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[Event] Forum and Book Launch of "Transitions"
Wednesday, May 11, 2011 - 10:19
Focus-Philippines launches its newest publication Transitions/Yearbook 2011 through a forum, One Year after P-Noy’s Election: Where/What are we Transitioning to? Invited speakers: Prof. Roland Simbulan; Dean Rene Ofreneo; Sec. Dinky Soliman (tbc); Ka Bobby Tañada (tbc); peasant leader Corazon Peña; labor leaders Wilson Fortaleza/Yuen AbanaFocus offers a one- time huge discount on the first sale of Transitions — P250 only per copy! Regular price after launch is P350.
Alternative Regionalisms, Challenging Capitalist Agriculture, Climate Justice, Decommodification and Agrarian Reform, Essential Goods and Services, Peoples’ Food Sovereignity, Philippines, Project on Sustainable Cities, Critical Discourse on Alternatives, Deglobalisation, Finance, Trade, Peace & Democracy, Reclaiming the Commons
[Press Release] There can be no justifications for land grabbing!” social movements and CSOs tell World Bank, UN agencies and governments
Monday, April 18, 2011 - 18:57
17 April 2011Today, on the International Day of Peasant Struggles, prominent farmers, pastoralists, fisherfolk, human rights and research organisations have sharply criticised the World Bank, three UN agencies and governments for promoting agricultural investments that are resulting in land grabbing on a massive scale. From 18-20 April, investors, government officials and staff of international agencies will gather in Washington DC for the Annual World Bank Conference on Land and Poverty to discuss how to...
[Statement] It's Time to Outlaw Land Grabbing, Not to Make It "Responsible"!
Monday, April 18, 2011 - 18:38
Français|EspañolOn 18-20 April 2011, a gathering of some 200 farmland investors, government officials and international civil servants will meet at the World Bank headquarters in Washington DC to discuss how to operationalise "responsible" large-scale land acquisitions. Over in Rome, the Committee on World Food Security, housed at the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation, is about to start a process of consultation on principles to regulate such deals. Social movements and civil society...
[Press Release] Landmark conference on land grabbing: large-scale agricultural investments do undermine food security
Thursday, April 14, 2011 - 17:47
Participants at the International Conference on Global Land Grabbing overwhelmingly found that land grabbing is occurring at a scale and speed as never before, and resulting in widespread displacement and dispossession of rural and urban communities, especially smallhold agricultural producers. Held on 6-8 April at the Institute of Development Studies (IDS), University of Sussex, the Conference was organised by the Land Deals Politics Initiative (LDPI) in collaboration with the Journal of...
Occasional Paper 9: Tale of Two Economies
Sunday, February 27, 2011 - 10:29
For generations, the peoples of the Lao Peoples' Democratic Republic (Lao PDR) have practised locally-developed, diverse forms of agriculture and fisheries. The majority of the country's population depends directly on small-holder agriculture and the natural environment for their livelihoods. Over the past decades, the country's decision-makers have adopted a development strategy aimed at rapid expansion of the monetary economy through exploitation of the country's natural wealth—land, forests, rivers,...
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