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Biofuels, Biodiversity, and Our Energy Future
The Dark Side of Biofuels: Horror in the "Brazilian California"
Raúl Zibechi | July 23, 2007
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Brazil is staking its claim as a great emerging power thanks to the leadership it maintains in biofuel production. The price of this ambition is paid by the environment and by the...
Dear Friends of the MST,
We would like to share with you the results of our 6th National Congress on Agroecology, which has been organized every year since 2002. This congress gathers social movements, public institutions, researchers and small rural producers to debate and exchange experiences about different forms of agroecological...
The ecological and social tragedy of crop-based biofuel production in the Americas
Miguel A Altieri
Professor of Agroecology
University of California, Berkeley
Elizabeth Bravo
Red por una América Latina Libre de Transgenicos
Quito, Ecuador
The nations of the OECD—the Organization for Economic...
Brazil Indian leader killed in land dispute-Church
09 Jul 2007 18:51:26 GMT
Source: Reuters
BRASILIA, July 9 (Reuters) - An Indian tribal leader fighting for land rights in southwestern Brazil was shot dead by a gunman who his wife said was acting on behalf of local ranchers, a Roman Catholic church watchdog said on Monday....
The biofuel myths
By Eric Holt-Giménez
Tuesday, July 10, 2007
INTERNATIONAL HERALD TRIBUNE
The term "biofuels" suggests renewable abundance: clean, green, sustainable assurance about technology and progress. This pure image allows industry, politicians, the World Bank, the United Nations and even the International Panel...
The MST's National School Florestan Fernandes, or in Portuguese, Escola Nacional Florestan Fernandes (ENFF) - ...
Friends of the MST (FMST) delegates to the MST's 5th National Congress have compiled a series of photos to share with the Solidarity Movement. You are fully authorized to utilize these photos for educational purposes ONLY, and you require no further permission to do so. We ask that any/all use of these images be accompanied by an FMST citation...
Biofuel demand to push up food prices
John Vidal
Thursday July 5, 2007
The Guardian
Food prices will rise in the next 10 years as nearly twice as much sugar cane, maize and oilseed rape is grown to fuel cars, and people in rapidly developing countries adopt meat-based diets, says the UN in its annual assessment of...
Brazil stages raid against debt slavery at Amazon sugar cane-ethanol plantation
The Associated Press
Published: July 3, 2007
BRASILIA, Brazil: Brazilian authorities said they raided an Amazon plantation where more than 1,000 laborers were found working 14 hour days in horrendous conditions cutting sugar cane for ethanol...
Protesters invade work site in attempt to stop Brazil river project
The Associated Press
Published: June 27, 2007
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil: Hundreds of protesters have invaded the site where army engineers are beginning work on a huge river-diversion project meant to irrigate Brazil's arid northeast, officials said Wednesday....