Environmental Justice

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.

Where The Air Is Rarefied

April 2012

Darryl D'Monte

The most comprehensive analysis of climate change, which tackles India’s (mostly flawed) policies.

Farmers demand the World Bank and Wall Street stop grabbing their lands

April 2012

The World Bank’s policies for land privatisation and concentration, have paved the way for corporations from Wall Street to Singapore to take upwards of 80 million hectares of land from rural communities across the world in the past few years, they say in a collective statement released today at...

Voluntary Guidelines on the Tenure of Land Fisheries and Forests

March 2012

These Guidelines, when understood as rights to land, fisheries and forests, are another tool in the ongoing struggle to eradicate hunger from the world.

The Global Water Grab: A Primer

March 2012

Jennifer Franco

Sylvia Kay

Water grabbing refers to situations where powerful actors take control of valuable water resources for their own benefit, depriving local communities whose livelihoods often depend on these resources and ecosystems.

Remunicipalisation

March 2012

Olivier Hoedeman

Satoko Kishimoto

Martin Pigeon, David A. McDonald

After decades of failed water privatisation, cities like Paris are starting to bring water back into public hands. Download this free 'must-read' book for policy makers and activists looking to democratise water services.

Renewables option

March 2012

Praful Bidwai

Instead of imposing nuclear power upon unwilling people, India should join the renewables revolution for handsome gains.

“The Japanese population won’t accept it any longer”

March 2012

On March 11, it’s exactly one year ago that North-Eastern Japan was hit by a major earthquake and a tsunami with giant 15 meter waves. One of the devastating consequences was a meltdown in the Fukushima nuclear power plant – the biggest nuclear disaster in 25 years. How is the situation today?...

Land, Seas and Territories to feed our Dignity and the Peoples of the World

March 2012

On 5 and 9 March press conferences will be held during the last round of the international negotiations on land at FAO: The mobilization of social organizations and Italian NGOs.

Is the Green Economy a new Washington Consensus?

February 2012

Working Group on Green Economy, WSF

The current environmental and climate crisis is not simply a market failure because nature is not simply a form of capital. Putting a price on nature under the label of the "Green Economy" is an attempt to expand the reach of finance capital and privatise our planet.