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Publications by Agrarian Justice

  • Why peace and land security is key to Burma's democratic future
    May 2012
    Tom Kramer

    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. 

  • 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.

  • Farmers demand the World Bank and Wall Street stop grabbing their lands
    April 2012

    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.

  • 17 April: International Day of Peasant's Struggle
    April 2012
    La Via Campesina
    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.

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  • Voluntary Guidelines on the Tenure of Land Fisheries and Forests
    March 2012

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

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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. 

  • The perilous dependence on cheap food imports for food security
    October 2011
    Tony Weis

    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.