Decommodification and Agrarian Reform
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Conference Declaration: Stop Land-Grabbing Now!
Wednesday, November 23, 2011 - 23:27
We, women and men peasants, pastoralists, indigenous peoples and their allies, who gathered together in Nyeleni from 17-19 November 2011, have come from across the world for the first time to share with each other our experiences and struggles against land-grabbing. One year ago we supported the Kolongo Appeal from peasant organizations in Mali, who have taken the lead in organising local resistance to the take-over of peasants' lands in Africa. Now we came to Nyeleni in response to the Dakar...
Farmers mobilise to find solutions against land grabbing
Saturday, November 19, 2011 - 15:29
Sélingué, Mali, 17 November 2011 – Today, more than 250 participants, mainly representatives of farmers’ organisations, from thirty different countries gathered in Nyéléni Village, a centre for agro-ecology training built in a rural area near Sélingué, in Mali, to participate into the first International farmers’ conference to stop land grabbing. The Nyéléni village is a symbolic place, where the first international conference on Food Sovereignty was held in 2007. For three days, from the 17 to...
Marching for Land, Dignity and the proceso de cambio
Sunday, September 18, 2011 - 21:57
Kirsten Francescone*August 15 2011 marked yet another historic event in Bolivia’s long and rich history of struggle. At nine in the morning, after a support rally from their allies, the Confederacion de Pueblos Indígenas de Bolivia (CIDOB- national indigenous organization) along with their bases, the people of the Territorio Indígena Parque Nacional Isiboro Sécure (TIPNIS as they are referred to in Bolivia) opted to re-take up the historic march for Tierra y Dignidad (Land and Dignity). The march in the...
Responsible Agricultural Investments: Rationalizing Land Grabbing
Sunday, September 18, 2011 - 21:55
Joseph Purugganan*Since January 2010, global institutions like the World Bank, the Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO), the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) have been pushing for Principles for Responsible Agricultural Investment that Respects Rights, Livelihoods and Resources or RAI as a means to address growing concerns over the possible negative impact of huge acquisitions of agricultural lands on people’s rights...
The Deadline Nears: Can Government Implement CARPER?
Friday, September 9, 2011 - 16:09
The “biggest challenge” to finally accomplishing agrarian reform, more than 20 years after the Philippine Constitution articulated that it shall be the main means to realize social justice in the countryside, is “distributing 1.5 million hectares…to 1.1 million beneficiaries” with barely three years left to the current administration to implement CARPER. This is the central message of the study recently released by the non-government, international think tank Focus on the Global South. Through...
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