The closing down of a community radio station in eastern Paraguay is the latest example of political repression in the country with the most unequal land distribution in Latin America, writes Toby Hill, and in which the media are dominated by a tiny elite of the super-rich. As small farmers begin to reclaim the land that is rightfully theirs, landowners and the state they control are striking back.
… Amid corruption, poverty and violence, Paraguay's rural poor fight for land and freedom Toby Hill | 27th May 2016 News Paraguay South America The Land Farming Society Politics paraguay-cut.jpg The closing down of a …
A new film, Raising Resistance, gives a telling account of how Paraguay's small farmers are suffering social and environmental ills from the country's meteoric rise in soya farming
… Paraguay's small farmers defend livelihoods … Activism Food And Farming Raising Resistance Paraguay Soy Soy Industry Pesticides … Resistance, gives a telling account of how Paraguay's small farmers are suffering social …
Former Paraguayan government minister makes plea for West to intervene in runaway illegal logging situation displaced from Brazil
… Clamping down on logging in Brazil moves it to Paraguay The Ecologist | 20th November 2009 … Climate Change Deforestation Logging Brazil Paraguay bulldozer.jpg A pair of bulldozers … from Brazil roll off a barge at the Paraguayan border Former Paraguayan government …
Cheap meat has become a way of life in much of Europe, but the full price is being paid across Latin America as vast soya plantations and their attendant chemicals lead to poisonings and violence
… Soya Meat Livestock Latin America Paraguay EFU Ecologist Film Unit … the Ecologist Film Unit . An investigation in Paraguay has discovered that vast plantations … the experiences of some of those caught up in Paraguay's growing conflict over soy farming …
Cheap meat has become a way of life in much of Europe, but the full price is being paid across Latin America as vast soya plantations and their attendant chemicals lead to poisonings and violence. Andrew Wasley reports
… Soya Meat Livestock Latin America Paraguay EFU Ecologist Film Unit … the Ecologist Film Unit . An investigation in Paraguay has discovered that vast plantations … the experiences of some of those caught up in Paraguay's growing conflict over soy farming …
Peasant and indigenous women in Paraguay are organising to survive the twin threats of industrial agriculture and climate change.
… Forest Coalition | 25th September 2019 News Paraguay Industrial Agriculture Climate Change … Peasant and indigenous women in Paraguay are organising to survive the twin … law enforcement. The Chaco forests in western Paraguay have been particularly badly hit by …
Two years on from our first investigation of the impact of intensive soya farming, Friends of the Earth campaigner Nick Rau explains how progress in tackling the problems are still frustratingly slow
… Rau | 14th July 2011 Comment Food And Farming Paraguay Brazil Soy Pesticides … farming on communities and the environment in Paraguay. Harrowing video footage showed … way for new plantations. And it explained how Paraguay’s problems are fuelled by the demand …
Brazilian cattle-ranching company named and shamed for destroying the land of an uncontacted tribe
… Natural World Food And Farming Brazil tribeparaguay.jpg The land of the … land belonging to an uncontacted tribe in Paraguay. The company, Yaguarete Pora S.A., … for suggesting the deforestation of land in Paraguay's Chaco region was 'a noble gesture …
Lake Ypacarai, southern Paraguay, was immortalised by the Spanish singer Julio Iglesias and his song about meeting a woman next to the blue lake. But due to pollution the lake has turned from blue to vivid green and then to murky brown. JOSEPH DUTTON investigates
… January 2018 Comment Lake Ypacarai Pollution Paraguay 8481440399_42194e6a37_z.jpg Lake Ypacarai, southern Paraguay, was immortalised by the Spanish … DUTTON investigates Lake Ypacarai in southern Paraguay was immortalised by the Spanish …
Cheap meat has become a way of life in much of Europe, but the full price is being paid across Latin America as vast soya plantations and their attendant chemicals lead to poisonings and violence. Andrew Wasley reports
… abuses and environmental devastation in Paraguay’s soya fields Andrew Wasley | 13th … Soya Meat Livestock Latin America Paraguay EFU Ecologist Film Unit … the Ecologist Film Unit. An investigation in Paraguay has discovered that vast plantations …
A new scientific study has revealed that Paraguay's Chaco forest - the last refuge of the uncontacted Ayoreo tribe - is being devastated by the world's highest rate of deforestation.
