Agrarian Justice

The ‘agrarian justice’ cluster in TNI brings together research and analysis on various pressing issues directly linked to the rural world, such as the impact of agrofuels, overseas aid and land policies, global land grabbing, food sovereignty, social movements and rural democratisation.
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Why peace and land security is key to Burma's democratic future

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.

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Farmers demand the World Bank and Wall Street stop grabbing their lands

The World Bank’s policies for land privatisation and concentration, have paved the way for corporations from Wall Street to Singapore to take upwards of 80 million hectares of land from rural communities across the world in the past few years, they say in a collective statement released today at the opening of the World Bank’s Conference on Land and Poverty in Washington DC.

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Voluntary Guidelines on the Tenure of Land Fisheries and Forests

These Guidelines, when understood as rights to land, fisheries and forests, are another tool in the ongoing struggle to eradicate hunger from the world.

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The Global Water Grab: A Primer

Water grabbing refers to situations where powerful actors take control of valuable water resources for their own benefit, depriving local communities whose livelihoods often depend on these resources and ecosystems.

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Land grabbing in Latin America and the Caribbean in broader international perspectives

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.

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Members of Agrarian Justice

Jun Borras	Jennifer Franco
Lucia Goldfarb	Susan George
Walden Bello

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Mr. Walden Bello, Member of Philippine Parliament, denied entry to Belgium

May 2012

A statement regarding the treatment of Walden Bello upon arriving at Zaventem airport.

17 April: International Day of Peasant's Struggle

La Via Campesina April 2012

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.

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.

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

Eric Holt-Giménez January 2012

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

Miguel Altieri January 2012

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?

Olivier de Schutter January 2012

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.

Global Land Grabbing and Trajectories of Agrarian Change: A Preliminary Analysis

Jennifer Franco

Jun Borras

December 2011

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.

Conference Declaration: Stop Land-Grabbing Now!

November 2011

We, women and men peasants, pastoralists, indigenous peoples and their allies, who gathered together in Nyeleni from 17-19 November 2011, have come from across the world for the first time to share with each other our experiences and struggles against land-grabbing.

Social and environmental impacts of sugarcane production in Brazil

Carlos Vinicius Xavier, Fábio T. Pitta and Maria Luisa Mendonça November 2011

In this publication, data and recent analyses will be presented on the expansion of sugar cane monoculture for ethanol production in Brazil, and in particular on the monopolisation in the sector due to mergers and the takeover of production plants by foreign companies

Audio: Farmers speak out to defend land sovereignty

Radio Mundo Real October 2011

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.