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Viral times - The politics of emerging global animal diseases
Monday 10 August 2009
The world is in the midst of big changes with respect to global animal diseases. We are heading for more diseases, more deadly types of disease, and more capacity for these diseases to spread. There is also a greater probability of the emergence of zoonotic diseases and global pandemics.Yet the (...) > continue
Fian International, Friends of the Earth International and La Via Campesina condemn the forced eviction of the community of Las Pavas
Monday 10 August 2009
27/07/2009. - FIAN International, Friends of the Earth International and La Via Campesina condemn the forced eviction that occurred on July 14, 2009 of 120 families settled in the rural area known as Las Pavas, located in the Buenos Aires district, jurisdiction of the municipality of El Peñón, (...) > continue
Philippine Daily Inquirer
Land reform suffers reversal in Sariaya
By Delfin Mallari Jr.
Monday 10 August 2009
SARIAYA, Quezon-What the government gave to these farmers, it will take away 11 years after. > continue
Let’s discuss and combine to avert Jatropha soffocation of countries of the ’South’
by Makanjuola Olaseinde ARIGBEDE
Monday 10 August 2009
FUNDAMENTAL OBJECTIONS TO AGROFUELS With special reference to JATROPHA – DIESEL > continue
An Agrarian Crisis in the Making
by Carmina B. Flores-Obanil and Mary Ann Manahan
Monday 10 August 2009
As the importance of agrarian reform and rural development is underscored, given the multiple crises in our midst, the country’s agrarian reform program has been further undermined. > continue
India joins ’neocolonial’ rush for Africa’s land and labour
By Dean Nelson in New Delhi
Tuesday 21 July 2009
Fixing our Global Food System
Food Sovereignty and Redistributive Land Reform
Tuesday 21 July 2009
Peter Rosset resides in Chiapas, Mexico, where he is a researcher for the Center for the Study of Rural Change in Mexico (CECCAM), and co-coordinates the Land Research Action Network (http://www.landaction.org). He is also part of the technical support team of La Vía Campesina, the global (...) > continue
Global Campaign for Agrarian Reform
Madagascar: threat of large-scale land acquisition by foreign companies
EMERGENCY NETWORK 0911AMDG 16.07.09
Monday 20 July 2009
In November 2008 it was revealed that the Korean company Daewoo would have signed a contract for leasing 1.3 million ha for 99 years to produce maize and palm oil in Madagascar. The whole harvest was intended to be exported to Korea and the terms of the contract were skewed in favour of the (...) > continue
Land Reform and National Development in Nepal
Professor Wen Tiejun (Beijing) Dr. Lau Kinchi (Hongkong)
Monday 29 June 2009
Abstract
The argument of the paper is that up to now, in South Asia, there has not been any successful model of land reform conducted legally and scientifically in the name of the state, whereas in East Asia, there has not been any unsuccessful case of land reform, whatever ideologies or (...) > continue
Food security and sustainable livelihood in China
Lau Kin Chi
Monday 29 June 2009
In 2007 and early 2008, the global food crisis and inflation hit most countries with varying degrees of severity. China, being largely self-sufficient in grain production, was nevertheless not immune to the problem of food security in relation to people’s livelihood.
In 2007, China produced (...) > continue
