Friends of the Earth Cardiff Cyfeillion y Ddaear Caerdydd

Today marks the first anniversary of the disappearance of 26-year-old Sandra Viviana Cuellar Gallego, an environmental engineer and activist from Cali, Colombia.

At the time of her disappearance, Sandra was on her way to the National University in Palmira, Valle del Cauca Department.

Her identity card and cell phone were found a few days later near where she was supposed to catch a bus.

A man stands on the land taken from him to make way for a palm oil plantation. Kalangala, Uganda. Photo: Jason Taylor

The Ugandan government is promoting large-scale agrofuels plantations as a solution to the climate crisis at the UN climate talks in Durban, South Africa. Yet millions of people are already facing the impacts of land grabs and evictions caused by agrofuels.

Marlon Lozano Yulan. Photo courtesy of Twitter

Ecuadorian land activist Marlon Lozano Yulan, of the Tierra y Vida (Land and Life) was murdered in Guayaquil, Ecuador on July 20 2011.