2010

• Africa: The huge value of mangroves for communities

2009

• Food Sovereignty: A positive approach to climate change
• Bangladesh: losing mangroves to shrimp farming leads to food loss and environmental insecurity
• Mekong Citizens to Hand 15,000 Signature “Save the Mekong” Petition to Thai PM
• India: Jatropha plantations destroy the livelihoods of poor local communities
• Uganda: BIDCO Oil palm plantation expansion will further put at risk local communities livelihoods
• Venezuela: Seizure of Smurfit tree plantations sets new course for the future

• Save the Mekong, a coalition to keep the river alive

• Papua New Guinea: Women against further expansion of oil palm

• Brazil: Women impacted by eucalyptus plantations speak out

2008

• Ecuador: Government will hand over mangroves belonging to the Ecuadorian people to the shrimp farming industry
• 16 October: World Food Sovereignty Day
• Via Campesina: Food Sovereignty as the peoples’ alternative to destructive agribusiness
• Colombia: “Green washed” palm increases threats to food sovereignty and human rights
• A Green Revolution for Africa: disaster in the making

• Africa: Food sovereignty threatened by AGRA FR PRT

• Forests, agrofuels and policies of hunger

• Zambia: Grabbed by the agrofuel stampede

• Special Bulletin on Water, Forests and Climate

2007

• Biofuels: A potentially positive solution turned into a serious threat to the South

• Brazil: Agro-fuels represent a new cycle of devastation of the Amazon and Cerrado regions

• Facing the biofuel rush: Land must be used to feed people, not cars

2006

• Brazil: Energy sovereignty vs. food sovereignty

• Declaración Conferencia Especial para la Soberanía Alimentaria, por los Derechos y la Vida - Brasilia, 10 – 13 April 2008 - Only Available in Spanish

• In Defence of Food Severeignty and Biodiversity - We oppose a second "conquest of the desert" through biofuels - Fiske Menuco, May 2007 - Also available in Spanish

• Food security, poor farmers, and environmental impact are not often discussed when talking about bio-fuels - By Daniel Cassol, March 2007 - MST Informa - Revista Sem Terra (Ed. 38) Also available in Portuguese

• We want food sovereignty, not biofuels - Open letter to the european parliament, the european commission, the governments and citizens of the european union. .By Alert Against the Green Desert Network, Latin American Network against Monoculture Tree Plantations, Network for a GM free Latin America, Oilwatch South America, World Rainforest Movement. January 2007. Also available in Spanish, French and Portuguese

• For Inmediate Release - January 7, 2007 - A clear message from the South: We want food sovereignty, not biofuels - Also available in Spanish

• Declaration of Nyéléni - Nyéléni Village, Selingue, Mali - 27 February 2007 - Also available in French, Spanish and Portuguese

• Nyéléni 2007 - Women’s Declaration on Food Sovereignty - February 2007 - Also available in French and Spanish

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