Suffer Together, Celebrate Together: How Farmers Fight for Survival in Thailand
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Indigenous and Rural Communities in Guatemala Demand Their Natural Resource Rights
On March 19th, 1,500 rural and indigenous community members in Guatemala began marching for nine consecutive days to defend their natural resource rights. Tragically, state-sanctioned practices are destroying forests and mountains, contaminating rivers and water sources, and preventing rural Guatemalan communities from sustainably producing their own food. Nearly one year ago, hundreds of rural Maya …
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Drought = Hunger? Not an Inevitable Equation
Originally posted on AlertNet. Headlines tell us that a severe drought in the Horn of Africa is responsible for creating “the most severe food security emergency in the world today.” But is it? Images of emaciated children and desperate parents have flooded the news. More than 10 million people in Somalia, Kenya and Ethiopia are …
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