Land: Merchandise or Human Right?
April 27, 2004
Across the world today, land is being transformed from being the base of communities’ life into a commodity. The European Union in embarking on a process of drafting common land policy guidelines for development cooperation. The development of a distinctive “European approach” to land reform issues offers good chances to contribute to the realisation of the human rights of rural populations and to guarantee the food sovereignty of all peoples. This formal statement is drafted jointly by small farmer and peasant organizations as an endorsement of European Union land policies.
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Land: Merchandise or Human Right? Promoting rights-based land reform through European land policies for
development co-operation
Brussels 13-14
April 2004
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