Mexico's family farmers' organization claims that the outgoing conservative government of President Vicente Fox failure in stimulating domestic production, and free-trade agreements has driven subsistence farmers to the brink of ruin.
Nearly half the fish consumed as food worldwide are raised on fish farms rather than caught in the wild, says a new report from FAO.
Argentine and British representatives will be meeting next week in London to discuss the long term fishing licences issued by the Falkland Islands government and bilateral cooperation in the South Atlantic according to sources from both sides quoted in the Buenos Aires press.
Lakeland Timber Framed Homes, of East Holywell near Whitley Bay, has picked up a one million pounds order from the United Kingdom's Ministry of Defence to build twelve cabin homes in the Falkland Islands, reports Monday's editions of The Journal, Northern Business Daily from Newcastle.
Production at Escondida in northern Chile, the world's largest copper mine, resumed over the weekend after a 25-day strike. Union workers voted to accept a proposal from the company offering a five percent wage hike and an end-of-negotiation bonus of US$17,000.
Carbon dioxide levels are substantially higher now than at anytime in the last 800,000 years, the latest study of ice drilled out of Antarctica confirms. The in-depth analysis of air bubbles trapped in a 3.2km-long core of frozen snow shows current greenhouse gas concentrations are unprecedented.
Uruguay will become an open destination for Chinese tourists following a meeting this week between Uruguayan president Tabare Vazquez and the Chinese Ambassador in Montevideo, Wang Xiaoyuan, reports Beijing's People's Daily.
Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez promised that if he wins the coming December election he will call a referendum in 2010 on his administration, and if positive will propose a constitutional review to end the two consecutive periods' reelection limit.
Peruvian president Alan Garcia has been officially invited to visit Argentina in the near future announced in Lima Foreign Affairs Secretary Jorge Taiana, a clear attempt from both sides to fasten the cooperation links of a long standing historical bilateral relation.
One of America's top scientists has said that the world has already entered a state of dangerous climate change reports BBC.