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Indigenous Kaiowá in Brazil Pledge ‘Collective Death’ to Defend Ancestral Territory

By: Saulo Araujo | Novembro 26, 2012

Leaders of the Guarani Kaiowá boldly announced that the entire community would rather die in their land defending from businesses and corporations. Their assertion is more than a war declaration. For us, the buyers of “clean energy,” their pronouncement is a jarring wake-up call that the “Green Economy” actually promotes genocide of indigenous people and Afro-descendent communities –whether in the form of a slow die off of disposed peoples or a quicker resistance.
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People Power versus Hydropower

By: Jonathan Leaning | Novembro 26, 2012

A massive, very active social movement against the loss of land and ecosystems caused by hydro-electric dams is making headway in Brazil. The movement is little known in North America so far, but that’s changing. And it’s on the brink of spreading across the world wherever large dams are being built and waterways threatened.

But what’s all the fuss, some may ask. Doesn’t it usually only affect isolated communities, and isn’t hydropower a much more environmentally friendly source of cheap energy, especially compared with nuclear, coal, or oil? Are these anti-dam activists clinging to a kind of prosaic, but impractical pastoral way of life, or just trying to push the dams into somebody else’s backyard?
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Saving Water with Agroecology

By: Saulo Araujo | Novembro 21, 2012

It is still dark outside when the farmers awaken. The cool air of the morning won’t last too long once the sun rises. When the sun slowly breaks the dawn, the sleepy bodies demand a cup of coffee. The flame...
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Brazil’s “Green Energy” too Costly, say People Affected by Dams

By: Saulo Araujo | Novembro 9, 2012

Before becoming Brazil’s first female president, Dilma Roussef helped to engineer an ambitious development plan that would change the country. Known as the Accelerated Growth Plan and the Ten-year Energy Plan, it would build 134 dams by the year of 2020 in the Amazon alone. Among the losers in the plan: thousands of acres of forest; habitat for endangered species; and thousands of families unfortunate enough to have ancestors who chose to settle these lands. According to Grassroots International’s partner, the Brazilian Movement of People Affected by Dams (MAB), the ambitious development plan failed to include any funding to offset hunger and unemployment, or to revamp public services for those displaced populations whose livelihoods will be wiped.
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Supporting Indigenous Peoples’ Struggle for Rights of Mother Earth

By: Carol Schachet | Agosto 9, 2012

Today [August 9] is the International Day of the World’s Indigenous People. The United Nations pronounced this day to promote and protect the rights of the world’s indigenous population. Today also gives us an opportunity to celebrate and recognize the achievements and contributions that indigenous people have made to improve world issues.

Grassroots International proudly supports indigenous organizations from Mexico to Brazil to Mozambique to Indonesia – groups engaged in ongoing organizing to protect their rights and the rights of Mother Earth.
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Traveling to Brazil, but not ‘that’ Brazil

By: Carol Schachet | Agosto 7, 2012

This summer, a group of Grassroots International supporters and allies participated in a delegation to Pernambuco, Brazil. There they saw first-hand the resilient and powerful work of the Landless Workers Movement, the Movement of People Affected by Dams, and the Via Campesina. Along the way, delegates talked with with small farmers, families living in encampments waiting for land, and indigenous communities working to protect their ancestral lands from the incursion of impending dams.
Below is a blog from Peggy Newell, one of the delegates and a Grassroots International supporter, offering her reflections on the journey.

Traveling to Not That Brazil, by Peggy Newell
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The Elephant in Rio: The Corporate-Driven “Green Economy”

By: Carol Schachet | Junho 19, 2012

A close friend of mine in Fairfax, Virginia, is expecting her first child. By the time this baby girl turns 60, she’ll live in a world that’s warmer than it’s ever been since humans began walking the Earth 2.5 million...
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Uprooting GM Crops with Creole Seeds

By: Saulo Araujo | Junho 15, 2012

In rural areas like Seu Lazaro’s community in the state of Goiás, Brazil, vendors of genetically modified seeds used to drop by with wide smiles and black suitcases full of samples and colorful catalogues. Their dusty cars, parked in the middle of the road, are a map of their sales route across miles of unpaved, bumpy roads. According to Seu Lazaro, these vendors (often trained agronomists) go from house to house trying to convince peasant farmers to buy seeds, chemical fertilizers and pesticides by promising lush crops and a good return in the investment.

