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Fighting the New Colonial Resource Grab
Worsening climate change and the emergence of new economic powers is leading to a renewed scramble for resources, with negative consequences for many impoverished communities. Food wars, Water grabbing, Landgrabs and Agrofuels; is the world going to face The Perfect Storm? How can we avoid this and what are the alternatives?
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The Global Resource Grab
In June 2011, TNI brought together its Fellows and other activists and engaged academics to discuss critical global issues including the Arab Spring, the global resource grab and the 'Green economy.'
Watch a collection of interviews by The Broker Online
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The New Scramble in Africa
Yao Graham
Africa is subject to a new scramble for mineral resources by former colonial powers and new emerging economies, with few benefits for the majority of Africans, says Yao Graham of the Third World Network.
Water grabbing
Maryann Manahan
With hedge funds making bids for melting glaciers, there is a danger at a time of multiple crises of a renewed push for commodification of water that will affect those who can't pay.
Landgrabs, Conflict and the Agro-industrial Complex
Jun Borras
The latest research on landgrabbing exposes the myth of 'reserve agricultural land' and highlights the new economic players behind the latest wave of dispossession across the South.
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Featured articles
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The Politics of Agrofuels and Mega-land and Water deals
David Fig, Saturnino M. Borras Jr., Sofĩa Monsalve Suárez
The Procana Bioethanol project in Mozambique is a clear example of how agrofuel investments contribute to rather than mitigate climate change, and are often accompanied by dispossession.
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The Coming Global Food Fight
John Cavanagh and Robin Broad
As anger mounts in response to rising global food prices, small-scale farms rooted in local markets are showing how to avert international disaster.
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The Agrarian Roots of Violent Conflict
Saturnino M. Borras Jr., Sietze Vellema, Fransisco Lara
Conflict in Southern Philippines is caused as much by agrarian economics and politics as ethnic and religious differences.
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Meeting the Challenge of Feeding the World and Cooling the Earth
Two papers analysing the recent experience of Latin America, and Cuba in particular, support arguments that a shift from industrial-large scale farming to small-scale farming can bring environmental, economic and political benefits.
Alternative Development or Business as Usual?
The Chinese Government's opium substitution programmes in northern Burma and Laos have prompted a booming rubber industry, but the beneficiaries have been a small few with many others losing their lands as a result. See also: From the Golden Triangle to the Rubber Belt?
Read more about Landgrabbing and Food and agriculture on our website.
Books & Reports
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En español
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La lucha contra el nuevo acaparamiento colonial de los recoursos
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La política del acaparamiento mundial de tierras
Jennifer Franco, Jun Borras
El fenómeno del acaparamiento mundial de tierras por parte de las transnacionales ha captado la atención de los medios, pero puede que el principal peligro esté en la respuesta de instituciones como el Banco Mundial, cuyas supuestas medidas de mejora consolidan la desposesión en lugar de impedirla.
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Agrocombustibles y derecho a la alimentación en América Latina
Sofía Monsalve et al.
Los posibles efectos de los agrocombustibles sobre el disfrute del derecho humano a la alimentación adecuada de los grupos sociales más oprimidos y marginados deben ser considerados antes de aplicar políticas y programas de fomento de su producción.
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Agrocombustibles
Tamra Gilbertson
Este informe expone una serie de preocupaciones de vital importancia frente a la actual campaña para desarrollar agrocombustibles en el sector del transporte, sobre todo en los países industrializados.
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La lucha cultural contra el cambio climático
François Houtart
El problema del cambio climático es, ante todo, un problema cultural
basado en la forma en que vivimos en el planeta y con la naturaleza.
Necesitaremos nuevos paradigmas culturales para poder afrontar la
crisis climática.
Destruyendo la agricultura africana
Walden Bello
La producción de biocombustibles es ciertamente uno de los culpables de la actual crisis global de alimentos.
Los límites del planeta y la crisis civilizatoria
Edgardo Lander
Existe un amplio consenso en torno al hecho de que estamos viviendo una crisis global; una crisis que es simultáneamente medioambiental, energética, alimentaria, migratoria, bélica, y económica. No se trataría así, de un nuevo ciclo recesivo del capitalismo, sino de un "quiebre histórico".
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