Frente Amplio, Acción Popular y Partido Humanista expusieron sus propuestas en el foro electoral: “El agro en los planes de gobierno, convocado por los principales gremios representantes de la agricultura familiar como lo son: la CNA, ANPE PERÚ, CCP, FEMUCARINAP y el Consorcio Agroecológico.…
By: Moisés Rendón
Date: March 13th 2016
Source: Panam Post
Respect for Private Property Marks the Difference between Poverty and Prosperity
In 1763, immigrants to the North American colonies had more secure property rights than a native-born Venezuelan does in the 21st century.
Property rights in…
By: Forest Peoples Programme (Press Release)
Date: April 26th 2016
Source: Forest Peoples Programme
LONDON, 26th April 2016: On the 25th April the complaints panel of the RSPO (Round table on Sustainable Palm Oil) issued a preliminary ‘Stop work order’ to Plantaciones de Pucallpa, one of its…
By: Mike Gaworecki
Date: May 4th 2016
Source: Mongabay
An international delegation of leaders from indigenous and forest communities in Colombia, Indonesia, Liberia, and Peru are in London today to call for action on human rights violations and land grabbing linked to the global trade in palm oil…
By: Apoorva Joshi
Date: May 5th 2016
Source: Mongabay.com
Meanwhile, dozens of NGOs urge removal of its parent company, United Cacao, from the London Stock Exchange amid legality issues.
Plantaciones de Pucallpa is one of several industrial agriculture companies operating in Peru. It has been…
Date: May 17th 2016
Source: Forest Peoples Programme
Indigenous activists under threat
Urgent update: A video (Spanish only) recording a formal visit to the oil palm plantation of Plantaciones de Pucallpa in Ucayali by Peruvian environmental prosecutors and officials documents how the company has…
Author: Chris Arsenault | @chrisarsenaul
Date: June 2nd, 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
A row between the Peru government and a UK-listed cacao producer accused of illegally destroying Amazon rainforest has prompted land rights campaigners to call for the removal of the company from…
Por Ricardo León
Un informe revela que casi el 40% de comunidades no tiene titulación. Candidatos no ofrecen planes concretos
El 1 de setiembre del 2014, cuatro dirigentes indígenas de la comunidad de Saweto, en Ucayali, fueron brutalmente asesinados por madereros ilegales que querían…
Fecha: 14 Junio 2016
Fuente: DW
En las alturas de los Andes peruanos, se lleva a cabo una batalla entre las empresas de minería extranjeras que extraen oro y las comunidades indígenas que quieren proteger su agua limpia y su forma de vida.
Desde hace tiempo, las tierras altas de los Andes…
Fecha: 6 de Julio 2016
Fuente: Servindi
Servindi, 6 de julio, 2016.- El último informe del Proyecto Monitoreo de la Amazonía Andina (MAAP) revela que del 2013 al 2015 se deforestaron cerca de 25 mil hectáreas de bosque en la zona este de la región Huánuco. La causa sería la habilitación de…
By: Paola Totaro
Date: August 9th 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
The seven lowest scoring nations across all 10 indicators were in the Middle East including Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Syria and Yemen
LONDON, Aug 9 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Wealthier countries…
By: Chris Arsenault
Date: September 1st 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
RIO DE JANEIRO (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Countries will be unable to meet their climate change pledges unless they secure land rights for people living in the world's tropical forests, indigenous leaders told…