Full Coverage: Land

28.03.2006 O movimento internacional de camponeses A Via Campesina comemora a decisão tomada hoje, 24 março, pelo grupo de trabalho da Convenção em Biodiversidade na COP-8 (8ª Conferência das Partes da Convenção de Diversidade Biológica), em Curitiba, Brasil, que manteve e fortaleceu a moratória de fato para a tecnologia Terminator.

23.03.2006 Mounting debt and a largely indifferent government are leading to rural distress and forcing communities to sell their land in India's Punjab province, explains analyst Devinder Sharma. What started as an isolated case is spreading as more villages are forced to deal with the ill-effects of the "Green Revolution."

13.03.2006 Villagers in the coastal belt of Orissa want to leave their village and their lands which they have tilled for generations simply because debilitating pollution from coalfields has rendered their fields unfertile, contaminated drinking water and has rendered air impossible to breathe. The only hitch in leaving their village is that the government is unwilling to rehabilitate them.

07.03.2006 The Chinese Communist Party is preparing a new five-year development plan that will focus on raising living standards for the country's 800 million peasants, who have suffered as the income gap between urban and rural dwellers continues to widen.