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Women farmers in northern India battle tradition, self-doubt to own land
By: Rina Chandran
Date: 29 December 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
Anjali has worked on the land nearly all her life, first with her tenant-farmer parents, and then alongside her husband in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.
But she has never owned land - a right she has been denied by inconsistent inheritance laws and her community's rigid custom that led her to believe only a man should own land.
For Indigenous Peoples, Megadams Are ‘Worse than Colonization’
By: Philippa de Boissière and Sian Cowman
Date: March 14th 2016
Source: Foreign Policy in Focus
These mega-projects expropriate land, spoil environments, and pollute democracies. Berta Cáceres gave her life resisting them.
'This is not empty forest’: Africa’s palm oil surge builds in Cameroon
By: John C. Cannon
Date: March 30th 2016
Source: Mongabay
Palm oil production is intensifying in Cameroon, leaving many worried about the country’s forests — and the wildlife and communities that depend on them.
- Industrial palm oil production is spreading out from Southeast Asia, with several African countries experiencing plantation booms in recent years.
Brazil's largest grocery chain pledges to chop deforestation, slavery from supply chain
By Chris Arsenault
Source: Reuters
RIO DE JANEIRO, April 8 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Brazil's largest grocery chain has pledged to stop selling beef produced on deforested land in the Amazon rainforest in what campaigners say is a victory for the environment and human rights.
Food retailer Pão de Açúcar also promised to stop buying beef produced by workers living in slave-like conditions, or cattle produced on land grabbed from local communities.
