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10/01/2019

Symposium: Encountering the Global Countryside

PRESENTATIONS NOW AVAILABLE Encountering the Global Countryside Thursday 24th January 2019 The Drwm, National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth. A day of presentations from the ERC GLOBAL-RURAL project exploring the impacts of globalization of rural societies and economies and rural community responses, including talks on food and agriculture, land-grabbing, migration, international volunteers, rural festivals and everyday […]

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Agribusiness and alternatives, Biofuels, Counter Globalisation Movement, Food Security, Globalisation of Food, Health, Poverty, Water Resources ,  12/10/2018

Blood in bio-ethanol: how indigenous peoples’ lives are being destroyed by global agribusiness in Brazil

Written by Fois Francesca and Montenegro Machado and published in The Conversation, 30/08/2018. For more than half a century, the indigenous Kaiowá and Guarani people of Brazil have been deprived of their ancestral lands, and consigned to small reserves where it is impossible to maintain their traditional livelihoods. Generations of these indigenous peoples’ lives have been marked by […]

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