Those promises convinced Seu Lazaro’s father to use GM seeds, who then convinced him.
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Dams to displace more people after Rio+20

By: Saulo Araujo | Junho 5, 2012

Yesterday I spoke with two members of Brazil’s Movement of People Affected by Dams (MAB) in Sao Paulo City. MAB is an inspiring organization formed by families who have been displaced by mega-dams in Brazil. Grassroots supports MAB in the organizing of displaced families, or atingidos, so they can collectively defend their land, water and food rights.
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Healthy food today, healthy earth tomorrow

By: Daniel Moss | Maio 9, 2012

In a hidden corner of pesticide-laden sugar cane fields in Northeast Brazil, Grassroots International’s staffer Saulo Araujo discovered a tiny oasis of agricultural diversity. “Lettuce, cauliflower, beets, carrots, beans, corn,” pointed out farmers Rubem and Maria dos Santos, members of the Landless Workers Movement. “We grow almost everything we need to feed ourselves and to sell in the local market.”
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Brazil’s water and energy mega-grab

By: Saulo Araujo | Março 14, 2012

“Anytime a new wall is built, hundreds of acres of forest and fertile land for food production is flooded. Anytime a new wall is built, a river dies. The death of the rivers is the end of our livelihood” - José Josivaldo, Movement of People Affected by Dams, National Coordination body member The hugely profitable business of building dams has taken the Amazon region by storm. One hundred-forty new dams will be built in the Amazon in the next years. The lion’s share will be in Brazil, spurred on by its booming economy, but the Amazonian regions of Bolivia, Peru, Colombia, Venezuela, Suriname, French Guyana and Guyana are also targeted by the industry.
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Market-based solution to climate melts under the sun in Brazil

By: Saulo Araujo | Março 7, 2012
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Sharing Knowledge and Power: Brazil-Africa learning exchange benefits small farmers

By: Saulo Araujo | Janeiro 26, 2012

Entering Brazil for the first time, each farmer had their own stories to share – of their journey and of their struggle. Robert, from Namibia, had the most excruciating trip. He had to take different flights to reach his final...
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Brazilian government pulls plug on the Million Cistern Project

By: Saulo Araujo | Dezembro 22, 2011

According to a local proverb, bad news arrive arrives fast. So it was with the announcement that Brazilian president Dilma Rouseff will end the popular and effective One Million Cisterns Program in the country’s semi-arid regions.
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Janaina Stronzake, Youth Activist: Growing up in Brazil’s Occupy Land Movement

By: Jonathan Leaning | Dezembro 9, 2011

Janaina Stronzake is a youth leader within Brazil’s Landless Workers Movement (MST) – the largest peasant movement in Latin America with over 1.5 million members.
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A Prize for Solidarity and Justice

By: Saulo Araujo | Novembro 4, 2011

Coinciding with World Food Day, the Community Food Security Coalition and the U.S. Food Sovereignty Alliance announced on October 16 that the Brazilian Landless Workers Movement (MST) will receive the 2011 Food Sovereignty Prize in Oakland, California. The Food Sovereignty Prize...
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Janaina Stronzake, from MST, to visit East Coast

By: Saulo Araujo | Outubro 17, 2011
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Small farms, big results

By: Carol Schachet | Outubro 14, 2011

For three decades the UN’s World Food Day on Oct. 16 has offered a ready-made opportunity to tackle hunger’s causes and solutions. Unfortunately, the conversation often focuses narrowly on ways to increase the food supply with purchased technologies originating far from farmers’ fields.
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2011 Food Sovereignty Prize winners announced

By: Carol Schachet | Outubro 13, 2011

The Community Food Security Coalition and the US Food Sovereignty Alliance will announce on World Food Day, October 16^th 2011 that the Landless Workers Movement of Brazil (MST) has been awarded the 2011 Food Sovereignty Prize. The MST is a Grassroots International partner and member of the Via Campesina.
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The Food Movement

By: Carol Schachet | Outubro 6, 2011

The Nation Editor's Note: Frances Moore Lappé's essay below kicks off our forum on the food movement. Raj Patel, Vandana Shiva, Eric Schlosser, and Michael Pollan have contributed replies. [Links to those replies appear below.]
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