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Green agriculture in Guatemala
Around the world, forests are being cleared to make room for farmland. But in Central America you can find encouraging examples of agriculture that supports human life and is also forest-friendly.Whoever flies over Guatemala's northernmost province, El Peten, will see large pastures cutting into the rainforest.
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Rights activists demand land reforms in Pakistan
Executive Director Pakistan Institute of Labour Education and Research (PILER) Karamat Ali said on Saturday that the 70 percent of the sitting national and provincial assembly members have feudal background and they happen to be major hurdle in introducing land reforms in the country.
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Cuban city struggling to recover a year after Hurricane Sandy
(Reuters) - A year after Hurricane Sandy left Santiago de Cuba in shambles, the streets are clear and power, communications and water are back to normal, but residents of Cuba's second city are still struggling with the aftermath of the mighty storm.
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This Land is our Land?
Imagine a country where ideologues bent on land reform turn agriculture into the plaything of the world’s richest investors, and poor local farmers are locked out of millions of acres prime agricultural land. Then stop imagining some African country run by a despot and his friends and start picturing the United States.
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The four sisters who took on Botswana's chiefs - and won
In many countries across Africa, the right of the firstborn male, or closest male relative, to inherit family property - is still standard practice. Women are denied the right to inherit the family estate purely because of their gender, a custom that is upheld by some traditional leaders.
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Women appeal for land rights
Women farmers in three districts of the Upper West region have expressed concern about the total absence of land rights for them despite their zeal to increase food production and family incomes.
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Un lien très clair entre politiques de l’Europe et accaparement des terres
Les paysans européens disposent généralement de titres de propriété. A moins de racheter leurs terrains à grands frais, impossible de leur ordonner de vider les lieux dans l’heure sous peine de les expulser de force.
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Día Mundial de la Alimentación - La marcha de las campesinas peruanas
"El 16 de octubre, en el Día Mundial de la Alimentación, más de mil mujeres marcharán para pedir al Gobierno que apruebe la Ley de Seguridad y Soberanía Alimentaria y Nutricional por ser un derecho fundamental de todos los peruanos. La norma se debatirá en breve en el pleno del Congreso, y es clave para el Perú, donde pese al crecimiento económico hay 13 millones de personas en situación de riesgo alimentario, sobre todo en Puno, Huánuco, Huancavelica, Cajamarca y Amazonas." Fuente: ANPE Peru
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