Bitter aftertaste? Food companies could face costly disputes over land in Africa Adela Suliman Thompson Reuters Foundation February 24, 2019
Brazil to open indigenous reserves to mining without indigenous consent Sue Branford and Maurício Torres Mongabay March 14, 2019
Brazil agriculture minister wants to open indigenous land to commercial farming Jake Spring and Anthony Boadle Reuters January 18, 2019
Indigenous people, the first victims of Brazil’s new far-right government Mario Osava Inter Press Service January 10, 2019
Photo: Hamilton Lopes and his daughter, members of the Guarani indigenous community, stand in front of their hut, where their family lives a precarious existence on land that has not been demarcated, where they face threats of expulsion, on Brazil’s border with Paraguay. Large landowners seize the lands of the Guarani, the second-largest native community in the country, causing a large number of murders and suicides of indigenous people. Credit: Mario Osava/IPS See original article.
Argentina’s indigenous people fight for land rights Daniel Gutman Irin News January 12, 2019
Image: Mary Tembo displays her homegrown organic seeds at her farm in Chongwe, Zambia.
In December, 2018, the United Nations General Assembly approved the Declaration on the Rights of Peasants and other People Working in Rural Areas The declaration formally extends human rights protections to farmers whose “seed sovereignty” is threatened by government and corporate practices. Credit: Timothy A. Wise
U.N. backs seed sovereignty in landmark peasants’ rights declaration Timothy Wise Foodtank December, 2018
“On December 17, the United Nations General Assembly took a quiet but historic vote, approving the Declaration on the Rights of Peasants and other People Working in Rural Areas, by a vote of 121-8 with 52 abstentions. The declaration, which was the product of some 17 years of diplomatic work led by the international peasant alliance La Via Campesina, formally extends human rights protections to farmers whose “seed sovereignty” is threatened by government and corporate practices. ”