Peasant Movements
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...
Turn despair into hope at the Earth summit
More than 100 civil society organisations from every continent now join forces in a new major campaign, Stop Corporate Impunity, to dismantle corporations' power...
Farmers demand the World Bank and Wall Street stop grabbing their lands
The World Bank’s policies for land privatisation and concentration, have paved the way for corporations from Wall Street to Singapore to take upwards of 80 million hectares of land from rural communities across the world in the past few years,...
17 April: International Day of Peasant's Struggle
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Stand up for small-scale food producers
Put pressure on U.S. and Canadian delegates to the UN's Committee on World Food Security (CFS) to stop land grabbing.
Meeting the challenge of feeding the world and cooling the Earth
Two papers analysing the recent experience of Latin America, and Cuba in particular, support arguments that a shift from industrial-large scale farming to small-scale farming can bring environmental, economic and political benefits.
It's time for food sovereignty!
The Journal of Peasants Studies has made available a selection of research papers to download free: covering food sovereignty, the politics of land, agrofuels and justice movements.
La Vía Campesina and its Global Campaign for Agrarian Reform
Publications
Between Mobilisation and Conflict
The agrarian sector launched a national strike in Colombia which spread quickly across other sectors, against the impacts of the FTA with the US and Canada. It is evident that the current economic model has failed as a result of a combination of...
The Politics of Transnational Agrarian Movements
Transnational Agrarian Movements (TAMs) have emerged in the last decade, resisting and contesting unfair land policies; but how do they differ from region to region, and how do their ideological, political and institutional differences affect...
La Vía Campesina
