Category Archives: Latin America
Shedding Light on Inequality in World’s Most Unequal Region
By Marianela Jarroud, cross-posted from IPS Teófila Anchahua raises guinea pigs in Peru’s southern highlands with the help of a microloan. Credit:Julio Angulo/IPS SANTIAGO, May 11, 2012 (IPS) – A new report takes a close look at the territorial distribution … Continue reading
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Report from the International Joint People’s Summit for Social and Environmental Justice in Rio
For the unity and mobilization of the people in defense of life and the common good, social justice and environmental against the commodification of nature and “green economy” Rio de Janeiro, May 12, 2012 A month before the UN Conference … Continue reading
NEW REPORT REVEALS DRIVERS OF UK BIOMASS EXPANSION AS BRAZILIAN SUZANO PAPEL E CELULOSE GAIN APPROVAL FOR LARGEST GM TREE PLANTATION TRIAL
Cross-Posted from Carbon Trade Watch London/Barcelona 14 May 2012: Earlier this month Brazilian pulp and paper giant Suzano Papel e Celulose gained approval for the world’s most advanced trial of genetically modified (GM) trees to meet the global demands of … Continue reading
Campign for the Freedom of Political Prisoners in Chiapas, Mexico Presses On
by Jessica Davies, 11 May 2012 Cross-Posted from UpsideDownWorld May 15 to 22 marks “the Week of Global Struggle for the Liberation of Alberto Patishtán Gómez and Francisco Sántiz López: bringing down the prison walls”, which was called by the … Continue reading
An Argentine Perspective on Degrowth
The theory of degrowth, which questions the validity of sustainable development, is viewed through a different lens in Argentina. By Marcela Valente, cross-posted from Tierramérica BUENOS AIRES, May 7 (Tierramérica) – The controversial concept of degrowth receives little press coverage … Continue reading
Filed under Latin America, Solutions
Mexico legislation underlines transformation in global warming debate
Cross-Posted from Reuters . –Rt Hon John Gummer, Lord Deben, is President of Global Legislators Organisation (GLOBE) and former UK Secretary of State for the Environment, and Rt Hon John Prescott, Lord Prescott, is a Member of GLOBE, and former UK Deputy … Continue reading
Urban Farming Takes Root in Brazil’s Favelas
By Fabiana Frayssinet, Cross-posted from IPS NOVA IGUAÇU, Brazil, May 2, 2012 (IPS) – Women in one of the poorest neighbourhoods of this city 40 km north of Rio de Janeiro no longer have to spend money on vegetables, because … Continue reading
Filed under Latin America, Urban agrciculture
Chile: youth wounded in raid on Mapuche village over Mapuche struggle for land
Cross-Posted from WW4 Report A 16-year-old Chilean youth was seriously wounded with metal pellets on April 20 when agents from the carabineros militarized police raided the indigenous Mapuche community of Temucuicui in the southern region of Araucanía. The youth, Lautaro … Continue reading
Filed under Indigenous Peoples, Land Grabs, Latin America, Political Repression
Statement: The Peoples’ Summit of the Americas vs the UN Rio+20 Summit
Statement of Teotihuacan 2012 Cross-Posted from the Red Ecologista Autónoma de la Cuenca de México lunes 7 de mayo de 2012 The Peoples’ Summit, parallel to the United Nations Rio+20 Summit, 20 years after Rio92 – the so-called United Nations … Continue reading
Brazil: Eucalyptus developer begins final GE tree field trial
Note: The article below shows the key role that industry hopes GE trees will play in the development of extreme agrofuels (jet fuel, biodiesel, cellulosic ethanol, what have you), by manipulating the trees’ lignin and cellulose content. They are trying … Continue reading
