Avia Terai Community Members Tell Their Stories

Sydney Jones

Press Secretary

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Carole Mitchell

Global Communications Director

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Avia Terai Community Members Tell Their Stories 

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Catalina is a local farmer in Argentina’s Chaco province. Here, she talks about some of the medical problems she’s seeing linked to soy production for biofuels.[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQgq4D4UR8s&feature=youtu.be[/embedyt]

Dr. Maria del Carmen Seveso talks about some of the medical problems she is seeing as a result of soy production for biofuels in her region.

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Silvia Ponce lives in the village of Avia Terai. Her daughter was born in 2008 with a number of health problems that she believes are linked to soy production for biofuels in her region.

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