Farm land bordering industrial area / Photo credit John Hogg/World Bank/CC BY-NC-ND 2.0... Read more

El pasado 10 de diciembre de 2015, la Convergencia Mundial de las Luchas por la Tierra y el Agua organizó en París, Francia, la asamblea “Enfriemos el planeta: Comunidades más expuestas al frente de la lucha”, en el marco de las actividades paralelas a la Cumbre del Clima de la ONU que tiene lugar en la misma ciudad. En la asamblea participaron representantes de organizaciones ... Read more

The Convergence and its members underline that this is not about alternatives; it is about real solutions. These real solutions to the climate crisis will not come from the current industrial model, but are anchored in local community practices – and are being developed and lived by communities every day the world over. The video features social movement representatives and allies talk... Read more

A major new study published this week asks what has happened in the ten years since large areas of Zimbabwe's commercial farm land were invaded by land-hungry villagers - and it challenges the view that land reform was an unmitigated disaster.... Read more

Brazil’s Movement of Small Farmers knows what’s good for their land is also good for the people.... Read more

Walden Bello examines the historically problematic relationship between China's Communist Party and the Chinese peasantry, and asks whether the party can afford to ignore the growing discontent and poverty in the rural areas.... Read more

This text proposes to be an anguished reading of the conditions that we face today on the planet Earth, both from the point of view of the survival of life and the possibilities of building democratic, egalitarian, culturally plural and diverse societies, societies that can live in peace and celebrate life rather than war, destruction and death.... Read more