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Food Wars
Walden Bello
 Mara Baviera

In 2006–08, food shortages became a global reality, with the prices of commodities spiraling beyond the reach of vast numbers of people. International agencies were caught flatfooted, with the World Food Program warning that its rapidly diminishing food stocks might not be able to deal...

Land, Rural Social Movements and Democratisation in Indonesia
TNI
 Dianto Bachriadi

Although support from urban-based students and activists was important, the rural protest in Indonesia during President Suharto's regime was built on continued protest and organisation around land issues.

The global food price crisis - a critique of orthodox perspectives
TNI
 Walden Bello
Capitalist industrial agriculture, with its wrenching destabilisation and transformation of land, nature, and social relations is responsible for today's food crises, argues Walden Bello.
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CARPER: latest chapter in agri reform battle
Walden Bello

whether Philippines' Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Law becomes truly a vehicle for advancing reform will depend on whether pro-reform forces can create, at the local level, the critical political mass involving farmers, progressive elements at the Department of Agrarian Reform, the Church, and...

Pro-Poor Policy Reforms and Governance in State/Public Lands:
Jennifer Franco

This paper attempts to specify the key criteria of a ‘pro-poor land policy’ and ‘truly democratic land governance’ concerning state/public lands, using the lessons from activist databases, including that of the international human rights organization Foodfirst Information and Action Network (...

From rural livelihoods to agricultural growth
TNI
 Lies Craeynest

This paper examines the policies and practices on land of the Department for International Development (DFID) of the United Kingdom. After a market-led approach to land distribution in the 1980s, DFID made some changes towards a rights-based land policy, but this has since regressed.

È possibile sradicare la povertà
Susan George
 Intervista con Susan George. Di Giuliano Battiston

Non si può uscire dalla crisi economica senza uscire da quella ambientale, sostiene Susan George, e propone «keynesianesimo verde» come via d'uscita.

Re-examining the "agrarian movement-NGO" solidarity relations discourse
TNI
 Saturnino M. Borras Jr
The demands of transnational agrarian movements for their own autonomous voice and representation have transformed their relationship with NGOs, and clarified the kind of solidarity that is acceptable to both, writes Jun Borras.

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EU Land Policy and the Right to Food
TNI
 Pascal Bergeret

In 2004 the EU Commission published EU Land Policy Guide-lines: Guidelines for Support to Land Policy Design and Land Policy Reform Process in Developing Countries. It proposes that steps be taken to allow the legal recognition of customary rights and to strengthen the institutional capacities...

Rural social movements and their historical contribution for building democracy in Brazil
TNI
 Sérgio Sauer

Brazil has not experienced any sort of major agrarian reform since then, but dozens of rural movements have been organised and hundreds of thousands of landless peasants have acquired the right of access to land (especially through settlement projects) as a result of these social movements’...

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