South African farmers suffered millions of dollars in lost income when 82,000 hectares of genetically-manipulated corn (maize) failed to produce hardly any seeds. “Monsanto says they just made a mistake in the laboratory, however we say that biotechnology is a failure.You cannot make a ‘mistake’ with three different varieties of corn.’
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As if poor farmers and hunter-gatherer tribes didn’t have enough land problems already! Now rich corporations are buying huge swathes of land in Africa and elsewhere. This week, the South Korean firm Daewoo Logistics announced plans to buy a 99-year lease on a million hectares in Madagascar. This trend cannot avoid the consequence of increased…
Two human rights defenders from the Hadzabe people in Tanzania have been acquitted by the Mbulu District Court from all charges brought against them in an attempt for revenge, because they had successfully defended the tribal homeland of their people against a corrupt deal.
The East Timor and Indonesia Action Network (ETAN) and the West Papua Advocacy Team (WPAT) today welcomed the removal of Colonel Burhanuddin Siagian from his command in West Papua. Siagian faces two indictments in East Timor for crimes against humanity committed in 1999.
An odd definition of saving seems to be being used here, but “A new documentary called The Linguists, airing Today on PBS, follows ethnographers David Harrison and Greg Anderson as they race to document endangered languages in some of the most remote corners of the world.”
The carbon credits scheme would make WWF and its partners much richer, but with no lowering of overall CO2 emissions, writes Christopher Booker in The Telegraph. For some background which will help this article make sense, see World Wide Fraud. And then do your own research, look into the backgrounds of the people involved, and…
Message sent out by Survival International to their subscribers: As we enter the new decade, we’d like to thank you for your support for tribal peoples over the last ten years. Here are just a few of the highlights: Land of Awá nomads protected Following a 20 year Survival campaign, the Brazilian authorities mapped out…