… January 2014 News Indigenous Peoples Forests Paraguay ayoreo-chaco.png A new scientific study has revealed that Paraguay's Chaco forest - the last refuge of … by the University of Maryland found that "Paraguay's Chaco woodlands ... are …
The unfolding human and ecological disaster of GM agriculture in the Americas must send the EU a powerful message, writes Helena Paul. We don't want it here, and we should stop buying the products of GM-driven genocide and ecocide abroad.
… were first launched in 1996. Argentina and Paraguay The cultivation of herbicide tolerant … planted (7th February 2014) of 20,350,000 ha. Paraguay has suffered similarly devastating … environment. Forest loss in Argentina and ParaguayParaguay has lost nearly a million …
Water, food supplies and energy production are all in jeopardy as the Amazon forest is felled for profit. And as Paul Brown writes, the damage is spreading well beyond Amazonia itself ...
… December 2013 News Amazon Brazil Peru Ecuador Paraguay Uruguay Argentina Bolivia Climate … covering parts of Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, Paraguay and Uruguay. Last month it was …
As ever more companies and governments pledge to 'go green' and protect forests, the world's tribal peoples should be among the main beneficiaries, writes Amy Dickens. Yet the reverse is the case. All too often the promises are purest greenwash, used to conceal the human and environmental tragedy of land-grabbing for plantations, mines, logging and even 'conservation'.
… Peoples Africa Cameroon Philippines Paraguay Farming Finance Corporations … mines, logging and even 'conservation'. In Paraguay's vast Chaco region, the familiar …
Jaguars in the Atlantic Forest, which spans Argentina, Brazil and Paraguay, have doubled in number to 200 in last 15 years.
… Forest, which spans Argentina, Brazil and Paraguay, have doubled in number to 200 in … Forest, which spans Argentina, Brazil and Paraguay. Research Efforts across the three …
The Ecologist investigates allegations a coal power project in India, approved under the UN's Clean Development Mechanism, is destroying forests and livelihoods
… abuses and environmental devastation in Paraguay’s soya fields Cheap meat has become a …
Exclusive film looks at allegations that a coal power project in central India, approved under the UN's Clean Development Mechanism, is destroying forests and livelihoods
… abuses and environmental devastation in Paraguay’s soya fields Cheap meat has become a …
Black Friday is yet another manifestation of a consumer culture that is both empty and destructive, writes Vicki Hird. So instead let's join in creative celebrations of Buy Nothing Day ('no purchase necessary'), and develop a new life-enhancing ethic of joyful frugality.
… Friday first hit my consciousness in 2014 in Paraguay's capital city. I was there to meet … its ugly limbs far and wide. Seeing it in Paraguay, when I was about to visit rural …
In her weekly column, the Ecologist's Lorna Howarth reports on the stories that show standing up for what we believe in can and does make a real difference.
… singularly creative and inspiring story from Paraguay. A group of musically-talented youth …
Investigative films on key environmental and climate change issues from the Ecologist Film Unit
… rights abuses linked to soya cultivation in Paraguay; and the planned privatisation of … abuses and environmental devastation in Paraguay’s soya fields Sick As A pig – the …
Coffee brands' project aims to stop slash and burn farming by linking local reforestation to the international carbon market. Matilda Lee reports from Peru
… Levitt investigates HOW TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE Paraguay's small farmers defend livelihoods … Resistance, gives a telling account of how Paraguay's small farmers are suffering social …
The year 2014 is on track to be one of the hottest, if not the hottest, on record, according to preliminary estimates by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). Their latest report, issued today at the UN climate talks in Lima, shows exceptional heat and flooding in many parts of the world.
… May. Record heat affected northern Argentina, Paraguay, Bolivia and southern Brazil in … of the long term average were recorded in Paraguay, southern Bolivia and parts of south … the Parana River which particularly affected Paraguay, where more than 200,000 people were …
Europe did not light the fires ravaging the Amazon, but it did provide some of the matches.
… with the Mercosur bloc (Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay). Sustainable Another … combined soybean area of Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay and Bolivia expanding two-and-half …