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
In The Journal of Peasant Studies, 39:3-4, 845-872 Land grabbing has gained momentum in Latin America and the Caribbean during the past…
Land grabbing “How firm we stand and plant our feet upon our land determines the strength of our children’s heartbeats.”…
In Journal of Agrarian Change, Vol. 12 No. 1, January 2012, pp. 34–59.
Land grabs—large-scale acquisitions of agricultural, range and forest lands by outside interests—are happening around the world. They are also taking place in US cities.
In Yale Human Rights and Development Law Journal, Vol. 13, 2010, pp. 507-523
This project aims to locate Oakland’s “commons”—land that is owned by public agencies—and assess the potential for urban agriculture on this land.
Forty percent of Ghana’s 22 million citizens still live in poverty despite the fact that the country is the second-largest gold producer in Africa.
Agrofuels are the perfect Trojan Horse, promising not only whole new markets for biotech products, but the entrenchment of GM crops throughout the world.
Behind the claims of energy independence and green energy, the agrofuels boom is violently transforming food and fuel systems in the Americas and elsewhere.
While not as prolific as Indonesia and Malaysia, Colombia is the 4th largest palm oil producer in the world and the largest in Latin America.
Without a structural analysis of the World Bank’s agenda, it is difficult to understand the political scope of its land reform programs.
The question is not whether biofuels have a place in our future, but whether or not we allow a handful of global corporations to impoverish the planet.
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