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by Tamara Pearson- Venezuelanalysis.com A Venezuelan public media journalist breastfeeds as she works. Such public breastfeeding is fairly accepted in Venezuela (blog.chavez) Late President Hugo Chavez talking to members of the public (archive). Venezuela’s national assembly is debating a reform to its breastfeeding law which could see baby food companies like Nestle … Continue reading
By Masiel Fernandez Bolaños, special correspondence Rome, Jun 17 (Prensa Latina) Venezuelan Foreign Minister Elias Jaua asserted today here that food is a human right and not merchandise, different from what capitalism has established. More images of FAO conference in: PhotosPL The member countries of the Bolivarian Alliance for the People of our Americas (ALBA) have proven that when … Continue reading
The delegates, men and women, from 88 countries across the world of 183 peasant organizations affiliated with the Via Campesina International an form the Continents of Europe, the Americas, Africa, Asia and Australia, in the context of the 6th International Conference taking place between June 6th and June 13th of current year in Jakarta, Indonesia … Continue reading
Jun 16th 2013, by Sascha Bercovitch “These countries are leading the way to a better future,” said FAO Director-General José Graziano da Silva, shown here presenting a certificate of recognition to Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro (AVN) . Caracas, June 16th 2013 (Venezuelanalysis.com) – The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) recognized Venezuela as … Continue reading
Common Dreams by Salena Tramel Zubaidah Tambunan is one feisty grandmother. She has gone to outrageous measures to protect Aek Nagaga, her Sumatran agricultural village that is consistently threatened by foreign land-grabbing palm oil investors. She has lain in roads leading to local plantations to physically halt foreign corporations and collaborating local police, implemented a village-wide … Continue reading
From “Extreme Weather, Extreme Prices,” a briefing paper published by Oxfam International. Food prices in a changing climate Increased hunger is likely to be one of climate change’s most savage impacts on humanity. Greenhouse gas emissions are driving temperature increases, shifting rainfall patterns, and making extreme weather events more likely – like the 2012 drought … Continue reading
It’s a myth that Marx and Engels ignored environmental concerns. Their work was rooted in an ecological vision that can educate and inspire today’s activists by Phil Gasper Socialist Worker (U.S.), June 4, 2013 At the demonstration in Washington, D.C., in February to oppose the Keystone XL pipeline, which is being built to transport … Continue reading
Jun 2nd 2013, by Sascha Bercovitch – The Venezuelan government will continue its efforts to increase national food production and combat the use of Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) through a new Law on Seeds, president of the Agri-Food Development Subcommittee for the National Assembly Alfredo Ureña announced on Friday. The law, designed as a reform to … Continue reading
By Aporrea TV May 28, 2013. – On Saturday, May 25, there were protests throughout the world against Monsanto, the world’s largest transnational producer of chemicals and genetically modified seeds. In Venezuela, different groups came together in a large protest in the Museum Square and warned against the entry of GMOs into Venezuela. One of … Continue reading
The government of Latin America’s poorest country is taking natural resources out of the hands of multinationals, and using that wealth to fight poverty by Federico Fuentes Green Left Weekly Federico Fuentes is co-author, with Roger Burbach and Michael Fox, of Latin America’s Turbulent Transitions: The Future of Twenty-First-Century Socialism (Zed Books 2013). Bolivia is demonstrating to the … Continue reading
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