For a few months now, the press has been echoing a phenomenon which is worrying news for the millions of small farmers already weakened by the food crisis: the massive buying (...)

Urgent Appeal n° 323 from 12 December 2008 to 29 January 2009 From a small family business set up in 1913 by Mario Prada, a modest Milanese fine leather dealer, to one of the (...)

Urgent Appeal n° 322 (from 17 November to 17 December 2008) In an Appeal in January 2007, “Peuples Solidaires” denounced the Philippine government’s (...)

Urgent Appeal n°320 (from 18 September to 15 November 2008) In the context of climate change and escalating oil prices, biofuels are presented as a sustainable alternative (...)

Appeal n° 313 (from 26 December 2007 to 28 February 2008) In the North of Brazil, bordering the Amazon forest, the survival of hundreds of thousands of women and their (...)

Appeal n° 311 (25 October - 10 December 2007) Almost eleven years after the peace agreements between the government and the guerrilla were signed, the level of violence in (...)

Appeal n° 309 (15 September - 15 October 2007) That’s it, they did it: this year, Toyota, the Japanese automotive giant, became the world’s top car manufacturer. (...)

From 2 to 20 October 2006, 350km of the national highway between Gwalior and Delhi, India, were the scene of the Chetawni Yatra, a peaceful demonstration march in which 400 (...)

The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is extremely rich in natural resources, including diamonds, the country’s most valued export With . Yet the diamond trade has not (...)

With 115 plantations and sales in over 60 countries, Chiquita is world leader in the banana market, ex aequo with its main rival Dole. Under mounting pressure from consumers, (...)