• Land concentration, land grabbing and people’s struggle...

    Land grabbing is widely assumed to be happening only in the global South, but an in-depth analysis by a team of researchers shows that land grabbing is also expanding into Europe.

  • Competing political tendencies in global governance of...

    Three political tendencies have emerged in response to land grabbing that are shaping the global debate and the potential future trajectory of land governance.

  • A ‘Land Sovereignty’ Alternative?

    Dramatic changes around food, climate, energy, and finance in recent years have pushed questions of land use and land control back onto the centre stage of development discourse, at the very moment when the same conditions are spurring an unprecedented rush for land and water across the globe.

  • The right to say no

    As European Union (EU) member states consider the implications of environmentally risky shale gas development (fracking), negotiations are underway for a controversial EU-Canada Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) which would grant investors the right to challenge governments’ decision to ban and regulate fracking.

  • The Global Land Grab

    A concise and indispensable critical guide to the global phenomemon of land grabbing. Find out how the global land grab is justified, what is driving it, why transparency and guidelines won't stop it, and learn about alternatives that could enable people and communities to regain control of their land and territories.

 

The ‘agrarian justice’ cluster brings together research and analysis on political struggles in rural areas around access, control and ownership of resources and land, as well as on international agrarian movements struggling against dispossession and working to construct alternatives. Read more about this project

Articles

40 Classics in The Journal of Peasant Studies

Access 40 classic articles for free as The Journal of Peasant Studies celebrates its 40th Anniversary!

Land grabbing through a food security lens

Gloria Pracucci
Out of the kaleidoscope of different angles through which land grab can be analysed, the one elevating food security – and food sovereignty – as a crucial concern is amongst the most engaging and the less inquired, especially in its intertwining with policy elaboration.

Networking against Fracking

Satoko Kishimoto
Global networking is key to winning battle against fracking, say activists at WSF.
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Publications

A Landmark Victory for Justice: Biowatch’s Battle with the South African State and Monsanto

David Fig
Rachel Wynberg
Published by  Biowatch South Africa, this is a book about access to information, the right to know, and action in the public’s interest – a must-read for anyone campaigning for environmental or social justice.

Protecting carbon to destroy forests

TNI, FDCL, Carbon Trade Watch and IGO
This paper provides historical background and reports of experiences on the ground to show how land and nature enclosures are central to REDD+, and why it therefore cannot be fixed.

Sons and Daughters of the Earth

Food First & TNI, Alberto Alonso-Fradejas
In the face of violent dispossession and incorporation into an exploitative labor regime, indigenous peasant families in northern Guatemala are struggling to access land and defend their resources as the basis of their collective identity.
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Events

April 2013

Land Grabbing: insights from Romania

Attila Szocs, who monitors large scale agricultural land purchases in Romania, and Dan Cismas, a biodynamic farmer and co-president of the EcoRuralis peasant association, tour European capitals and cities to highlight, debate and raise public awareness on the social, environmental and economic impact of large scale land acquisition by both, foreign and national companies.  
March 2013

World Social Forum 2013

Defending and Celebrating People’s ‘Dignity’
December 2012

Fifth ‘Critical Environmental Studies Colloquium’

Daniel Chavez talks about “State‐Owned Enterprises in the Provision of Public Services and in Industrial Policy” at this colloquium on 'green economy'
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News

A hard rain’s a gonna fall…….

22 May 2013
Countries, such as Britain, Poland and South Africa are trying to introduce gas fracking, in the face of considerable popular opposition.

EU-Canada trade agreement threatens fracking bans

8 May 2013
The proposed Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) between the European Union (EU) and Canada would grant energy companies far-reaching rights to challenge bans and regulations of environmentally damaging shale gas development (fracking), a new briefing by Corporate Europe Observatory, The Council of Canadians and the Transnational Institute shows.

L’accord commercial entre l’UE et le Canada menace les interdictions de la fracturation hydraulique

7 May 2013
L’Accord Économique et Commercial Global (AECG) en cours de négociations entre l’Union Européenne (UE) et le Canada accorderait aux compagnies énergétiques des possibilités étendues pour venir défier les régulations et interdictions de développement du gaz de schiste (par la fracturation hydraulique, dommageable pour l’environnement) démontre un nouveau rapport du Corporate Europe Observatory, Conseil des Canadiens et Transnational Institute.  
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