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    The War on Colombia’s Poor
    January 2012
    Ross Eventon

    The EU's proposed free trade agreement with Colombia will worsen the already serious human rights violations in the country, as its drive to access to cheap raw materials for European corporations means forcing local people off their land.

    Globalising Hunger
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    October 2011
    Thomas Fritz

    While the EU's Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) persists with its central focus of fostering competitiveness and exports of European agribusiness, it will continue to undermine small-scale farming and create greater food insecurity in the global South.

     

    Is water the hidden agenda of land acquisition in Africa?
    October 2011
    P. Woodhouse and A. S. Ganho

    Implicit in the global land grab is the potential for a major water grab. A study of sub-Saharan Africa raises concerns that  large-scale commercial agriculture could cause unforeseen but disproportionate impacts on access to water by small-scale producers.

    Protect people's lands, water and forests
    October 2011

     CSOs remind all governments of their immense responsibilities in reaching an agreement on one of the most pressing issues of our time.

    The Politics of Agrofuels and Mega-land and Water deals
    June 2011
    David Fig
    Jun Borras
     Sofía Monsalve Suárez

    The Procana Bioethanol project in Mozambique is a clear example of how agrofuel investments contribute rather than mitigate climate change, and are often accompanied by dispossession and impoverishment caused by landgrabbing.

    Landgrabs, conflict and the agro-industrial complex
    June 2011
    Jun Borras

    The latest research on landgrabbing exposes the myth of 'reserve agricultural land' and highlights the new economic players  behind the latest wave of dispossession across the South.

    European trade policy and the food crisis in Africa
    May 2011
    Dot Keet

    Dot Keet explains how IMF and World Bank policies have brought about the current food crisis in Africa, and why food sovereignty and local production are necessary to secure long term food security.

    Obama's dirty energy fixation
    April 2011
    Daphne Wysham

    Despite the clear alarm bells sounded by Fukushima and the BP Gulf oilspill, Obama has yet to change either his energy policies or strategy.

    Agricultural Innovation: Sustaining what agriculture? For what European bio-economy?
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    February 2011
    Jennifer Franco
    Lucia Goldfarb
    David Fig
     Les Levidow, S.M.Oreszczyn et al.

    The Europe 2020 strategy's promotion of resource-efficient technologies and market incentives as the solution for sustainable agriculture is contradicted by experience where techno-fixes and market pressures have increased overall demand on resources.

    SOTU: Parsing Obama's 'Clean Energy' Promises
    February 2011

    Is there such a thing as clean coal, gas and nuclear power? What is the actual meaning of clean energy as mentioned by Obama in his State of the Union speech? And will it have any effect on climate change? 

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