This Bolivian indigenous nation made up of almost 2,600 people living north of the La Paz region in the NCL (Native Community Land), Mosetén. They are forced to come to an agreement with timber merchants, which burden them with debt for life. Benjamin Serra On both sides of […]
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Lights and shadows of “Fair Trade”
More than 1.2 million farmers in 66 developing countries produce goods such as sugar, coffee and cotton to promote social justice in poor regions. But not everyone benefits and there are even some negative effects. Benjamin Serra The impact of consumerism in the first world for people living […]
Five days on £1 a day?
Intermon Oxfam is setting a challenge to live below the poverty line for five days from the 29th April to the 3rd May: participants must prepare five days’ worth of meals on a budget of just £5. . Such a restricted budget does not even cover the cost of a […]
Whilst thousands are starving, others throw food away
Europeans waste 90 million tons of food every year. An insignificant amount when compared to the 2 billion tons thrown away by humans that could be used to feed the 870 million people that are starving in the world. Olga Briasco Next to some bins around a market […]
Going “green” at any human cost
Between 1990 and 2005, the cultivation of rice, beans, maize and sorghum reduced by half. It was replaced by single crop farming: to export bananas and pineapples, and produce agro-fuels such as palm oil and sugar cane.– – Inés Giménez Delgado . Since entering into a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) […]