Agrarian Justice

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.

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