The ‘Declaration on the Rights of Peasants’ illustrates the concern within the United Nations, which has declared 2019 to 2028 ‘The Decade of Family Farming’.Read the full article
Six thousand Khwes live in the north-east of Namibia. The ethnic group, which has been present in this part of southern Africa for tens of thousands of years, is now fighting for survival. Sedentarised and ostracised, they are waging a battle to be able to survive on a daily basis, but also to [...]Read the full article
A US Army study calculated that Kivalina, in Alaska, will be completely under water by 2025. The nearly 400-strong Iñupiat community living there will have to relocate due to the thawing of the Arctic.Read the full article
“Of all the forms of resistance seen over the last few weeks, one in particular seems the most capable of confronting the fascist menace threatening Brazil: the active and on-going resistance of women, particularly of black women.”Read the full article
In the midst of an unprecedented economic crisis, Venezuela is gripped by gold fever. Venezuelans are flocking by the hundreds to the Orinoco Mining Arc and the environment is paying the price in the form of deforestation and mercury-polluted [...]Read the full article
What lessons can these new grassroots movements teach us? Can local or individual struggles have global resonance? One thing they do demonstrate is how uniting and fighting together can have a real impact.Read the full article
Why does a country that approves and leads climate action promote, in parallel, development based on extractivism - an option that undermines the rights of the people?Read the full article
As global inequality widens, so do the various manifestations of extreme exploitation, as this fourth edition of Equal Times’ summer themed-article series illustrates.Read the full article
“There is a deeply unjust imbalance: a victim of a multinational cannot apply to any court for justice, while a multinational can turn against states via private arbitration tribunals.”Read the full article
In the Biobío and La Araucanía regions of Chile the Mapuche communities claim their ownership of ancestral lands, which puts them in direct confrontation with the agricultural and forestry companies that profit from their exploitation of the lands. The disputes have cost [...]Read the full article
The Democratic Republic of Congo has the world’s second largest rainforest, about 135 million hectares, which is a powerful bulwark against climate change.Read the full article
In the state of Amazonas, extractivists work to pay off debts to their ‘bosses’. For three generations the cycle has bound families to a life of cutting piassava, the palm fibers used to make brooms.Read the full article
