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June 2007

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Join the movement to save Indian villages
29.06.2007 Dozens of villages have been flooded; houses, fields and trees have disappeared under water and people have became landless, since the government of the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh closed the gates of the Omkareshwar dam in the Narmada valley. Support the demands of the people in the Narmada Valley by sending the letter to the Chief Minister of the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh for adequate compensation and rehabilitation for the people.
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Related topics/regions: [India] [South Asia] [Shelter & housing] [Civil rights] [Governance]
Image: Join the movement to save Indian villages © Social Health Education Development Society
More accessibility, availability and affordability for Indian farmers
28.06.2007 The Strengthening Rural Credit Cooperatives Project of the World Bank supports the Indian Government programme to reform and revitalise the country's rural Credit Cooperative Banks (CCBs) by making them efficient and commercially-viable institutions that also are responsive to the financial needs of the Indian farmers.
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Related topics/regions: [India] [South Asia] [Economy] [Finance] [Governance]
Image: More accessibility, availability and affordability for Indian farmers © Television Trust for the Environment
28.06.2007 Writing about her childhood in the Salinas Valley, Rose Castillo Guilbault describes the migrants, the men who came alone, the families, and one "special friend."
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Related topics/regions: [United States] [Children] [Labour] [Migration]
Image: © New America Media
In Burkina Faso's cotton fields.
26.06.2007 NEW YORK, Jun 25 (OneWorld) - More than 1 million children in West Africa would not go to bed hungry if Washington stopped providing subsidies to America's cotton growers, according to a study released Thursday by an influential development organization.
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From: OneWorld US
Related topics/regions: [United States] [West Africa] [Education] [Poverty] [Business] [Globalisation]
Image: In Burkina Faso's cotton fields. © Brahima Ouedraogo / United Nations' Integrated Regional Information Network
Peasant. Source: http://www.ict4pr.org/
26.06.2007 More than 800 peasants over Central Java which involved as Central Java Peasants Union (SP-Jateng) came to central java people assembly building. They came to ask governments to immediately solve agrarian conflict.
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Related topics/regions: [Indonesia] [Development] [Land] [Poverty]
Image: Peasant. Source: http://www.ict4pr.org/
Aksi petani Pasundan. sumber foto: http://www.fspi.or.id/
26.06.2007 Sekitar 10.000 petani se-Jawa Barat tumpah ruah memenuhi lapangan Gasibu, Bandung (19/6). Para petani dari Serikat Petani Pasundan (SPP) menuntut pemerintah daerah Jawa Barat untuk segera membagikan tanah-tanah objek landreform kepada petani.
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Related topics/regions: [Indonesia] [Development] [Land] [Poverty]
Image: Aksi petani Pasundan. sumber foto: http://www.fspi.or.id/
Pesticide spraying
24.06.2007 An all-India symposium on agriculture crises and the Farmers’ Commission will be held at the Institute of Development Studies, Jaipur on 26th June 2007. It will be partnered by Oxfam International’s South Asia Trade and Agriculture Campaign.
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Related topics/regions: [India] [South Asia] [Land] [Civil society] [Governance]
Image: Pesticide spraying © Centre for Science and Environment
Le sovvenzioni all'agricoltura di Usa e Ue mettono in ginocchio le economie africane
22.06.2007 E' fallita dopo due giorni di lavori la riunione del cosiddetto G4 di Potsdam (Ue, Usa, Brasile e India) che aveva l'obiettivo di fare passi avanti sulla strada verso una ulteriore liberalizzazione del commercio mondiale. I rappresentanti di India e Brasile hanno lasciato i lavori in forte polemica con Stati Uniti e Unione Europea in particolare sulla tematica delle sovvenzioni agrarie. "Era inutile proseguire il negoziato tenuto conto di quello che viene proposto" - ha detto il ministro degli Esteri brasiliano, Celso Amorim, che ha confermato come sia stata l'agricoltura all'origine della rottura. "Anche se una prima intesa tra questi paesi avrebbe sbloccato lo stallo del Doha Round dobbiamo rammentare che le trattative coinvolgono tutti i 150 membri dell'Organizzazione Mondiale del Commercio, di cui 32 sono paesi meno avanzati che rimangono sempre più fuori dal negoziato" - sottolinea una nota della Focsiv.
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Related topics/regions: [Trade] [Globalisation]
Image: Le sovvenzioni all'agricoltura di Usa e Ue mettono in ginocchio le economie africane
20.06.2007 Penetapan Taman Nasional Ujung Kulon ternyata menyisakan konflik dengan petani setempat. Jika tidak segera diselesaikan secara tuntas dan bijaksana, maka konflik ini akan menambah potret buram pengelolaan Taman Nasional di Indonesia.

