Food & Agriculture

A Landmark Victory for Justice: Biowatch’s Battle with the South African State and Monsanto

May 2013
Rachel Wynberg

Published by  Biowatch South Africa, this is a book about access to information, the right to know, and action in the public’s interest – a must-read for anyone campaigning for environmental or social justice.

Land grabbing through a food security lens

April 2013

Out of the kaleidoscope of different angles through which land grab can be analysed, the one elevating food security – and food sovereignty – as a crucial concern is amongst the most engaging and the less inquired, especially in its intertwining with policy elaboration.

Land rush in Europe comparable with Africa, Asia and Latin America, argues new report

April 2013

New report, involving 25 authors from 11 countries, reveals the hidden scandal of how just three per cent of landowners have come to control half of all farmed land in Europe. This massive concentration of land ownership and wealth is on a par with Brazil, Colombia and Philippines.

Land concentration, land grabbing and people’s struggles in Europe

April 2013
European Coordination Via Campesina (ECVC) & Hands-Off The Land (HOTL) Alliance

Land grabbing is widely assumed to be happening only in the global South, but an in-depth analysis by a team of researchers shows that land grabbing is also expanding into Europe.

Sons and Daughters of the Earth

April 2013
Food First & TNI, Alberto Alonso-Fradejas

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.

Are African land grabs really water grabs?

March 2013
Lyla Mehta, Gert Jan Veldwisch

As land is grabbed and earmarked in Africa for supposed development, there are nearly always implications for the water nearby, for local people's land and water rights and environmental sustainability.

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Secure Peoples' Access to Land

September 2012
Claire Guffens, Florence Kroff

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"?

Video: The causes of the global food crisis

August 2012
Philip McMichael

The global food crisis seems the result of moving to increasingly unsustainable, simplified and industrialised agriculture, neoliberal foodspeculation and landgrabbing.

A ‘Land Sovereignty’ Alternative?

July 2012

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.

Green Grabbing: a new appropriation of nature?

July 2012

Across the world, ‘green grabbing’ – the appropriation of land and resources for environmental ends – is an emerging process of deep and growing significance. In recent years there has been a veritable explosion of scholarship examining the neoliberalization of environments, nature and conservation, drawing partly on older traditions of ecological/green Marxism and critical political ecology