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Between March 13 and 31, La Via Campesina International will organize a camp called “Land Free of Transgenics‿ to accompany the negotiations of two conferences being held in Curitiba (PR). The camp will be in place in Newton Freire Maia Park, (formerly called Castelo Branco Park), in Quatro Barras (20 km from Curitiba) and around 6,000 small...
[03/10/2006] Land, Territory & Dignity Forum reports on their activities in Porto Alegre
Land titles for small farmers, guarantees for children who inherit farmland, and a sustainable agrarian reform that serves to develop rural areas. These are just a few of the questions that need to be addressed in the countryside.
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March 8, 2006
Before dawn on International Women’s Day, around 2000 women from La Via Campesina invaded the tree nursery belonging to the cellulose corporation Aracruz Cellulose (the world's biggest producer of bleached eucalyptus pulp) in Barra do Ribeiro, Rio Grande do Sul. The objective of the mobilization was to denounce the social...
[03/08/2006] Women confront military police at International Conference on Agrarian Reform
Porto Alegre – The morning of 03/08 a group of rural women confronted the military police of Rio Grande do Sul, who had attemped to prevent the women from presenting their letter of discontent to the delegates of the 2nd International Conference on...
Dear Friends of the MST,
We are sharing a report with you on this occasion of the Second Conference on Agrarian Reform and Rural Development sponsored by the UN Agency for Food and Agriculture (FAO), to be held from March 7 to 10 in Porto Alegre, RS. The Conference intends to discuss among other things the type of Agrarian Reform that...
Issue Paper No. 5
Civil Society Issue Paper
Agrarian Reform in the Context of Food Sovereignty, the Right to Food and Cultural Diversity: “Land, Territory and Dignity‿, January 2006
http://www.icarrd.org/en/icard_doc_down/...
On Tuesday morning, the MST of the state of Rio Grande do Sul (RS) mobilized over 2,000 people from 14 encampments and occupied the latifundio [large, unproductive estate] known as Fazenda Guerra. The property is located in the municipality of Coqueiros do Sul, northern region of RS. The MST has not conducted such a massive land occupation,...
[02/28/2006] In Rio Grande do Sul, MST conducts largest occupation since late ‘90s
On Tuesday morning, the MST of the state of Rio Grande do Sul (RS) mobilized over 2,000 people from 14 encampments and occupied the latifundio [large, unproductive estate] known as Fazenda Guerra. The property is located in the municipality of Coqueiros do...
Poor Brazilians Get a Chance to Be Operated on in Cuba
Written by Érica Santana
Thursday, 23 February 2006
Two Cuban ophthalmologists who are part of the Miracle Mission, which treats visual deficiencies and ailments such as cataracts, glaucoma, and strabismus (squinting), paid a visit, Wednesday, February 22, to the...
Dear friends of the MST,
In this special edition, we will discuss AGRIBUSINESS. This discussion will be a bit lengthy, but only because we believe it necessary to explain our position and the reasons that cause us to be radically against this practice in the Brazilian countryside.
I – What is agribusiness?
The word...