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13.06.2007 FSPI report the case of violence and shooting against the peasants in Tanak Awu, Lombok, West Nusa Tenggara to the UN Commission of Human Rights in Jakarta. This time, the case is reported to the special delegation of UN Secretary Hina Jilani.
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Related topics/regions: [Indonesia] [Development] [Activism] [Civil society] [Democracy] [Arms & military] [Conflict]
Lavoro minorile - foto ©FAO
12.06.2007 Lo sfruttamento del lavoro minorile coinvolge 218 milioni di piccoli nel mondo e causa 22 mila morti ogni anno. Nella Giornata mondiale contro il lavoro minorile, la Fao fotografa una situazione drammatica e in costante peggioramento, che travolge e calpesta il diritto all'infanzia soprattutto nel settore dell'agricoltura. Secondo le stime dell'Organizzazione internazionale del Lavoro (Ilo), il settore agricolo impegna il 70% di minori, vale a dire un terzo della forza lavoro dell'intero comparto: sarebbero infatti 132 milioni di bambini e bambine tra i 5 e i 14 anni impiegati nei campi. Per questo l'Ilo e cinque organizzazioni internazionali agricole (Fao, Ifad, Ifpri, Cgiar, Ifap, Iuf) hanno lanciato oggi una nuova alleanza mondiale per combattere il lavoro minorile in agricoltura. Per quanto riguarda l'Italia sono migliaia i bambini, per lo più stranieri, che vengono sfruttati ma sono ancora poche le denunce - afferma Save the Children.
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Related topics/regions: [Children] [Economy]
Image: Lavoro minorile - foto ©FAO
Konflik Tanak Awu, sumber: http://www.viacampesina.org
12.06.2007 Federasi Serikat Petani Indonesia melaporkan kasus kekerasan dan penembakan terhadap petani Tanak Awu, Lombok, Nusa Tenggara Barat, kepada Komisi HAM PBB. Kali ini pengaduan langsung diterima utusan khusus Sekjen PBB, Hina Jilani.
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Image: Konflik Tanak Awu, sumber: http://www.viacampesina.org
12.06.2007 Meskipun mengklaim berbasiskan ilmu pengetahuan dan teknologi, ternyata produk transgenik punya catatan buruk dalam hal pengujiannya. Produk ini berpotensi membahayakan konsumen.
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08.06.2007 Suomalaisten ruokakauppojen lihatiskiltä saatava brasilialainen naudanliha ei kuulu ympäristötietoisen kesägrilliin, sillä brasilialaiseen lihantuotantoon liittyy huomattavia ympäristöongelmia. Lihakarjan laidunmaiden leviäminen on tällä hetkellä suurin syy Amazonin sademetsien häviämiseen, sanoo metsänhoitaja Sampsa Kiianmaa WWF Suomesta.
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From: WWF Suomi
Related topics/regions: [Environment]
Child labour
07.06.2007 The International Labour Organisation (ILO) has estimated that over 100 million boys and girls, between the ages of 5-14, work under hazardous conditions in the agriculture sector worldwide. ILO is collaborating with five organisations to eliminate child labour by focusing on World Day Against Child Labour on June 12, 2007.
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Related topics/regions: [Children] [Labour] [Governance]
Image: Child labour © Megan Montoya /
Anti-Coca-Cola protester at the company's annual general meeting, 2004.
07.06.2007 LOS ANGELES, Jun 6 (OneWorld) - The Coca-Cola company has been charged with illegally seizing lands communally owned by small farmers and indiscriminately dumping sludge and other industrial hazardous waste onto the surrounding community. This comes as the multinational beverage giant announced a new effort Tuesday to protect rivers on four continents.
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From: OneWorld US
Related topics/regions: [India] [Water/sanitation] [Consumption] [Corporations]
Image: Anti-Coca-Cola protester at the company's annual general meeting, 2004. © Aaron Couch / India Resource Center
05.06.2007 A report by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), released on the eve of World Environment Day at Tromso, Norway claims that melting ice and glaciers will affect millions of hundreds of people, impacting water availability for drinking and agriculture.
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Related topics/regions: [Environment] [Climate change] [Governance]
04.06.2007 Meskipun Orde Baru sudah tumbang, bukan berarti ancaman kekerasan terhadap rakyat oleh tantara juga sudah berakhir. Rabu (30/5), di Pasuruan Jawa Timur, beberapa petani miskin justru menjadi sasaran timah panas dari moncong senapan Mariner TNI AL.
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04.06.2007 Teknologi rekayasa genetika, seperti halnya teknologi lain, tidak bebas dari risiko dan berpotensi menimbulkan kerusakan lingkungan. Celakanya, selama ini produk rekayasa genetika tidak pernah menerapkan penilaian risiko (risk assesment) sebagai salah satu langkah dalam menerapkan prinsip kehati-hatian.
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Partners in Agriculture
Integrated Health for All Foundation, Cameroon
The Integrated Health for All Foundation (IHAF), Cameroon is a Community-Health based organisation. Her seat is in Yaoundé and it has branches in Buea and Bamenda at moment. She is apolitical and non profit making. She is duly recognised by the Cameroon government with Registration: No. 000061/ADR/J06/APPB. As a unique organisation seeking to ensure “good health for all” ... Read more


 
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