Make That Le Peasant and Indigenous voice is heard

31/08/2010

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La Via Campesina is an international movement of peasants, small and medium producers, rural women, indigenous peoples, landless people, rural youth and agricultural workers. We are an autonomous, pluralistic movement, multicultural, independent from all political, economic or otherwise. The organizations that form the Via Campesina come from 69 countries of Asia, Africa, Europe and the Americas.

The / peasants are also victims of Global Warming and Climate Change: [read more ...]

Workshop: Urban Vegetable, July and August

21/06/2010

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Urban Vegetable Course of 12 Weeks. Every Wednesday from 7 July or August 4, 3-7pm.

Learning by doing: Produce food all year in your backyard, transpatio, and roof; Entrérate how your home or restaurant, may be part of the course [read more ...]

Opening of Organic Tianguis

21/07/2010
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[07/08/2010, 9:00 a.m. to 2:00 pm. ] By Rick Wendling

It will begin the first organic flea San Miguel de Allende on Saturday, August 7 from 9 am to 2 pm at the Parque Juarez.

The Organic Tianguis de San Miguel de Allende (TOSMA) features local certified organic products and products currently [...]

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In The Abyss

24/08/2010
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By Gustavo Esteva, La Jornada, August 23, 2010
They accumulate on my desk I want to address the issues, but must be pending.
I would like to talk about food, for example. Galeano's right. In these times of global fear, who has no fear of hunger is afraid to eat. After higher crop in history [...]

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DF: The Solid Waste Act

24/08/2010
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By Rafael Montes, El Universal, August 23, 2010
When the Federal District awake, its streets are full of garbage, waste hours of the night went.
In Mexico City, the obligation to not litter in the street, reducing waste and avoiding pollution, not to glean or [...]

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The History of Cap-and-Trade

08/10/2010
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The newest video by Annie Leonard, subtitled in Spanish. American environmentalist who made the documentary based anti furor "The Story of Stuff", this time presents another video about the mechanism "Cap-and-Trade" (cap and trade), which was established by the Kyoto Protocol as the main instrument to reduce [...]

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Effects of transgenes for Health

08/09/2010
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For Greenpeace Spain
Genetically engineered foods: a threat to fertilidad.Un study shows a genetically modified maize affect reproduction in mice
The long-term health risks of GMOs in our food or animal whose products we consume are not being evaluated properly. There are scientific reports on which [...]

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Mexico could expand the market for carbon credits sale

08/10/2010
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By Adriana Estrada, Environmental Theorem, August 5, 2010
For companies it is a good source of financing, but many have no concrete knowledge of how this market
Although Mexico could expand the market for sale of carbon credits, the lack of financing and technology transfer causes the country to stay [...]

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Participatory Certification TOSMA

21/07/2010
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by Rick Wendling
The objective of Organic Tianguis de San Miguel de Allende (TOSMA) is developing a network of local organic farmers, organic certification provided reliable low-cost and develop markets where farmers can sell directly to consumers at fair prices.
But what does 'organic'? Currently there are hundreds of private organic standards [...]

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GM crops generates losses for farmers

07/27/2010
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By Angélica Enciso L., La Jornada, July 20, 2010
In countries where there have been commercially planted GM experience shows a zero increase in productivity, increased use of agrochemicals and higher costs for farmers, experts revealed in the report GM Crops: zero earnings.
The study presented yesterday by Greenpeace documented that planting [...]

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GB Launch Interactive Climate Change Map

07/27/2010
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By Silvia Otero, El Universal, July 14, 2010
The British government launched an interactive map in Google Earth, which records some of the effects that might exist "if the global average temperature increases by four degrees Celsius above the average pre-industrial climate, the model focuses on the impacts of climate change on human .
The embassy of [...]

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Phobia Increasing the Use of Agrochemicals Campesina

07/27/2010
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By Matilde Perez U., La Jornada, July 17, 2010
Contamination of groundwater and soils, biodiversity loss and environmental degradation are the costs of production-technological model introduced four decades ago with the green revolution, based on the interaction between hybrid seeds and agrochemicals to increase, he said then, production food [...]

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Glyphosate: From Myth to the eschatological

03/08/2010
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By Graciela Gomez, July 30, 2010
If myth is understood to be an imaginary story, I believe that glyphosate would associate with laughter at the same Levi-Strauss.
With over thirty years in the market, still there, with comings and goings, signatures, omissions, collusion of universities, ministries, legislators, government officials and consultants who bill for [...]

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