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Inter-American Development Bank Megaprojects: Displacement and Forced Migration
Tuesday 1 June 2010
For the National Alliance of Latin American and Caribbean Communities (the English acronym is NALAAC), an organization of communities of Latin American migrants who live in the Diaspora of globalization, displacement of communities and forced migration comprise the central issue. We in Latin (...) > continue
Farmland leasing and purchasing also planned
Saudia Arabia eyes U.S. for ag investing, contracts
Direct contracts for grain, other commodities eyed
Sunday 16 May 2010
FIAN International Press Release
New FIAN report on landgrabbing in Kenya and Mozambique
Stop landgrabbing immediately
Friday 14 May 2010
Heidelberg, 16.04.2010 – On the International Day of Peasants’ Struggle, April 17, FIAN International together with many other civil society actors calls for an immediate stop of land grabbing. A new report published today by FIAN International documents the findings of two research missions on (...) > continue
Biofuels drive raises risk of farmer eviction in Africa
ScienceDaily
Friday 14 May 2010
Principles for responsible investment in agriculture
Remarks made by Olivier De Schutter UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food
Thursday 6 May 2010
I am worried. A consensus is emerging among the international institutions about the need to guide investment in agriculture in order to ensure that it shall proceed responsibly, and many of us are here today because they wish to contribute to shaping this consensus. But at the same time, many (...) > continue
Monocropping of Sugarcane and Counter-Agrarian Reform
Maria Luisa Mendonça
Thursday 6 May 2010
This article was translated into English by Sheila Rutz, with the support of Global Exchange.
Maria Luisa Mendonça is a journalist and director of the Network for Social Justice and Human Rights, and is currently pursuing a PHD in Geography at the University of São Paulo (...) > continue
Turning African farmland over to big business
The US’s Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC)
Thursday 6 May 2010
The reconquest of recuperated land in Chiapas
By Mary Ann Tenuto
Wednesday 5 May 2010
The farm truck pulled off a dirt road into the ruins of an old and very large former plantation. It parked on the expanse of crumbling tile patio. Twelve of us, plus the driver, climbed out and entered a building painted rust and turquoise for a meeting with members of San Manuel’s autonomous (...) > continue
Communitarian Socialism in Bolivia
By Roger Burbach
Monday 12 April 2010
STOP LAND GRABBING NOW!!
Say NO to the principles of “responsible” agro-enterprise investment promoted by the World Bank
La Via Campesina FIAN Land Research Action Network GRAIN
Monday 12 April 2010
State and private investors, from Citadel Capital to Goldman Sachs, are leasing or buying up tens of millions of hectares of farmlands in Asia, Africa and Latin America for food and fuel production. This land grabbing is a serious threat for the food sovereignty of our peoples and the right to (...) > continue
