Publications

The Other Burma

India-Bangladesh border
Report
October 2012

Northeast India's strategic location between India, China and southeast Asia has led to a recent boom in resource extraction and investment by multinational corporations, but the world continues to remain largely silent on the human rights abuses that continue to be perpetrated by the Indian military. 

The Global Land Grab

Primer
October 2012

A concise and indispensable critical guide to the global phenomemon of land grabbing. Find out how the global land grab is justified, what is driving it, why transparency and guidelines won't stop it, and learn about alternatives that could enable people and communities to regain control of their land and territories.

Land Grabbing in Dawei

Dawei Burma
Report
Elizabeth Loewen
October 2012

The Dawei region is a highly populated and prosperous region, significant because of its ecologically-diversity and strategic position along the Andaman coast. Thai interest in the region poses an environmental threat and risks massive expulsion of people.

Fact Sheet: Coca leaf and the UN Drugs Conventions

Primer
October 2012

10 Facts about the Coca leaf and the UN Drugs Conventions

A ‘Land Sovereignty’ Alternative?

Paper
September 2012

Dramatic changes around food, climate, energy, and finance in recent years have pushed questions of land use and land control back onto the centre stage of development discourse, at the very moment when the same conditions are spurring an unprecedented rush for land and water across the globe.

Human Rights in Niassa Province

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Report
September 2012

How do the treeplantations in Niassa province impair the rights of peasant communities? And what are the recommendations to the different actors involved?

The Netherlands and the Global Land and Water Grab

Report
September 2012

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Civil society and decolonisation in South America

Book excerpt
September 2012

An historical overview of Latin American debates and experiences related to democracy, citizenship and civil society and some highlights of current conflicts in Venezuela, Ecuador and Bolivia.

Banacol implicated in paramilitarism and landgrabbing in Colombia

Banacol Case Study cover
Report
Interchurch Justice and Peace Commission
September 2012

Evidence shows that transnational tropical fruit producer Banacol provided support to paramilitary groups and predatory businessmen involved in land-invasions in Colombia.

Secure Peoples' Access to Land

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Paper
Claire Guffens, Florence Kroff
September 2012

What is the potential and what are the challenges to implement the new “Voluntary Guidelines on the responsible governance of tenure of land, fisheries and forests in the context of national food security"?

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