Full Coverage: Land

25.03.2005 A Canadian-based mining company that used "trickery [and] coercion" to buy up land in the towns of San Miguel Ixtahuacán and Sipakapa is imposing on the rights of indigenous communities, say local human rights groups, and causing social unrest. A Mayan man was killed after a heated dispute with mine workers on his land last week.

18.03.2005 Venezuela has begun to turn over unused or underused chunks of publicly-owned land occupied by private landowners and businesses to landless farmers. Opponents of President Chavez say the land redistribution is just the beginning of a programme aimed at bringing full Cuban-style socialism to the country, but analysts say this is the best way to combat the scourge of poverty in Latin America.

15.03.2005 Land erosion by rivers have resulted in having no farms to cultivate, leaving farmerÂ’s families in villages of Dayarampur, Paraspur and Taltoli, in the West BengalÂ’s Murshidabad district with no source of income, no food and on the brink of starvation.

01.03.2005 Organizations of the civil society in Centralamerica are presenting today irrefutable proofs of the presence of StarLink –a genetically modified maize banned for human consumption in the US-, in food aid sent to Centralamerica.