"Suriname’s Saamaka Maroons still grow rice from seeds an ancestor escaping from a plantation carried in her hair. Now a gene bank seeks to widen use of the rare species to help fight the climate crisis".
Jason Pinas (The Guardian) reports from Klaaskreek, Suriname. He writes about the possible immigration of Mennonite farmers to Suriname: “Secretive Christian sect poised to carve big farms out of the Amazon, despite concerns of Indigenous people about the settlers’ deforestation elsewhere in Latin America.” Tempers are running high in Klaaskreek, a village 50 miles south…
Secretive Christian sect poised to carve big farms out of the Amazon, despite concerns of Indigenous people about the settlers’ deforestation elsewhere in Latin America
The Indigenous peoples’ march brought the issue of Indigenous land rights directly to the Surinamese government in 1976 with the slogan “Land rights are human rights.” However, 44 years later, Tribal communities are still fighting for recognition of their land rights.