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Carbon blood money in Honduras
By Rosie Wong, published in Foreign Policy In Focus, March 9, 2012 With its muddy roads, humble huts, and constant military patrols, Bajo Aguán, Honduras feels a long way away from the...
The Paradox of Cuban Agriculture
Agroecology and food sovereignty makes huge advances By Miguel A. Altieri and Fernando R. Funes-Monzote, Monthly Review, Vol 63, Issue 8, January 2012
Interview with Camille Chalmers, director of the Haitian Platform for an Alternative Development (PAPDA)
Interview by Augusta Dwyer, published on August Dwyer's blog, Global Kiosk, February 13, 2012
Brigade Dessalines : initiative de La Via Campesina et du Mouvement des Sans Terre du Brésil
Haiti Liberté, 18 janvier 2012 " L´exploitation étrangère est la cause des difficultés de Haïti ". Par Luciana Taddeo* "Vous êtes...
Toward a Second Haitian Revolution
By Steven Stoll, published in Harper's Magazine, April 2010 (available online to subscribers only)
Haiti Can Be Rich Again
By LAURENT DUBOIS and DEBORAH JENSON Op-ed, New York Times, January 8, 2012 HAITI wasn’t always the “poorest nation in the Western hemisphere,” though it’s almost...
Haitian peasant leader: Peasant farming can cool the planet; Food sovereignty can solve the climate crisis
Interview with Chavannes Jean-Baptiste in Durban, South Africa
Haitian farmers undermined by food aid
Published on iWatch News, Jan 11, 2012 http://pulitzercenter.org/reporting/haiti-earthquake-united-states-usaid-food-aid-exports-program-farmers-clinton-monsanto-rice   In the months...
A Quake-Scarred Nation Tries a Rural Road to Recovery
  By RANDAL C. ARCHIBOLD, New York Times, Dec 26, 2011 PAPAYE, Haiti — For months after the earthquake that struck the capital, Manel Laurore pulled shattered bodies from his...
Food Sovereignty: Reclaiming the Global Food System
November 14, 2011
New report: GM crops promote superweeds, food insecurity and pesticides, say NGOs
Report titled "The Emperor Has No Clothes"* finds genetically modified crops fail to increase yields let alone solve hunger, soil erosion and chemical-use issues   By John Vidal...
Peasants march for land rights, food sovereignty
Monsanto in Haiti By Beverly Bell, Other Worlds, June 28, 2011.
Planting the Trees of Life
After centuries of destruction, Haitians try to recover their country’s lost forests By Jacques Leslie, May 30, 2011 Published on On Earth, Nature & Wildlife Feature Story Summer 2011
Appeal to President Martelly to Help Save Haitian Agriculture, May 2011
We, the undersigned, are concerned by the introduction into Haiti of products made by the transnational company Monsanto and call on the new government to take steps to protect Haitian agriculture...
Profile of Tèt Kole Ti Peyizan Ayisyen (Heads Together Small Producers of Haiti)
"For a Better Life for the Peasants": Food Sovereignty and Land Reform in Haiti Tèt Kole Ti Peyizan Ayisyen Submitted by Beverly Bell, Other Worlds Are Possible, July 15,...
Book Review: The Criminal Tale of Monsanto
By Phil Shannon Green Left Weekly, March 27, 2011 The World According to Monsanto: Pollution, Politics & Power By Marie-Monique Robin, Spinifex Press, 2010 (see also the 2008 documentary...