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A call for solidary with Marco Suástegui
A call for solidarity has arrived from the state of Guerrero, in the South-West of Mexico. One of the leaders of the farmers’ movement Consejo de Ejidos y Comunidades Opositores …
The war against environmentalism
By Joan Martinez Alier. The Hindutva nationalist right-wing prime minister Modi in India is rallying against Environmental Justice Organisations (EJOs) financed by foreign money. High on his list are EJOs from …
Decoupling 2: A new report by the International Resource Panel
By Jakob Villioth. Last week the Decoupling Working Group of the International Resource Panel (IRP) has presented its second report on “Decoupling technologies, opportunities and policy options (2014)”. The IRP is …
Chilean Patagonia saved from Hidroaysén-madness
By Daniela Del Bene. After 8 years of campaigning under the slogan Patagonia Sin Represas, the Bachelet government in Chile rejected yesterday the Hidroaysén project. The Committee of Ministers, the highest administrative …
Workers and environmentalists of the world, unite!
By Stefania Barca. Stefania Barca is a Senior Researcher at the Center for Social Studies at the University of Coimbra. She’s of Italian origin and a well-known historian of water appropriation …
The journey to a new global climate agreement begins now, but which road will the EU take?
By Maruska Mileta and Jamie Gorman. Today at the UN climate talks in Bonn, Germany, civil society and social movements are calling on the developed countries including the EU to commit …
Will Brazil turn the country into a factory of genetically modified trees?
By the World Rainforest Movement. Will the Brazilian government give a permit to plant genetically modified eucalyptus trees on a commercial scale? That’s the breakthrough expected by Suzano, one of the …
Small farmers feed the world, but they’re hungry for land – a new GRAIN report
It is commonly heard today that small farmers produce most of the world’s food. But how many of us realise that they are doing this with less than a quarter …
The Baram Dam Blockade
By Christian Nolle. Deep in the heartland of Sarawak in Borneo close to Brunei runs the river Baram. The Sarawak government wants to erect a Dam on it, as part of the …
EJOLT PROJECT EXTERNAL EVALUATION REPORT
Professor Jennifer Clapp (Waterloo University, Canada) is the external evaluator of the EJOLT project. She has recently finished the Evaluation Report for the second 18 months period (October 2012 – March 2014). …
