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Título de terra leva dignidade à população rural de Banabuiú (Brasil)
Na manhã desta sexta-feira (03), a Secretaria do Desenvolvimento Agrário (SDA) realizou a entrega de 217 títulos de terra e assinou a ordem de serviço para instalação de sistema de abastecimento d´água com módulos sanitários em Banabuiú, município localizado a 233 km de distância da capital Fortaleza
In Peru, droughts give way to floods as climate change looms
Date: 2 February 2017
Source: Reuters
Severe droughts gripping Peru have given way to some of the country's most devastating downpours in decades, catching authorities off guard as they scramble to contain the kind of floods that climate change is expected to make more frequent.
Marching towards peace, FARC-EP begins turning in arms – UN Mission in Colombia
Date: 2 February 2017
Source: UN News Centre
More than 200 men and women of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia-People's Army (FARC-EP) marched today to demobilization camps, two months after a peace deal that ended the Western Hemisphere’s longest running conflict, United Nations monitors coordinating the process reported.
INTERVIEW-Give women land to build lasting peace in Guatemala - Nobel laureate
By: Anastasia Moloney
Date: 3 February 2017
Source: Reuters
Across Latin America just one percent of farms and estates control more than half of the region's productive land.
Giving women access to land in Guatemala is key to forging lasting peace and tackling inequality, Nobel peace laureate Rigoberta Menchu said on Friday, in a country where land distribution is one of the most unequal in the world.
Bolivia’s Disappearing Lake
By: Linda Farthing
Date: 1 February 2017
Source: Earth Island Journal
As Lake Poopó vanishes, depleted by water diversions and warming temperatures, it leaves behind an uncertain future for Indigenous Urus
Study shows that involving communities in mangrove management makes them more sustainable
Date: 3 February 2017
Source: CIFOR
Mangrove forests that incorporate local communities into their management fare better, a new study finds. Recognizing the importance of gender and community rights in mangrove use and planning prevents the deterioration of these fragile ecosystems.
Women lead battle to save Senegal’s shrinking farmland
By: Nellie Peyton
Date: 1 February 2017
Source: Manitoba Co-Operator
Female-led work is vital to rural communities in Senegal — now women are organizing to lead the fight against multinational agribusiness.
"Buen Vivir" for Whom?
By: Moira Birss
Date: 26 January 2017
Source: Nacla
From attempts to close Ecuador’s leading environmental rights NGO to megaprojects on indigenous lands, Rafael Correa’s government continues to criminalize and threaten environmental activists and indigenous people.
Indigenous federation sues Peru over new national park
By: David Hill
Date: 31 Januarty 2017
Source: The Guardian
Oil and gas concession overlaps 1.3m hectare “protected area” inhabited by indigenous peoples in “isolation”