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Agriculture and food sovereignty
Africa: up for grabs
The African continent is increasingly being seen as a source of agricultural land and natural resources for the rest of the world. National governments and private companies are obtaining access to land across the continent to grow crops for food and fuel to meet growing demand from mainly overseas countries. The report "Africa: up for grabs" by Friends of the Earth that looks at 11 African countries, found at least five million hectares of land – an area the size of Denmark – is being acquired by foreign companies to produce biofuels mainly for the European market.
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NEWS
Selected news
Urgent need for Climate Fund
Fri Sep 03 2010 - Source: The Star
The worsening plight of Pakistan in coping with horrendous floods highlights the urgent need to set up a proper system of assisting and financing developing countries especially in the aftermath of natural disasters.
Thousands of Cancuns for climate justice!
Thu Sep 02 2010 - Source: La Vía Campesina
La Via Campesina invites people's movements to mobilize around the world: "It is now time for the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) to embark on resolute policies to contribute to solve the climate chaos. Countries need to take strong and binding commitments to radically cut gas emissions and radically change their mode of production and consumption".
Pakistan needs debt cancellation, not new IMF loans
Thu Sep 02 2010 - Source: Eurodad
The response by the World Bank and the IMF to the unprecedented flooding in Pakistan threatens to pile new debts on a country where, before the flooding, debt interest payments already consumed about one third of budget revenues writes Nuria Molina.
CAMPAIGNS
Monsanto, get out of Haiti!
Sign the call towards the World Assembly of Inhabitants

APC, the world’s longest-running network, celebrates our 20th anniversary. Twenty years networking online for social justice and sustainable development
World Social Forum (WSF)
IV Americas Social Forum: Grassroots Organizations Are Still in Charge
Far from the unanimous rejection in the period when right wing political parties governed most countries in South America, social movements have managed to unite in the defence of common resources and against extractive industries. However, when the time comes to evaluate left-wing governments policies the differences appear.
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Tourism
Tourism in Central America, Social conflict in a new setting
Tourism in Central America, Social conflict in a new setting Even though the impact of the tourism industry is becoming increasingly well known and local conflicts are breaking out across Central America, the capacity for global mobilization in the face of its expansion is still quite limited. In many of these local conflicts, the communities are quite isolated and the capacity to respond is very weak.
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Sexual diversity and the law
Mexico: Supreme Court Upholds Non-Discrimination Against Gays
In the last two weeks, Mexico's Supreme Court has taken two fundamental steps in recognising the rights of gays and lesbians. On Monday, it voted to uphold a Mexico City law that allows same-sex couples to adopt. The legislation is part of a series of progressive laws passed by the leftwing government of the federal district, that has also included the legalisation of abortion, in line with a similar trend seen in other countries of the region. Argentina has recently became the first Latin American nation to legalise same-sex marriage.
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