“Caught in a cycle”: India’s sugarcane workers suffer debt bondage as climate change bites
SANKET JAIN, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports on how climate shocks in Maharashtra ruin crops for many farmers leading some to migrate to sugarcane fields to seek work where some say they are trapped due to low pay, poor conditions…
Sierra Leone passes new laws to boost landowners’ rights
Freetown, Sierra Leone Reuters Sierra Leone’s parliament on Monday passed two laws that lawyers say will help boost the rights of rural landowners and women against land grabs by big mining and agribusiness firms. The West African country has a history of sometimes deadly conflict between local communities and foreign companies that have cleared huge […]