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Los pueblos indígenas de América Latina y el Caribe se preparan para encontrarse en la Primera Cumbre Continental de Comunicadoras y Comunicadores Indígenas a realizarse del 8 al 12 de noviembre de 2010. Actividad que tendrá lugar en el Territorio de Convivencia, Diálogo y Negociación, Resguardo (…)

Une réforme du code forestier brésilien – législation environnementale innovante favorisant la protection des forêts brésiliennes d’origine, dont la région amazonienne – a été adoptée lors d’un vote extraordinaire du comité spécial du Congrès sur les modifications des lois forestières [en (…)

Esqueçam os especuladores e os agrocombustíveis. A verdadeira causa da contínua crise alimentar são as corporações do setor, porque espremem a agricultura, disse o professor holandês Jan-Douwe van der Ploeg. A Organização das Nações Unidas para a Agricultura e a Alimentação (FAO) reuniu em (…)

L’État de Oaxaca se distingue des autres États mexicains pour plusieurs raisons. Situé dans le sud du pays, il est délimité, au Nord, par les États de Puebla et de Veracruz, au Sud par l’océan Pacifique, à l’Est par l’État du Chiapas et à l’Ouest par l’État de Guerrero. D’une superficie de (…)

La SB 1070 firmada en abril en el Estado de Arizona, bautizado como Nazizona por la población latina, no es una fatalidad repentina y tiene mucho apoyo en Estados Unidos. Ya había antecedentes desde hace diez años. En Arizona se están cosechando las tempestades legales que contra los inmigrantes (…)

Les Roms, exclus de la privatisation des terres en Roumanie, cherchent à migrer vers l’Ouest. D’autres aussi sont refoulés de Grèce où ils étaient saisonniers agricoles, la crise les chasse devant elle. Ils font des allers-retours, ce qui pour une part d’entre eux signifiera arrivée « /au pays (…)

At the end of October, artists, hackers, teachers, lawyers and free culture activists of all kinds will converge on Barcelona for the second meeting of the Free Culture Forum (FCF). This is an international space for movements that have emerged across the world around the production, access, (…)

The role of major supermarkets like Tesco in wiping out small retailers across Europe is well known. Now the giants have India in their sights. For a country in which small-scale retail employs 33 million people, what kind of impact will this have? Read more

Despite at least £1.2 trillion of taxpayers’ money being put at risk to bail out the banking system, many of the major high street banks may well be asking for another hand-out from the public purse in 2011, according to new research from independent think-tank nef (the new economics (…)

Tous les couloirs des hautes sphères du pays bruissent de conversations au sujet de la quantité de nourriture qu’il faut donner aux pauvres du pays en application de leur droit. Doit-on donner 25 kg ou 35 kg de blé par personne et par mois à un prix fortement subventionné ?
Puis ils se (…)

The high corridors of the nation are abuzz with talk about how much food should be given to the country’s poor as a right. Should it be 25 kg of rice or 35 kg of wheat a month per person at highly subsidized rates?
Then they worry who should get this right to food. All who are poor, the very (…)

One of the major tasks that face progressive political forces in Sri Lanka today is to identify and tackle the major social contradictions generated by more than three decades of liberal economic policies. These interventions have to be at the local as well as global level. It now appears (…)

Common property resource (CPR) management has long been a significant arrangement in many parts of rural Southasia, playing an important economic and environmental role at the grassroots. N S Jodha, who worked until recently at the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development in (…)

Selon un rapport parlementaire présenté mercredi, la loi de 2008 qui encadrait la culture des OGM en France n’est guère appliquée ni applicable en l’état, sachant que nombre de décrets sont encore en cours de rédaction, voire de réflexion. Elle pourrait même devenir obsolète au vu des dernières (…)

The government of India is in the process of enacting a Food Security Act, even as 500 million people live with hunger and poverty while 46 percent children are undernourished in the country. The NFSA proposes to lower ration prices but also attempts to reduce the quantity of grain given to each (…)

The world has much to learn from Mohandas Gandhi. As we approach October 2, a look at his principles show that his relevance is greater now than it ever was... Read more

Although its record of reserve-based biodiversity conservation is striking, Beijing’s approach to the conservation of living natural resources outside reserves is less impressive. Pressures for economic development often eclipse complex ecological and cultural factors. This is especially true on (…)

Vivekanandan has worked with fishing communities for over a quarter-century. Most of that was spent with the South Indian Federation of Fishermen Societies, a cooperative organisation for small fishermen, of which he is currently advisor. He has started a new organisation, Fisheries Management (…)

É só no governo de Dilma que poderemos continuar lutando para transformar o crescimento em um outro tipo de desenvolvimento
O medíocre desempenho eleitoral de José Serra nesse primeiro turno é consequência do esgotamento do discurso tecnocrático que, durante a breve hegemonia da macroeconomia (…)

We, the undersigned organizations and individuals, mark the August 31st partial withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq with the following evaluation and recommendations: The U.S. occupation of Iraq continues and the reduction of U.S. troops in Iraq can at best be called only a rebranded occupation. (…)