High temperatures have combined with the worst drought in half a century to wreak havoc on American farms and ranches. Some 80 percent of U.S. farm and pasture land experienced drought.

İçlerinde La Via Campesina’nın da yeraldığı bir grup örgüt, Birleşmiş Milletler Gıda ve Tarım Organizasyonu (FAO) genel direktörü Jose Graziano da Silva ve Avrupa Kalkınma ve Yatırım Bankası (EBRD)’nin politikalarını protesto için bir imza metn hazırladılar.

"In the agri-business value chain, there are various investment opportunities for institutional investors that go beyond the heavily criticised investment strategies of land grab and commodity speculation."

Relatos por la Soberanía Alimentaria en Radio Euskadi, 13 de septiembre de 2012

Será en el DCODE Festival, que se celebra este fin de semana en Madrid

El Polo Democrático Alternativo radicó Proyecto de Acto Legislativo para impedir que inversionistas foráneos compren tierras en grandes extensiones en territorio colombiano.

Rising populations and the development of biofuels are increasing demand for arable land all over the world, and Arrianna Marie Conerly Coleman says that small farmers are the first to suffer.

L'Union des associations et des coordinations d’associations pour le développement et la défense des droits des démunis a animé le lundi dernier, à Niamacoro, une conférence de presse pour faire le point de leurs doléances avec les nouvelles autorités maliennes.

Investments in industrial scale agriculture must balanced by equitable flow of benefits to smallholder farmers

Les menaces de trouble à l’ordre public ne sont pas voilées dans le film « Les palmiers de la colère ».

En lugar de seguir proponiendo y aprobando normas inconstitucionales como han sido los tres artículos tumbados del Plan Nacional de Desarrollo, el gobierno colombiano debería ayudar a que crecieran las semillas que ha sembrado la Corte: el respeto a la diversidad étnica y cultural y a la vía campesina del desarrollo rural.

A group of smallholder farmers in Mali have turned to the courts to try to recover land they say they have lost to big private investors. The legal action comes as foreign investors are losing interest in Mali due to political instability and an armed rebellion in the north.