Tierramérica

Issue of December, 29, 2008



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and teachers of the Alto Palomar community-run school, in Peru.
Credit: Milza Hinostroza/IPS

Report
Peruvian Coffee Growers Cultivate Education
By Milza Hinostroza, Special to Tierramérica
At the epicenter of Peru's coffee boom, small producers are fighting poverty and the lack of public schooling.

Magellan penguins in the Malvinas/Falkland Islands, in the South Atlantic.
Credit: Photo Stock

Accents
Climate Change Forcing Penguins North?
By Adrianne Appel
Climate change could be the cauBOSTONse of an unprecedented stranding of thousands of penguins on the coast of Brazil, say researchers.

Eco-Briefs

ARGENTINA: Protests Against Rally Dakar
Environmental and citizen groups, academics and lawmakers in Argentina are protesting the Rally Dakar 2009, the race that will be held for the first time in South America, in January, passing through 10 of the country's provinces.

MEXICO: Unstoppable Logging in Monarch Butterfly Reserve
Logging has not stopped in the monarch butterfly sanctuaries in Mexico, report local residents. The butterflies make annual migrations between Mexico and the United States and Canada.

HONDURAS: Fisherfolk Protect Marine Resources
Fishing communities from the southern Honduran Gulf of Fonseca, on the Pacific coast, began construction in December of the first center for production and management of marine resources, in waters that Honduras shares with Nicaragua and El Salvador.

BRAZIL: Ranching Is the Leading Cause of Amazon Destruction
In Ulianópolis, one of the Brazilian Amazon's most deforested municipalities, 76 percent of the land that was forested is now pasture, according to data from the government's Amazon Protection System.

Lessons From a Unique Decade - José Graziano da Silva *
Rio+20 and Beyond: Together for a Sustainable Future - José Graziano da Silva *
Why Inclusive Green Growth Can Sustain Recent Gains in Latin America - Hasan Tuluy*
The Global Food Crisis and the Latin American Paradox - Pamela Cox