Food / Farmers

Articles about Farmers, ordered by date. Open 'Farmers' in the New Internationalist magazine app for Android or iOS mobile devices.

Infected by Xylella, an olive tree that locals say is 1,500 years old, stands dead in Apulia, Italy.Photo: Antonio Sorrentino / Luz / Eyevine

Save the olives

Xylella is behind an unprecedented crisis in southern Apulia.

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NI 515 - Making peace in a world at war - September, 2018
515 - September, 2018
Photo: Natalia Riley

The politics of grazing

Report from West Cameroon by Natalia Riley.

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NI 512 - Public ownership rises again - May, 2018
512 - May, 2018
Better off? Forestry companies took fertile lands but gave little in return in the way of opportunity.Photo: Pascal Vossen

What the land grabbers did next

In 2013, New Internationalist travelled to Mozambique to meet communities pushing back against expanding forestry plantations. Five years on, Nils Adler finds foreign companies have yet to deliver on promises to local farmers.

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NI 510 - Black Lives Matter - March, 2018
510 - March, 2018
Illicit crops are still the only option for farmers like Arnulfo Perdomo.Photo: Shahidul Alam/DRIK

War on coca farmers continues

Inside the deeply-rooted economy of cocaine production and trafficking in Colombia, and how it might undermine Colombia’s peace. Bram Ebus reports.

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NI 509 - What's left for the young? - January, 2018
509 - January, 2018
Indigenous people, set to be robbed of their land rights, took their protest to Brasilia – to be rebuffed by armed forces.Photo: Gregg Newton / Reuters

Grand land theft

Vanessa Baird writes on how agribusiness has mounted a coup against rural Brazilians.

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NI 506 - Brazil's soft coup - October, 2017
506 - October, 2017

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Article title From magazine Publication date
Making peace in a world at war September, 2018
Public ownership rises again May, 2018
Black Lives Matter March, 2018
What's left for the young? January, 2018
Brazil's soft coup October, 2017
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