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AGRA led national protest against landgrabbing

Indonesia – The Alliansi Gerakan Reforma Agraria (AGRA) conducted a national peasant protest during the week of Peasant Day on September 24, 2010. The theme of this protest is STOP LAND GRABBING.

The rally was held in 16 provinces nationwide with focus protest at the district levels. The protest calls to stop violence against the peasants at the plantation for biofuel and agrofuel production especially palm oil. Other issue is about the expansion of food estate in Indonesia in the context of “food security”.

APC joins the CSO Parallel Consultation in Korea

Gyeongju , South Korea -- The Asian Peasant Coalition (APC) joined the CSO Parallel Consultation in conjunction with the 30th FAO-Asia Pacific Regional Conference held in Gyeongju, Republic of Korea on September 27-October 1, 2010. It brought together representatives of farmers, fisherfolk ,indigenous peoples, rural women, rural youth, cooperatives, NGOs and other civil society organizations, and discussed the priority issues that are affecting the food security of the region.

[Update from India] Faking An Encounter: Killing the Peace Process

Dear Friends,

Here is an update from a member of the International League of Peoples Struggle (ILPS) in India on the "Preliminary Report of the All India Fact Finding Team on the Killing of Azad and H. C Pandey.

The high profile team visited Wankadi Mandal, Adilabad District on 20th & 21st of August, 2010 where the alleged encounter of Mr. Azad @ Cherukuri Rajkumar who was spokesperson of CPI Maoist Central Committee Member and Journalist Hemachandra Pandey took place on the intervening night of 1st and 2nd July, 2010.

APC Secretariat

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BKF and BKS organized a long-march demanding for the cancellation of lease of "Sonarhater Chora

Dear All,

Yesterday ( 18 July 2010 ) BKF & BKS Bhurungamari Sub-district committee organized a long-march joined by more than one thousand local landless and fisherfolks marched from Boldia to Bhurungamari to submit a memorandum to local government authority in Sub-district level.

The 20 Kilometer long march is demanding for the cancellation of lease of "Sonarhater Chora", a big water bodies in Bhurungamari sub-district under the northern Kurigram District. Sub-district commissioner received the memorandum and told us that they will try to do something for people.

DuPont set to double RI business in 5 years

Alfian, The Jakarta Post, Jakarta | Mon, 07/19/2010

Global giant DuPont expects its sales and investment in Indonesia to at
least double by 2015, citing positive progress in the local economy.

DuPont, an industrial materials producer, has been operating locally for
35 years and has invested more than US$100 million in Indonesia during
that time.

The company estimates its sales in Indonesia will reach around US$200
million this year, DuPont Asia Pacific Limited president Carl J. Lukach
said.

“My hope is to more than double our business [in Indonesia] within five

Greenpeace finds evidence of GM rice contamination in China's emergency grain stores

Jonathan Watts, Asia environment correspondent
The Guardian, 20 July 2010

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/jul/20/china-gm-rice-contamin...

*China's ban on GM rice questioned as environmental activists discover unapproved transgenic products at two grain sources

China's state grain reserves have been contaminated by illegal, genetically modified rice, according to an investigation by Greenpeace.

The environmental group says it has found tainted samples at two rice processing enterprises that source their products from the strategic food reserve.

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