PARAGUAY SOJERO

Written by:

Javiera Rulli (javierarulli@yahoo.com)

Stella Semino (stella.semino@mail.dk)

Lilian Joensen (lilianj16@yahoo.com)

Edited by:

Nina Holland (buen-aventura@gmx.net)

Layout:

An Maeyens (an@aseed.net)

Grupo de Reflexión Rural, www.grr.org.ar.

Argentina- March 2006

report available on www.grr.org.ar and www.aseed.net

FOREWORD

This report, produced by Grupo de Reflexión Rural, was presented at the 8th Conference of the Parties (COP8) to the Convention on Biological Diversity and the 3rd Meeting of the Parties (MOP3) to the Biosafety Protocol, held in Curitiba, Brazil, March 13-31 2006.

The aim of this report is to expose the reality of the agroexport model that is dictated by the neoliberal ideology promoted by wealthy nations, and adopted by national governments of the South. This report provides detailed examples of the people whose lives and environments are being destroyed by the advancement of ‘green deserts’ like soy, but who are still resisting and fighting for their way of live.

This report was made possible only because of the people in Paraguay who have provided us with their testimonies and other essential information. Especially we want to thank Jorge Galeano and the people of Tekojoja and Movimiento Agrario y Popular, Tomas Palau from BaseIS, the women of CONAMURI, Fermin Bobadilla and Belarmino Balbuena of the MCP for their time, vision and generosity.

We want to specially thank our friends Nina Holland, An Maeyens and Taylor Stevenson that helped to publish this report, by doing all technical and essential work such as correcting, revising and editing.

We call upon the international community to learn of the struggles in Paraguay, and support the people and organisations involved in any way they can. We plea human rights organisations to monitor the situation in Paraguay.

We hope this report will be widely used to this end.

INDEX

Foreword

Executive Summary

Introduction

Chapter 1. Land distribution and the introduction of monocultures in Paraguay

Chapter 2. Paraguay Sojero

Chapter 3. Resistance and Repression: the violent face of the soy model

Chapter 4. Agrochemical fumigations and intoxications related to (GM) soy

production in Paraguay

Chapter 5. WWF promoting Private Conservation and “Sustainable Soy”

Chapter 6. Soy expansion and the Biodiversity Convention

Conclusions and Final Remarks

References

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