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    Video Documentary: Global Crises, Regional Solutions
    May 2012
    TNI

    Activists from Asia, Africa, Latin America and Europe argue that regional integration is the only viable response to the convergence of economic, climate, food and energy crises.

    Call for papers: Landgrabbing II
    March 2012

    LDPI is organizing a second workshop on ‘Global Land Grabbing’ in October 2012 in New York. Among the keynote speakers is new Director-General of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization José Graziano da Silva. You are invited to send in papers that offer rigorous and innovative analysis.

    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. 

    Meeting the challenge of feeding the world and cooling the Earth
    July 2011
    Jun Borras

    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.

    The politics of achieving the Right to Water
    April 2011
    Susan George
    Water Justice
     Mthandeki Nhlapo, Peter Waldorff

    Privatisation offers nothing to the 43 percent of Africans in cities who have no access to water. On World Water Day 2011, experts met in Cape Town to share experiences of successful public-public partnerships for equal public access.

    Voices from the World Social Forum
    February 2011
    Susan George

    Although initiated as a counter-forum to Davos, the World Social Forum has evolved beyond it now, focusing on the root causes of problems facing humanity and developing real alternatives as solutions.

    Farmer by Farmer, an Organic Transition
    February 2011
    John Cavanagh
     Robin Broad

    After decades of chemicals, farmers in the Philippines are seeing the benefits of organic farming. But what convinced them to make the switch in the first place?

    It's time for food sovereignty!
    January 2011
    Jun Borras

    The Journal of Peasants Studies has made available a selection of research papers to download free: covering food sovereignty, the politics of land, agrofuels and justice movements.

    Video: Re-orienting the Left: India
    January 2011
    Achin Vanaik
     Prof. Michael Lowy, Emeritus Research Director in Social Sciences at the National Centre of Scientific Research (CNRS), Paris, France

    No single political movement in India should assume that it represents the nucleus of a radical left alternative, but be ready to build principled alliances.

    Activists from across Asia explain how the EU’s free trade agenda affects them: (3) Labour rights in the Philippines
    November 2010

    In the third of a series of interviews with civil society activists from Asia we hear about the damaging impacts of free trade agreements on labour rights in the Philippines.

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