A global wave of land and water grabs is concentrating farmland and other food producing resources in the hands of a few, with serious consequences for both rural and urban communities. For an introduction to this issue, download our Food First Issue Primer on Land & Resources
On September 20th, California Governor Jerry Brown passed historic legislation regulating hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking”, prompting mixed reactions from both…
This article is an excerpt from Food First’s Land & Sovereignty Series. In the last two decades, the best agricultural…
Land & Sovereignty Brief No. 3 Foreigners now control more than one million hectares of prime agricultural and ranching lands in Bolivia, primarily in the eastern lowlands.
Since the 2008 food crisis, investors have increasingly targeted African lands and resources for development, often to the detriment of…
Occupy the Farm (OTF), an assembly of activists from the San Francisco Bay Area, is raising its voice against unsustainable development,…
California is a land of contradictions. It is known as the breadbasket of the nation, but farmland is disappearing with alarming speed.
Land & Sovereignty Brief No. 2 Understanding the context of global land grabs.
On May 10th, the Guatemalan Court of Justice convicted the ex-dictator General Ríos Montt to 80 years in prison for…
Land & Sovereignty Brief No. 1 In the last ten years, the expansion of sugarcane and oil palm has increasingly encroached on the lands of Maya Q'eqchi' people.
Two more peasants were assassinated by paramilitary units last week in Honduras. This brings the murder of subsistence farmers and indigenous leaders…
In 2009, Honduran elites financed a coup to grab land and power. The peasants of the Aguán Valley are fighting to grab it back.
Researchers are uncovering patterns of land grabbing that are even deeper, wider and potentially more devastating for rural local communities than is generally acknowledged.
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