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Green Grabbing: a new appropriation of nature?
April 2012

The Journal of Peasant Studies (JPS) published a huge special issue on 'green grabbing - land grabbing in the name of the environment'. Find out how to get your own free copy.

17 April: International Day of Peasant's Struggle
April 2012
La Via Campesina
Small scale farmers and their allies are celebrating the International Day of Peasant's Struggle on April 17 2012, organising more than 250 actions all over the globe.

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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 War on Colombia’s Poor
January 2012
Ross Eventon

The EU's proposed free trade agreement with Colombia will worsen the already serious human rights violations in the country, as its drive to access to cheap raw materials for European corporations means forcing local people off their land.

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.

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'.

Audio: Farmers speak out to defend land sovereignty
October 2011
Radio Mundo Real

Social movement representatives are in Rome this week for the final UN negotiations to adopt voluntary guidelines that would regulate the use and possession of land and other natural resources.

The perilous dependence on cheap food imports for food security
October 2011
Tony Weis

The free market approach to food security has depended too heavily on an unsustainable system of cheap food imports and high fossil-fuel consumption. It's time to counter this by supporting environmentally efficient small farms, and increasing investment in agro-ecological research.

Is water the hidden agenda of land acquisition in Africa?
October 2011
P. Woodhouse and A. S. Ganho

Implicit in the global land grab is the potential for a major water grab. A study of sub-Saharan Africa raises concerns that  large-scale commercial agriculture could cause unforeseen but disproportionate impacts on access to water by small-scale producers.

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