Hands off the Land

  • About Hands off the Land

    The Hands off the Land project aims to raise awareness about land grabbing amongst the European public, politicians, policy makers, students and professionals.

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    Secure Peoples' Access to Land

    What is the potential and what are the challenges to implement the new “Voluntary Guidelines on the responsible governance of tenure of land, fisheries and forests in the context of national food security"?

  • Positive Land Investment Alternatives

    Much touted "land investment" involves appropriation or landgrabbing. What positive alternative investments should public policy support which would strengthen the right to food, re-valorise agricultural work, and build up ecological capital?

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    Banacol implicated in paramilitarism and landgrabbing in Colombia

    Evidence shows that transnational tropical fruit producer Banacol provided support to paramilitary groups and predatory businessmen involved in land-invasions in Colombia.

Articles

Fracking will lead to health, environmental damage

Despite arguments to the contrary, it seems as if fracking in the Karoo will cause large-scale damage to the environment, the health of people living there and the economy of the area.

Via Campesina dénonce l'accaparement et la concentration des terres en Europe (rapport)

La Coordination Européenne Via Campesina (ECVC) dénonce à nouveau la concentration et l'accaparement des terres agricoles, dans un rapport paru le 17 avril. Mais cette fois-ci leur intervention cible l'Europe.

From local to global: prioritizing food security

Stakeholders involved in PPPs should be more aware of the local livelihoods, cultural and environmental circumstances, in which small-scale farmers produce food (e.g. read the articles of...

Networking against Fracking

Satoko Kishimoto

Global networking is key to winning battle against fracking, say activists at WSF.

No hierarchy, equal access

Sylvia Kay

Horizontally structured initiatives, like farmer to farmer partnerships, are more equal forms of rural development than traditional public private partnerships (PPP). They provide equal access to technology and knowledge production, to land and...

Chinese fracking plans prompt “water-grabbing” fears

Jennifer Franco
Timothé Feodoroff

China has become one of Asia's leaders in expanding unconventional shale-gas extraction in the name of energy self-sufficiency and national autonomy. Experiences of “fracking” worldwide, however, suggest the costs to China of joining this...

Investigate the escalating human rights abuses

Call on the European Commission to investigate the escalating human rights abuses in Cambodia resulting from the granting of economic land concessions for agro-industrial development. 

Publications

Protecting carbon to destroy forests

This paper provides historical background and reports of experiences on the ground to show how land and nature enclosures are central to REDD+, and why it therefore cannot be fixed.

Fracking and the global land grab

Jennifer Franco
Timothé Feodoroff

Linking the current booming of the newly applied and fast spreading technology for unconventional gas extraction within the broader pattern of land and water grabbing, this report defines fracking, why and where it is happening today, who is...

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Human Rights in Niassa Province

How do the treeplantations in Niassa province impair the rights of peasant communities? And what are the recommendations to the different actors involved?

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Banacol implicated in paramilitarism and landgrabbing in Colombia

Evidence shows that transnational tropical fruit producer Banacol provided support to paramilitary groups and predatory businessmen involved in land-invasions in Colombia.

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Secure Peoples' Access to Land

What is the potential and what are the challenges to implement the new “Voluntary Guidelines on the responsible governance of tenure of land, fisheries and forests in the context of national food security"?

Positive Land Investment Alternatives

Sylvia Kay

Much touted "land investment" involves appropriation or landgrabbing. What positive alternative investments should public policy support which would strengthen the right to food, re-valorise agricultural work, and build up ecological capital?

The European Union and the Global Land Grab

This fact sheet highlights the involvement of the EU in the global land grab, both directly through the involvement of European capital and corporations in the acquisition of land and indirectly through EU policies that commodify land.