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    Why peace and land security is key to Burma's democratic future
    May 2012
    Tom Kramer

    Analysis of the social costs of large-scale Chinese-supported rubber farms in northern Burma suggests that the future for ordinary citizens will be affected as much by the country's chosen economic path as the political reforms underway. 

    Green Grabbing: a new appropriation of nature?
    April 2012

    The Journal of Peasant Studies (JPS) published a huge special issue on 'green grabbing - land grabbing in the name of the environment'. Find out how to get your own free copy.

    17 April: International Day of Peasant's Struggle
    April 2012
    La Via Campesina
    Small scale farmers and their allies are celebrating the International Day of Peasant's Struggle on April 17 2012, organising more than 250 actions all over the globe.

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    Call for papers: Landgrabbing II
    March 2012

    LDPI is organizing a second workshop on ‘Global Land Grabbing’ in October 2012 in New York. Among the keynote speakers is new Director-General of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization José Graziano da Silva. You are invited to send in papers that offer rigorous and innovative analysis.

    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.

    Eric Holt-Giménez: What's wrong with the industrial food system and the challenges facing food justice movements
    January 2012
    Eric Holt-Giménez

    In the industrial or corporate food regime, hunger is a staple commodity. Agrarian and food justice movements have come a long way in building an alternative system, but there are still many challenges.

    Miguel Altieri: On agroecology, and why it is the solution to hunger and food security
    January 2012
    Miguel Altieri

    Today, a billion people live in hunger. Can we feed the world and achieve economic development while conserving ecosystems and improving the livelihoods of peasants and the rural poor?

    Olivier de Schutter: What is agroecological farming? And why should it be upscaled?
    January 2012
    Olivier de Schutter

    The food crisis and the environmental crisis are two sides of one coin, so any solution to hunger and food security must also be sustainable and contribute to ecological integrity.

     

    Globalising Hunger
    December 2011
    Thomas Fritz

    The publication analyses the impacts of the scramble for the cheapest raw materials, the exports of cereals, dairy and poultry products, as well as the effects of the growing demand for animal feed, by far the most important agricultural commodity imported into the European Union.

    Global Land Grabbing and Trajectories of Agrarian Change: A Preliminary Analysis
    December 2011
    Jennifer Franco
    Jun Borras

    The politics of change in land use and in property relations linked to cases of land grabbing are not well understood, and yet are crucial to a deeper understanding of the phenomenon; this paper explores these topics, providing a preliminary analysis.

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