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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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    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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  • Land, conflict and the challenge of pro-poor peace-building

    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'.

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  • Social and environmental impacts of sugarcane production in Brazil

    Invitation to public forum organized by Transnational Institute and Milieudefensie:

    Social and environmental impacts of sugarcane production in Brazil “A monopoly in Ethanol Production in Brazil: The Cosan-Shell merger" with Maria Luisa Mendonca

    14.00-16.30 at the TNI office

    De wittenstraat 25, Amsterdam

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  • The perilous dependence on cheap food imports for food security

    The free market approach to food security has depended too heavily on an unsustainable system of cheap food imports and high fossil-fuel consumption. It's time to counter this by supporting environmentally efficient small farms, and increasing investment in agro-ecological research.

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    Globalising Hunger

    While the EU's Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) persists with its central focus of fostering competitiveness and exports of European agribusiness, it will continue to undermine small-scale farming and create greater food insecurity in the global South.

     

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

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. 

Protect people's lands, water and forests
October 2011

 CSOs remind all governments of their immense responsibilities in reaching an agreement on one of the most pressing issues of our time.

Shining and starving
Praful Bidwai
 August 2011

Under neoliberalism, income and regional disparities have got bloated to a point where the country's rich and the poor live in two separate worlds.

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