May 2008
The global rise in food prices is not only a consequence of using food crops to produce biofuels, but of the "free trade" policies promoted by international financial institutions. Now peasant organisations are leading the opposition to a capitalist industrial agriculture.
May 2008
Vía Campesina’s ‘Global Campaign for Agrarian Reform’ has made a significant impact (inter)nationally in reshaping the terms of the land reform debates, but its impact on other land policy dynamics has been marginal.
May 2008
Saturnino M. Borras, Marc Edelman and Cristóbal Kay
This essay outlines the origins, past successes and failures, and current and future challenges of the transnational agrarian movements.
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February 2008
With two-thirds of the world’s poor rural poor, rural democratisation is clearly relevant and urgent, but at the same time an especially difficult--and underestimated--challenge. If democracy is to be organically rooted in any society, the struggle to “get there” must systematically be opened up to integrate rural poor citizens system-wide, taking stock of their aspirations and, more importantly, their existing efforts to gain control of decision-making affecting their lives.
November 2007
Saturnino M. Borras Jr, Danilo Carranza, Jennifer C. Franco
November 2007
Edward Lahiff, Saturnino M. Borras Jr, Cristóbal Kay
October 2007
Isabella Kenfield & Roger Burbach
September 2007
Highly original analysis of the Philippine land reform experience
