Rapid expansion of African palm cultivation in Honduras has had profound social and environmental consequences for the black, indigenous and campesino population, whose legitimate rights to land, food and a decent life have been seriously compromised. Their resistance effort has also been criminalized. Analysis, thorough debate and the search for common strategies to confront a land-grabbing model of production that displaces communities were the main goals of the forum-workshop on “Large Scale Monocultures in Latin America, Land Grabbing and Threats to Biodiversity and Food Sovereignty,” held on September 9 in the city of La Ceiba, Honduras. More than 170 people and dozens of regional social, popular and trade union movements and organizations participated in the event.
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