Land Grabbing
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The Global Land Grab
A concise and indispensable critical guide to the global phenomenon of land grabbing. Find out how the global land grab is justified, what is driving it, why transparency and guidelines won't stop it, and learn about alternatives that could enable people and communities to regain control of their land and territories.
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About Land grabbing
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Land grabbing in Latin America and the Caribbean in broader international perspectives
A critical re-assessment of a UN FAO study on land grabbing finds that a too-narrow definition has obscured evidence of land grabbing on a wider geographical scale than previously thought; this research includes new evidence of cases in Latin America and the Caribbean.
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A ‘Land Sovereignty’ Alternative?
Land sovereignty is the right of working peoples to have effective access to, use of, and control over land and the benefits of its use and occupation, where land is understood as resource, territory, and landscape.
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The Global Water Grab: A Primer
Water grabbing refers to situations where powerful actors take control of valuable water resources for their own benefit, depriving local communities whose livelihoods often depend on these resources and ecosystems.
Articles
Food Sovereignty: A Critical Dialogue
The concept of food sovereignty has exploded in the agrarian studies literature over the past decade, the aim of this critical dialogue was to explore whether or not the subject of food sovereignty has any intellectual future in critical agrarian...
Seeds of discontent
Watch this trailer for a powerful new documentary about how supposedly well-meaning Dutch and Swedish investments can result in land grabbing and human rights abuses in one small community in Mozambique.
Seeds of discontent documentary unveils how foreign investors fuel land grabs
A powerful new documentary film “Seeds of discontent” was launched today that draws attention to the role of a Swedish investment firm, Dutch pension fund and Norwegian church endowment firm in land grabbing in Mozambique.
Land & Sovereignty in the Americas: Bob St. Peter, Maine
Bob St. Peter, a landless farmer and the head of Food for Maine’s Future, knows first hand the struggles of family farms in America today.
Land & Sovereignty in the Americas: Sergio Sauer, Brazil
Sergio Sauer talks of history of land struggles in his native country and the dualistic roles his government plays to both restrict and expand land grab patterns in and out of Brazil.
Land & Sovereignty in the Americas: Alberto Alonso-Fredejas, Guatemala
Alberto Alonso-Fredejas on the narrative contexts in which land grabs are presented and legitimized, and how such activities lead to questions around capital, labor and community relations.
Land challenges in Europe: from landgrabbing to land reform
At the heart of the growing inequalities in Europe are the issues of land concentration and land grabbing. It is a critical subject and is having severe impacts on the prospects and viability of our communities.
Korbach Resolution to Stop Fracking
TNI is one of the many supporters of the Korbach Resolution, initiated by German anti-fracking-initiatives.
Parlament in Budapest stimmt über strittiges Bodengesetz ab
Die Regierung Orbán betont, sie wolle die großflächigen Agrarstrukturen aufbrechen und lokalen Landwirten Ackerbesitz ermöglichen - auch nach der Liberalisierung.
Fears over growth in land concessions
Activists have raised concerns about continued growth in large-scale land concessions to agribusinesses, warning that small-scale landholders are being left without a source of income.
Publications
Burma’s Ethnic Challenge: From Aspirations to Solutions
“Important steps have been made in national reconciliation during the past two years. But promises and ceremonies will never be enough. The long-standing aspirations of Burma’s peoples for peace and justice must find solutions during the present...
UPDATE: Land concentration, land grabbing and people’s struggles in Europe
Land issues and 'land grabs' are mostly associated with the global South, however 13 country studies in this updated landmark report reveal an accelerating grab and concentration of land across Europe.
Governing the Global Land Grab
The rise of flex crops—crops with multiple uses across food, feed, fuel and industrial complexes—has far-reaching implications for global land governance.
The right to say no
As European Union (EU) member states consider the implications of environmentally risky shale gas development (fracking), negotiations are underway for a controversial EU-Canada Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) which would grant...
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.
Sons and Daughters of the Earth
In the face of violent dispossession and incorporation into an exploitative labor regime, indigenous peasant families in northern Guatemala are struggling to access land and defend their resources as the basis of their collective identity.
Fracking and the global land grab
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...
A ‘Veritable Revolution’
This report looks into the new land restitution law, which Santos portrays as integral to Colombia’s ‘veritable revolution’, against the backdrop of agrarian policy in Colombia historically.
Competing political tendencies in global governance of land grabbing
Three political tendencies have emerged in response to land grabbing that are shaping the global debate and the potential future trajectory of land governance.
Global Tree Plantation Expansion
The expansion of tree plantations and non-food crops is frequently left out of analysis on land grabbing, but is a crucial part of the picture. This paper provides an up-to-date review of tree plantations worldwide and summarises the latest...
