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In Nicaragua, Supplying Beef to the U.S. Comes at a High Human Cost

PBS NewsHour
October 20, 2020
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“When outbreaks of COVID-19 at meat processing plants in the U.S. slowed production, American wholesalers and grocery chains turned to foreign beef suppliers. Producers in the small country of Nicaragua were happy to fulfill U.S. demand — but doing so has come at a high cost for local communities. Nate Halverson of the Center for Investigative Reporting’s Reveal has the story.”

Privatisation 'Wave' Hurts Poor as Pandemic Heightens Risks

Reuters
July 14, 2020
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BANGKOK, July 14 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A push to privatise land and other resources in countries from Ukraine to Papua New Guinea is hurting indigenous people and the rural poor, while increasing the risks linked to climate change, researchers at a U.S.-based think tank said on Tuesday.

Report: Nicaragua government failing to protect indigenous

The Washington Post
April 29, 2020
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The violence has increased in recent years, obscured first by the government’s crackdown on protests that began in April 2018 and more recently by the world’s attention being diverted by the coronavirus pandemic. So far this year, eight people have been killed in these communities, said Anuradha Mittal, the institute’s executive director and author of the report. Four of those deaths came in late March.
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  • Sweden Drops Uganda Forest Carbon Deal with Green Resources Due to Unresolved Land Disputes
    Development Today

    After four years in limbo, the Swedish Energy Agency is terminating its agreement with the Norwegian forestry company Green Resources for the purchase of carbon credits from the Kachung pine plantation in Uganda, citing unresolved disputes with local people over land use, an agency spokesperson confirms to Development Today.

  • A False Forest in Uganda
    The Upstream Journal

    How a project claiming sustainable development and climate change mitigation brought human rights abuse and environmental destruction.

    What connects Ugandan farmers, a Norwegian company, Sweden and Caribbean Pine trees?  A questionable project that claims to fight climate change, but instead drew attention for human rights abuse and...

  • Report: Sarawakian logging firms party to Papua New Guinea’s deforestation
    Malay Mail
    KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 7 -- Malaysian companies from Sarawak are allegedly trespassing while carrying out logging activities in Papua New Guinea (PNG) and contributing towards deforestation in the island nation, Sarawak Report (SR) wrote today.
  • As Ethiopia's Abiy Ahmed Collects the Nobel Peace Prize, Abuses in the Lower Omo Valley Must Be Addressed
    LifeGate
    Abiy Ahmed was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for achieving peace with Eritrea. Yet Indigenous groups in Ethiopia's Lower Omo Valley have been abused by government forces, a fact the prime minister must address, says the Oakland Institute.
  • Will Artificial Intelligence Help Resolve the Food Crisis?
    IPS - Inter Press Service

    UNITED NATIONS, Nov 14 2019 (IPS) - When UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres made a global appeal for “zero hunger” on World Food Day last month, he provided some grim statistics rich in irony: more than 820 million people do not have enough to eat, he said, while two billion people are overweight or obese.

  • Sweden Postpones Carbon Payment to Uganda Tree Farm where Locals have been Evicted
    Development Today

    Ann Danaiya Usher

    A planned disbursement of SEK 10 million by the Swedish Energy Agency (SEA) for emissions reductions produced by the Kachung plantation in Uganda, owned by the Norwegian company Green Resources, has been delayed due to on-going concerns about the project. Development Today has learned that the Swedes...

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