Agriculture & Rural Issues

A far-right victory in upcoming elections could reverse hard-fought gains for victims of the armed conflict, including survivors of one of Colombia’s most notorious paramilitary massacres.

As Peru heads toward another polarized runoff, the country remains caught between two competing visions of the national future.

Enrique C. Ochoa details the transformation of Mexico’s food economy from a traditional, locally controlled system to one driven by neoliberal ideas of modernity and efficiency.

After the murder of their leader, communities in the Aguán Valley have continued their fight against corruption, impunity, and the pollution of their lands.

In his new book, historian Javier Puente chronicles how rural communities in the Andean highlands played a key role in the making of state power in twentieth-century Peru.

For an MST activist, a win for Lula in the upcoming runoff vote against Bolsonaro is only one step in a crucial struggle to rebuild the Brazilian and Latin American Left.

Amid rising prices, small farmers in Southern Peru rely on traditional food systems to confront the food crisis.

In Brazil's semi-arid northeast, family farmers are using technology and collective resource management to fight climate change and environmental degradation.

Inspiradas en la larga trayectoria de la lucha por la tierra en el país, las organizaciones campesinas demandan un papel activo en las políticas agrarias del nuevo gobierno.

A new documentary highlights the many difficulties facing an emerging generation of young farmers in Puerto Rico.

The rising costs of consumer goods has stoked the country's peasant movement.

Members of Colombia's Emberá community, many of whom are victims of conflict, have camped for months in Colombia's capital to generate attention and demand change.