Today's quick reads
Three articles selected for you today from New Internationalist magazine.
Holding out for the harvest
534 - November, 2021
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The stratagems of big corporate players and a compliant government will make the job of growing food not worth doing for Indian smallholders. Farming is not just an occupation but a way of life – and the fightback is robust. Navsharan Singh outlines just what is at stake.
Italians obstruct ‘Europe’s Keystone’ pipeline in Puglia
Protests in southern Italy have delayed plans for construction of a vast natural-gas pipeline into Europe, writes Sarah Shoraka.
Teófilo Acuña
Colombian activist Teófilo Acuña on the danger of confronting paramilitaries.
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