native forests. Read more
9 October 2014 | Interviews | Meeting on Large-scale Monocultures in Latin America | Land grabbing
Since 2008, the Ecuadorian government has been developing a series of initiatives to establish a policy for agrofuel production in the country , with the financial support of USAID. Nathalia Bonilla, member of the organization Acción Ecológica talked about the reasons behind these initiatives, the mechanisms used, the consequences it implies in socioeconomic and environmental terms for rural and indigenous communities of the country, and the meaning of the implementation of the monoculture model for the political sovereignty of the country. Read more
8 October 2014 | Interviews | Meeting on Large-scale Monocultures in Latin America | Land grabbing
Several decades have passed since the first tree monoculture plantations were established in Latin America. The features of their establishment seem to be the same in the new countries of the region where this production model is advancing. In this interview with Winnie Overbeek, international coordinator of WRM (The World Rainforest Movement), we talked about the ways these monoculture plantations are being imposed, their socioenvironmental consequences and the new ways in which these crops continue to advance on the continent. Read more
30 September 2014 | News | Land grabbing | Social activists at risk | Misión solidaridad Malasia
In Malaysia, environmental defense and health concerns by communities are responded to with legal accusations of defamation, trials, police arrests and eventually prison. The criminalization of protests prevails. Several environmental defenders of Bukit Koman, Raub district, in the state of Pahang, Malaysia, can attest to that. Read more
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