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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.

    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.

    Land grabbing in Latin America and the Caribbean in broader international perspectives
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    December 2011
    Jun Borras
    Jennifer Franco
     Cristobal Kay, Max Spoor

    A critical re-assessment of a UN FAO study on land grabbing finds that a too-narrow definition has obscured evidence of land grabbing on a wider geographical scale than previously thought; this research includes new evidence of cases in Latin America and the Caribbean.

    Land, conflict and the challenge of pro-poor peace-building
    October 2011
    Jennifer Franco
    Jun Borras

    There is a lot of contention over approaches to land reform policy, in terms of how to involve the state, the market and communities; but what matters most for a socio-economically and politically sustainable solution, is that the policy is genuinely 'pro-poor'.

    Audio: Farmers speak out to defend land sovereignty
    October 2011
    Radio Mundo Real

    Social movement representatives are in Rome this week for the final UN negotiations to adopt voluntary guidelines that would regulate the use and possession of land and other natural resources.

    The Land Deal Politics Initiative
    October 2011

    The Land Deal Politics Initiative calls for applications to their small grant competition. Grants are available to undertake original field research, carry out follow up fieldwork on an ongoing related initiative, or write up a paper based on research. 

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