Buscador: Agricultura

29/12/2006 Narmada Bachao Andolan leader Medha Patkar, along with several activists of trade unions and civil society organisations, staged a sit-in outside the Banga Bhavan here on Thursday against alleged forcible acquisition of agriculture land for the Tatas to set up a car factory in Singur

28/12/2006 Kangkung Oeba yang merupakan sayuran khas Kupang kini terancam punah. Hal ini terkait dengan rencana pembangunan hotel berbintang di atas lahan sayur para petaninya. Akibatnya, para petani Kangkung Oeba terpaksa beralih profesi menjadi pedagang asongan maupun buruh pabrik.

28/12/2006 Perdagangan bebas dalam pertanian semakin menyudutkan petani. Para petani tidak mampu bersaing dengan sumber pangan impor yang jauh lebih murah. Jika pemerintah tidak menerapkan kebijakan yang melindungi sektor pertaniannya maka Indonesia akan sulit mencapai ketahanan pangan.

27/12/2006

22/12/2006 Anything Goes. This proverb is probably suitable to describe the farmers’ condition at Majatra. When rice farming was not profitable, the farmers at Majatra shifted to rosella. Besides the easy process and low price, developing rosella turned out to give extra income.

15/12/2006 Manifesto elaborado durante o Encontro de Mulheres do Cone Sul e o Encontro Regional sobre Soberania Alimentar, realizados no Uruguai, em novembro de 2006

13/12/2006 SANTIAGO, Dec 12 (IPS) - In Chile, transgenic seeds may only be planted to produce crops for export. However, imported transgenic foods can be eaten here.

12/12/2006 En Nicoya celebran la primera Semana Ecológica Campesina. Los organizadores de la Feria se oponen a la pérdida de la tecnología campesina, a su base productiva basada en semillas probadas y adaptadas a las condiciones agroecológicas.

12/12/2006 Los agronegocios generan una agricultura sin agricultores, de monocultivos industriales, altamente extractiva y contaminante, controlada por el complejo de corporaciones que dominan la cadena de producción, distribución y comercialización agropecuaria y forestal

12/12/2006 The Fair Trade Forum, India organised a meet
Fair Trade Standards for a Wider Market: Opportunities and Challenges in New Delhi recently to deliberate on introducing fair trade curriculum in educational curriculum in India.

12/12/2006 With only 11 per cent of the earth’s surface considered prime land for feeding a global population expected to reach 8.2 billion by 2020, early warning systems for climate change are crucial in fighting land degradation that already affects 250 million people and threatens 1 billion more, the United Nations World Meteorological Organization (WMO) has warned.

09/12/2006 On November 9th Roberto Requião, Governor of the state of Paraná, dealt a blow to agribusiness when he signed a decree to expropriate the experimental test site owned by the Swiss multinational corporation Syngenta, located in Santa Tereza do Oeste.

07/12/2006 The Indian government is disappointed with international response to technology transfers and foreign direct investments under the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) of the Kyoto Protocol as it restricts the country’s ability to fight climate change.

05/12/2006 Colombiano y graduado como ingeniero agrónomo en la Universidad Federal de Pelotas, Río Grande del Sur, en Brasil, Jairo Restrepo Rivera recorre América latina desde hace más de 25 años promoviendo la agricultura orgánica y el desarrollo rural sostenible.

03/12/2006 SAN FRANCISCO, Dec 2 (OneWorld) - Starbucks CEO Jim Donald traveled to Addis Ababa to meet with Ethiopia's prime minister Meles Zenawi this week in an effort to head off what's becoming an increasingly public dispute over the Ethiopian government's efforts to trademark the country's best-known coffee blends.