One of the ugliest features of the modern world is the exploitation of natural resources for private gain irrespective of its consequences for the environment and the larger community, especially the poor majority.

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At least 1.76 million jobs in the nation of about 16 million people are at risk due to COVID-19, while the poverty rate could double, to about one-in-four people, the World Bank said in May.

UN ESTUDIO DE CASO GLOBAL MUESTRA QUE LOS PUEBLOS INDÍGENAS Y OTROS DEFENSORES DE LA TIERRA Y EL MEDIO AMBIENTE SE ENFRENTAN A MAYORES RIESGOS EN EL CONTEXTO DEL COVID-19

En este Día Internacional de los Pueblos Indígenas, cinco meses después de que la OMS declarara al COVID-19 como una pandemia mundial, hacemos un llamado de atención urgente a los efectos desproporcionados del virus y el confinamiento que sufren los pueblos indígenas y otros defensores y defensoras de la tierra y el medio ambiente, especialmente vulnerables en la crisis actual.

(Main photo: Indonesia - Employment in agriculture, services and industry [% of total employment]. The data is according to the World Bank compilation of development indicators, collected from official sources.)

The rate at which the country is losing farmers is a cause for concern. If it continues, Indonesia is likely to have no farmers left in 50 years. What will we eat?

Date: 13/07/20

Source: APS

SETIF - Le ministre du Tourisme, de l'Artisanat et du Travail familial, Mohamed Hamidou, a affirmé lundi à El Eulma (27 km à l'Est de Sétif) que la récupération du foncier touristique non exploité sera "une des priorités" de son département ministériel une fois la crise de la Covid-19 passée.

While indigenous communities in Cambodia stayed home to stem the Covid-19 outbreak, a Vietnamese rubber firm bulldozed their land. Experts say disputes arising from Cambodia's complicated land management system will be difficult to resolve.

When the indigenous Kreung and Kachok communities locked down their villages in Cambodia’s Ratanakiri province in March to keep safe from the novel coronavirus, no one knew change was afoot in their ancestral forest.