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Mexico Celebrates “Carnival of Corn” and Rejects Monsanto

Posted 04 June 2013 | By | Categories: Agriculture, Biodiversity & Sustainable Development, Mexico & Border | No Comments

Mexican activists responded to the global call for a day against Monsanto with a “Carnival of Corn” in Mexico City. Hundreds of mostly young people from political, social and environmental organizations and artists’ collectives held cultural events and paraded from the Palace of Fine Arts to the Monument to the Revolution with drummers, street theater, music, performance and dance. The most popular hash tag in the social networks was #FueraMonsanto (#MonsantoOut).

Monsanto’s bile against Mexico’s honey

Posted 01 November 2012 | By | Categories: Agriculture, Biodiversity & Sustainable Development, Caribbean, Citizen Action, Indigenous People, Integration & Trade, Labor, Mexico & Border | No Comments

Monsanto’s bitter seeds have given another blow to the Mexican honeycreepers that had previously succeeded in stopping short the transnational corporation’s plan to plant 253,000 acres of transgenic soybeans in the Yucatan Peninsula that would have jeopardized beekeeping in the region, the main livelihood more than 25,000 families.

The Fight for Corn

Posted 25 October 2012 | By | Categories: Agriculture, Biodiversity & Sustainable Development, Central America, Citizen Action, Climate Change, Indigenous People, Integration & Trade | 2 Comments

In an era of food crisis, the fight for corn has intensified, and the importance of this grain – a staple of the diet of Mexico and a large part of the world – has been revealed to the fullest extent. The scenario we are faced with is a battle between a culture that revolves around the material and symbolic production of corn, as well as the cultural, social, and historical value placed upon this crop by humankind, and the network of commercial and political interests that sees this prodigious crop simply as another way to increase power and profit by means of plundering its native lands.

Mexican Farmers Block New Law to Privatize Plants

Posted 19 May 2012 | By | Categories: Biodiversity & Sustainable Development, Citizen Action, Mexico & Border | 3 Comments

Progressive small farmer organizations in Mexico scored a victory over transnational corporations that seek to monopolize seed and food patents.

Pablo Solón: the Outcome of the Climate Change Conference in Durban will be Worse than in Cancun

Posted 08 December 2011 | By | Categories: Biodiversity & Sustainable Development, Climate Change, South America | No Comments

By Alfredo Acedo When Solón attended the COP16 last year in Cancun, Mexico, he still served as Bolivia’s ambassador to the UN and led his country’s delegation at the talks on global warming with a strong position based on the Peoples’ Agreement of Cochabamba. The Cochabamba Agreement firmly identified the underlying cause of the climate [...]

Agrotoxins Kill

Posted 18 October 2011 | By | Categories: Biodiversity & Sustainable Development, Citizen Action, Integration & Trade, Mexico & Border | No Comments

A beautiful green and gold checked carpet hides the tragedy of the Yaqui Valley. This northeastern region of Mexico has been devastated by intensive use of agrochemicals under a capitalist model of agriculture that has polluted the air, soil and water, and lethally affected the lives of its people for more than half a century.

Mexican Constitution Now Recognizes Right to Food

Posted 24 September 2011 | By | Categories: Biodiversity & Sustainable Development, Citizen Action, Indigenous People, Integration & Trade, Mexico & Border | 3 Comments

Although the right to food is now recognized in the Constitution, poverty, hunger and exclusion in the country have worsened to the point that to put the right to food in practice requires a radical transformation in the economic model.