Agrarian Justice works on

4 July 2009

The main issues that the Agrarian Justice team works on at the moment

The ‘agrarian justice’ cluster brings together research and analysis on political struggles in rural areas around access, control and ownership of resources and land, as well as on international agrarian movements struggling against dispossession and working to construct alternatives. They carry out evidence-based policy studies, field research, and advocacy campaigns; coordinate local-national initiatives across regions; and collaborate with various other networks working on common themes. They publish relevant materials that can be used by social movement and NGO advocates in their campaigns and lobby work on these issues.

The political economy of agrofuels

Agrofuels

Global land and water grabbing

Alternatives, including food sovereignty and land sovereignty

Social movements and rural democratisation.

Recent publications from Agrarian Justice

A Landmark Victory for Justice: Biowatch’s Battle with the South African State and Monsanto Published by Biowatch South Africa, this is a book about access to information, the right to know, and action in the public’s interest – a must-read for anyone campaigning for environmental or social justice.	The right to say no As European Union (EU) member states consider the implications of environmentally risky shale gas development (fracking), negotiations are underway for a controversial EU-Canada Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) which would grant investors the right to challenge governments’ decision to ban and regulate fracking.
Land concentration, land grabbing and people’s struggles in Europe Land grabbing is widely assumed to be happening only in the global South, but an in-depth analysis by a team of researchers shows that land grabbing is also expanding into Europe.	Sons and Daughters of the Earth In the face of violent dispossession and incorporation into an exploitative labor regime, indigenous peasant families in northern Guatemala are struggling to access land and defend their resources as the basis of their collective identity.