Fueling the Debate: Agrofuels, Biodiversity, and Our Energy Future
By app
Colombia’s experience with palm oil biodiesel, Brazil’s new role in supplying the world with sugarcane-based ethanol, planned agrofuel production in Central America, and corn’s conversion from food to fuel in the United States—the agrofuels push is changing land use and economies throughout the hemisphere. Analysts of the Americas Policy Program from these countries and others [...]
Read more →Trade and Economic Integration
By app
ARTICLE INDEX Trade and Economic Integration The rapid integration of nations into the global economy is the hallmark of our age. Increased international trade, investment, and production chains; and global information technologies and infrastructure projects have changed our concepts of geography and of society. Free trade agreements (FTAs) and neoliberal economic policies have increased [...]
Read more →Agrofuels, Uruguay’s Landless, Goldman Winner Interview
By CIP Americas
This Week in the Americas The Agrofuels TrapBy Laura Carlsen Agrofuel development has arrived on the global stage. Just this year, the number of declarations, dollars, and development plans that have gone to agrofuels are unparalleled in any other sector. An idea that languished for decades has suddenly become the darling of politicians, big business, [...]
Read more →Mexico’s Prophets of Climate Change: Women Forest Defenders
Celsa Baldovinos knew there was a serious problem when only about an inch of water trickled from the irrigation hose. In the mountains of southern Guerrero state where Baldovinos and her husband Felipe Arreaga lived during the 1990s, the small farmers were becoming increasingly alarmed about water supplies. "This was in January and by the [...]
Read more →An Interview with Julio Cusurichi
By hurwitz
The Initiative for the Regional Integration of Infrastructure in South America (IIRSA) is the latest in a series of disastrous international bank-financed schemes to bring "development" to the Amazon basin. Launched in 2000 by the governments of the region and taking advantage of a confluence of regional financing from major international finance institutions, IIRSA contains [...]
Read more →Biofuels and Small Farmers
By quintana
The biofuels boom is not just another trend or a passing fashion. It is the result of a new global food and energy cycle that entails very significant adjustments in our societies. The cycle of hydrocarbons as the almost exclusive source of energy is ending. So is the use of basic grains as a food [...]
Read more →Extending NAFTA, Venezuela, MST Congress, CAFTA
By CIP Americas
This Week in the Americas Extending NAFTA’s ReachBy Laura Carlsen Faced with opposition from the left and the right, George W. Bush, Felipe Calderon, and Stephen Harper met August 20-21 in Montebello, Canada to discuss the little-known second phase of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). Declarations to the press acknowledged public concerns about [...]
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