Residents were attacked by police forces Monday in order to evict them in Guahory, in the department of Caaguazu.
Responding to the urgent request of Paraguayan campesinos, who were violently evicted from their land, Paraguay's Permanent Legislative Commission held a meeting with the National Institute of Rural and Land Development, INDRT, director Justo Cardenas to try to resolve the issue.
By: Linda Farthing
Date: 1 February 2017
Source: Earth Island Journal
As Lake Poopó vanishes, depleted by water diversions and warming temperatures, it leaves behind an uncertain future for Indigenous Urus
Date: 3 February 2017
Source: CIFOR
Mangrove forests that incorporate local communities into their management fare better, a new study finds. Recognizing the importance of gender and community rights in mangrove use and planning prevents the deterioration of these fragile ecosystems.
By: Anastasia Moloney
Date: 3 February 2017
Source: Reuters
Across Latin America just one percent of farms and estates control more than half of the region's productive land.
Giving women access to land in Guatemala is key to forging lasting peace and tackling inequality, Nobel peace laureate Rigoberta Menchu said on Friday, in a country where land distribution is one of the most unequal in the world.
Date: 2 February 2017
Source: UN News Centre
More than 200 men and women of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia-People's Army (FARC-EP) marched today to demobilization camps, two months after a peace deal that ended the Western Hemisphere’s longest running conflict, United Nations monitors coordinating the process reported.
The Portfolio Overview provides a global overview of DFID's programmes working on land issues and highlights lessons and trends emerging from major land programmes over recent years.
By: Moira Birss
Date: 26 January 2017
Source: Nacla
From attempts to close Ecuador’s leading environmental rights NGO to megaprojects on indigenous lands, Rafael Correa’s government continues to criminalize and threaten environmental activists and indigenous people.
By: Nellie Peyton
Date: 1 February 2017
Source: Manitoba Co-Operator
Female-led work is vital to rural communities in Senegal — now women are organizing to lead the fight against multinational agribusiness.
