The battle to stop the spread of extractive industries pits indigenous and peasant communities against powerful business interests, backed up by politicians who encourage the foreign investments that convert millennial ways of life into cash—for them
Convocatoria para Mujeres Lídere de Mesoamérica y Sudamérica
Without forests to act as a natural "shield" against extreme weather, communities are becoming more vulnerable to natural disasters
SAN JOSE, June 20 - When La Mosquitia, a heavily forested region on Honduras' Caribbean coast, began to experience unusual flooding, David Wrathall, a climate and disaster expert who was living there, headed into the forest to take a look.
El Fondo para el Desarrollo de los Pueblos Indígenas de América Latina y El Caribe (FILAC) a través de su programa emblemático Universidad Indígena Intercultural, junto a la Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO) y el Consejo Indígena de Centro América (CICA), reprogramaron el inicio del Curso Internacional “Directrices Volun
Date: December 6, 2016
Source: Land Rights Now
Second call for expressions of interest: national or regional information and data partnerships on land
