Mapuches turn up heat in drive for traditional lands

August 2009

Colombia

Another climate-change worry for coffee growers

For coffee growers, climate change forecasts already are worrisome enough, calling as they do for severe droughts and higher-intensity hurricanes. But a new study suggests ......

International stakeholders ranging from agribusiness executives to green advocates have drafted standards that they claim will ensure global soybean farming is economically viable, socially equitable ......

Colombia

Panama dam-in-progress draws heavy fire

The last few months have not been easy for Panama’s government and its efforts to build a hydroelectric station on the edge of the 988,000-acre ......

Chile

Salmon industry revamp debated in Chile

As Chilean salmon farms struggle with disease, debt and reports of over-dependence on chemicals, congressional legislation aimed at reforming and reviving the sector has unleashed ......

Brazil

Brazilian government pressed to back Redd

For years, Brazil has appeared reluctant to join global efforts to curb greenhouse-gas emissions through forest conservation. Specifically, it has balked at embracing Reducing Emissions ......

Around the Region

Mapuches turn up heat in drive for traditional lands

The Mapuche Indians in southern Chile stepped up protests against timber companies last month, occupying several logging sites in the 9th Region, burning vehicles and ......

Centerpiece (Free Read)

Cement plan galvanizes Dominican greens

Sometimes a single development project can prove catalytic for a country’s environmental movement. Such might now be the case in the Dominican Republic, where a ......

Q&A

Center for Food Safety’s Freese critiques GM-soy model

Bill Freese is science policy analyst at the Center for Food Safety, a nonprofit organization based in Washington, D.C. that promotes sustainable agriculture and stricter ......

Mapuches turn up heat in drive for traditional lands

The Mapuche Indians in southern Chile stepped up protests against timber companies last month, occupying several logging sites in the 9th Region, burning vehicles and engaging in violent conflicts with local police. After being rebuffed in their efforts to meet with Chilean President Michelle Bachelet in early July, the Mapuches mounted a campaign to pressure the government to meet their long-standing demands, the principal one being recovery of ancestral lands now owned by timber companies. Since July 23, Mapuche communities supported by members of a militant group called Coordinadora Arauco Malleco (CAM) have occupied seven timber sites. As of mid-August, efforts to end the protest action had failed. “We were only demanding the recovery of some land; but after the way this racist... [Log in to read more]

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August 2009

Colombia

Another climate-change worry for coffee growers

For coffee growers, climate change forecasts already are worrisome enough, calling as they do for severe droughts and higher-intensity hurricanes. But a new study suggests ......

Brazil

Soy farming standards feed sustainability debate

Colombia

Panama dam-in-progress draws heavy fire

The last few months have not been easy for Panama’s government and its efforts to build a hydroelectric station on the edge of the 988,000-acre ......

Chile

Salmon industry revamp debated in Chile

As Chilean salmon farms struggle with disease, debt and reports of over-dependence on chemicals, congressional legislation aimed at reforming and reviving the sector has unleashed ......

Brazil

Brazilian government pressed to back Redd

For years, Brazil has appeared reluctant to join global efforts to curb greenhouse-gas emissions through forest conservation. Specifically, it has balked at embracing Reducing Emissions ......

Around the Region

Mapuches turn up heat in drive for traditional lands

The Mapuche Indians in southern Chile stepped up protests against timber companies last month, occupying several logging sites in the 9th Region, burning vehicles and ......

Centerpiece (Free Read)

Cement plan galvanizes Dominican greens

Sometimes a single development project can prove catalytic for a country’s environmental movement. Such might now be the case in the Dominican Republic, where a ......

Q&A

Center for Food Safety’s Freese critiques GM-soy model

Bill Freese is science policy analyst at the Center for Food Safety, a nonprofit organization based in Washington, D.C. that promotes sustainable agriculture and stricter ......