Food & Agriculture

How to manufacture a global food crisis: lessons from the World Bank, IMF, and WTO

May 2008
The global rise in food prices is not only a consequence of using food crops to produce biofuels, but of the "free trade" policies promoted by international financial institutions. Now peasant organisations are leading the opposition to a capitalist industrial agriculture.

La Vía Campesina and its Global Campaign for Agrarian Reform

May 2008
Vía Campesina’s ‘Global Campaign for Agrarian Reform’ has made a significant impact (inter)nationally in reshaping the terms of the land reform debates, but its impact on other land policy dynamics has been marginal.

 

Transnational Agrarian Movements:

May 2008
TNI
Saturnino M. Borras, Marc Edelman and Cristóbal Kay
This essay outlines the origins, past successes and failures, and current and future challenges of the transnational agrarian movements.

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Rural Democratisation: (Re)Framing rural poor political action

February 2008

With two-thirds of the world’s poor rural poor, rural democratisation is clearly relevant and urgent, but at the same time an especially difficult--and underestimated--challenge. If democracy is to be organically rooted in any society, the struggle to “get there” must systematically be opened up to integrate rural poor citizens system-wide, taking stock of their aspirations and, more importantly, their existing efforts to gain control of decision-making affecting their lives.

Anti-poverty or Anti-poor?

November 2007
TNI
Saturnino M. Borras Jr, Danilo Carranza, Jennifer C. Franco

Market-led agrarian reform

November 2007
TNI
Edward Lahiff, Saturnino M. Borras Jr, Cristóbal Kay

Corporate murder in Brazil

October 2007
Isabella Kenfield & Roger Burbach

Pro - Poor Land Reform: A Critique

September 2007

Highly original analysis of the Philippine land reform experience