• 12 March 2014 | Interviews | All for the release of the political prisoners of Santa Cruz Barillas | Land grabbing | Social activists at risk

  

  “La Puya”: Second year of peaceful struggle against mining project that would affect over 40 thousand families. Interview with one of its spokespeople.

  March 2nd marked two years since the beginning of the resistance on the border between San Jose del Golfo and San Pedro Ayampuc municipalities, outside Guatemala city, at a place known locally as “La Puya” . Members of various communities and organizations are blocking access to “El Tambor”-Progreso VII, a gold mining project operated by EXMINGUA company with a 25-year concession. Read more

• 6 March 2014 | Interviews | Land grabbing

  

  Palm Oil in Uganda

  Interview with David Kureeba, Friends of the Earth Uganda

  Large-scale palm oil monoculture production in Uganda has led to a process of destruction of forests, which are key ecosystems for the lives of several communities in the country. Read more

• 25 February 2014 | Development Talk | Land grabbing

  

  Community Forestry Management Agreements?

  A new smoke screen for land grabs?

  Since the 2012 moratorium on and subsequent cancellation of Private Use Permits (PUPs) in the last quarter of 2013, there has been an alarming rise in the number of applications for Community Forestry Management Agreements (CFMAs) across the country. There are concerns that logging operators previously operating illegal PUPs are now pursuing CFMAs as an alternative to allow them to continue to harvest timber in Liberia. Read more

• 19 February 2014 | Special reports | Land grabbing

  

  Always the money

  What’s driving the palm oil industry’s human rights abuses and environmental destruction? Just follow the money

  Jeff Conant, Friends of the Earth United States If you’re an American looking to do your part to protect tropical rainforests, you need look no further than your kitchen pantry. As you’ve likely heard by now from Friends of the Earth and others, the world’s leading killer of tropical forests is palm oil — and palm oil derivatives are in your cookies, your ice cream, your shampoo, and — I’m sorry to tell you this — in your chocolate. Read more

• 11 February 2014 | Testimonies | Land grabbing

  

  Veracruz, Mexico: resistance against the building of 112 dams, many of them without authorization or previous consent by communities

  In Veracruz, to the South of Mexico, there are plans to build 112 dams and 6 hydroelectric power plants without authorization by communities, who in the past weeks have mobilized in different municipalities of La Antigua River basin and managed to get the government to intervene throught an inspection of Odebrecht construction company, whose works could cause flooding in several territories. Read more

• 24 December 2013 | News | Land grabbing | Social activists at risk

  

  How Seeds Were Privatized in Colombia: A Documentary by Victoria Solano

  The documentary 970 tells the story of a group of Colombian peasants who had 70 tons of rice seized and destroyed by the government to defend the interests of transnational corporations under the Free Trade Agreement Colombia signed with the United States. Read more

• 10 December 2013 | Development Talk | Land grabbing

  

  Equatorial Palm Oil vs. local communities

  In the past year, a situation of escalating tension has arisen inside the proposed expansion zone for Equatorial Palm Oil, a British company that holds a lease for a large amount of land in Grand Bassa County District no. 4. The community dwellers were not informed about the contract before it was signed, and were never given the chance to agree or disagree to allowing palm oil development on their land. The situation has become very volatile and tense. What is the best way to redress community grievances? Read more

• 5 December 2013 | Testimonies | 5th REDLAR Meeting | Land grabbing

  

  Andean Inspiration

  The Struggle Against Megamining and Dams in Argentina

  Nicolas Vazquez is part of the groups resisting the building of dams and the installation of mining megaprojects in the Bariloche ski resort, Rio Negro province, Argentina. They were inspired by the groups that organized in response to the country’s economic crisis in 2001. Read more

• 12 November 2013 | News | International Seminar “Food, Water and Energy are not Commodities” | Land grabbing

  

  "The silent land, labor and sweat"

  The Agriculture and Land Issue in Andalucia

  With a population of over 8 million people, the autonomous community of Andalucia is one of the regions most seriously affected by the European crisis. Its unemployment rate has reached 36%, in some areas it is as high as 44%. 60% of the young population are unemployed. “In view of this reality you have to fight or die”, said Mari Carmen of the Trade Union of Countryside Workers (SOC, Via Campesina) in her presentation on food at the International Seminar “Food, Water and Energy are not Commodities”, held in Bilbao, Basque Country, from October 29 to 31. Read more

• 4 November 2013 | News | Land grabbing

  

  Blue October

  Water Reform in Uruguay Under Threat

  Environmental organization REDES-Friends of the Earth Uruguay joined the international celebrations of Blue October last Thursday. Blue October is a month of global celebration of the human right to water. The organization warned that the water reform adopted in Uruguay on October 31, 2004, is not being implemented. Read more

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