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In-depth briefings, reports, papers and backgrounders by TNI staff, fellows and associates.

  • State of Corporate Power 2012
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    January 2012
    TNI

    Who are the global 1%? What companies do they run? How do they escape accountability? Check out TNI's powerful infographic displays that expose the social and environmental costs of global corporate power.

  • Globalising Hunger
    December 2011
    Thomas Fritz

    The publication analyses the impacts of the scramble for the cheapest raw materials, the exports of cereals, dairy and poultry products, as well as the effects of the growing demand for animal feed, by far the most important agricultural commodity imported into the European Union.

  • Global Land Grabbing and Trajectories of Agrarian Change: A Preliminary Analysis
    December 2011
    Jennifer Franco
    Jun Borras

    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.

  • Land grabbing in Latin America and the Caribbean in broader international perspectives
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    December 2011
    Jun Borras
    Jennifer Franco
     Cristobal Kay, Max Spoor

    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.

  • The Green Economy: the Wolf in Sheep’s clothing
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    December 2011
    Edgardo Lander

    The fundamental flaw at the heart of UNEP's report "Towards a Green Economy" is its failure to analyse the extraordinarily unequal power relations that exist in today’s world, and the interests at play in the operation of this global economic system.

  • Social and environmental impacts of sugarcane production in Brazil
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    November 2011
    Carlos Vinicius Xavier, Fábio T. Pitta and Maria Luisa Mendonça

    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

  • Civil Society Gaining Ground
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    November 2011
    Tom Kramer

    Local organisations have adopted different strategies towards the authoritarian government in Burma. Focussing on the dynamics of civil society Tom Kramer looks into the possibilities and risks of growing international interest in engagement with these groups.

  • Legalised Profiteering?
    November 2011
    Nick Buxton

    The secretive and lucrative world of international investment arbitration has enriched a small coterie of multi-billion dollar international firms, which actively promote and even help finance litigations against states and have fought fiercely to prevent changes to an unjust international investment regime.

  • The EU Crisis Pocket Guide
    October 2011
    TNI

    A useful pocket guide on how a crisis made in Wall Street was made worse by EU policies, how it has enriched the 1% to the detriment of the 99%, and outlining some possible solutions that prioritise people and the environment above corporate profits.

  • Land, conflict and the challenge of pro-poor peace-building
    October 2011
    Jennifer Franco
    Jun Borras

    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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