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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.

Meeting the challenge of feeding the world and cooling the Earth
July 2011
Jun Borras

Two papers analysing the recent experience of Latin America, and Cuba in particular, support arguments that a shift from industrial-large scale farming to small-scale farming can bring environmental, economic and political benefits.

Colombia: A successful case for the war on drugs?
January 2011
Ricardo Vargas

Is Colombia's narcotrafficking situation comparable to that of Mexico, including the strategies needed to combat it?

Military Force Isn't the Answer in Mexico's Drug Wars
November 2010
Manuel Perez Rocha

Mexicans don't want the current ill conceived war on drugs. It is fought with disregard to the high costs in terms of human rights and lives and mistakenly portrayed as 'courageous'.

How about Saving all the Miners
November 2010
Manuel Perez Rocha

The unprecedented global media attention drawn by the Chilean mining story needs to look at the bigger picture - the criminal practices of the global mining industry.

Pachakuti: Indigenous perspectives, degrowth and ecosocialism
October 2010
Bob Thomson

We have to talk to, learn from and support the indigenous movements which have inserted ecosocialist and degrowth like concepts into the formal constitutions, as in the states of Bolivia and Ecuadorian.

Mining for El Salvador's Gold... In Washington
August 2010
Manuel Perez Rocha

An international tribunal gives the green light to a lawsuit brought by two companies attempting to overcome strong public and government resistance to their destructive gold mining.

The Human Toll of the Drug War: A Pending Issue
August 2010
Kristel Mucino

Driven by poverty to make ends meet many small drug sellers' are targeted by harsh drug policies, yet their persecution does nothing to tackle the root cause of drug-related crime or addiction.

Misguided U.S. economic policies drive many Mexicans to come here
August 2010
Manuel Perez Rocha

Most immigrants would prefer to stay at home with their families and live their own culture, eat their own food, and listen to their own music.

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