The Genetic Memory of Corn and Cultures
May 4, 2015
In Mexico a judicial process is beginning to decide whether genetically modified corn will be widely planted here in the center of origin of corn. There is every reason against permitting this.
Category: Food Sovereignty
Grassroots Movement Blocks Water Privatization in Mexico
March 13, 2015
The ruling party (PRI) and its allies, the National Action Party (PAN), the Partido Verde and New Alliance, lost a battle when the General Water Law to privatize Mexico’s water resources was shelved in the Chamber of Deputies. Grassroots mobilization played a key role in the victory.
Brazil’s indigenous population can use their land, but are not its owners
October 28, 2014
The Brazilian Ministry of Justice emphatically affirmed, “all of the proceedings to identify and demarcate the lands of the indigenous Jaragua Guaraní in the […]
An indigenous nation in the industrialized heart of South America
September 23, 2014
The regions in the south and southeast of Brazil are the richest areas in the country and the most industrialized in Latin America. The southeast alone is responsible for 60% of GDP, and thus, in this region 90% of the population is concentrated in urban zones. In this geography of modernity there is also an indigenous territory that is in its death throes, the land of the Guaraní.
Paraguay: the return of social conflict
September 2, 2014
Two years after the fall of the Fernando Lugo government and one year after the rise of Horacio Cartes of the Colorado party, social movements show signs of rebuilding, with remarkable leadership of the campesino movement facing agribusiness and repression.
The Carrot, the Stick, and the Seeds: U.S. development policy faces resistance in El Salvador
August 15, 2014
True development in El Salvador will mean looking beyond U.S. money and the strings that always come with it.
Coffee, a crisis about to explode
August 5, 2014
The dual plagues of blight and price fixing are causing the scarcity and high prices of the fragrant bean, but the real problem for communities is the need to grow other foods.
NAFTA, Insecurity, Power Vacuums and Violence in Rural Mexico
May 31, 2014
Rural Mexico is experiencing a crisis in human security crisis. The drastic transformation of public policies toward the agricultural sector, induced by programs of structural adjustment and trade liberalization especially the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), created conditions for the emergence of the multiple forms of violence in Mexican agriculture.
Fight Against Monsanto Enters the Courtroom
April 28, 2014
The invasion of GM corn into Mexico threatens peasant farmers and the future of the native seed as powerful transnational companies lobby aggressively to get their way.
International Day of Farmers’ Struggles: What Haitian Farmers Organizations are Fighting For
April 20, 2014
FONDAMA highlights the challenges of achieving food sovereignty in Haiti while trying to protect and assist local producers as part of agrarian reform efforts.