Farmers

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[16/05/2013] LANDac short-term research project report: Dispossessing Tribals and the Poor from Lands
This study has been taken up in the context of the large scale acquisition of agricultural lands for Special Economic Zones (SEZs) and other projects in India in recent years. There has been...
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[15/05/2013] Slow Food and FAO join forces
FAO and the international Slow Food organization agreed today to develop joint actions to improve the livelihoods of smallholders and others working in rural areas.  Under a three-year...
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[02/05/2013] Special Rapporteur urges phase-out of EU biofuel incentives
United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food On 16 April the Special Rapporteur wrote to the European Commission, the Irish Presidency of the European Union, the permanent...
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[29/04/2013] Land concentration, land grabbing and people’s struggles in Europe
European Coordination Via Campesina and Hands Off the Land Network The report, involving 25 authors from 11 countries, reveals the hidden scandal of how a few big private business entities have...
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[26/04/2013] “World Bank-led privatization of Burundian coffee industry must not repeat errors of the past” - UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food
GENEVA – Two United Nations experts on the right to food and foreign debt raised the alarm over the World Bank-led privatization of the Burundian coffee sector, and called for suspension of the...
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[25/04/2013] ICARRD Resources
The International Conference on Agrarian Reform and Rural Development took place in Porto Alegre, Brazil in 2006. A summary Final Report on the conference can be found Here. Attached are the...
Events
[23/04/2013] 2013 Utrecht Summerschool Land Governance for Development
8 - 19 July 2013Utrecht University, the Netherlands In July 2013 LANDac organises the Utrecht Summerschool Land Governance for Development for the fourth time. The two-week intensive course will...
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[22/04/2013] Land & Sovereignty Brief No. 1 - "Sons and Daughters of the Earth": Indigenous communities and land grabs in Guatemala
Food First & Transnational Institute In the face of violent dispossession and incorporation into an exploitative labor regime, indigenous peasant families in northern Guatemala are...
Events
[17/04/2013] La Via Campesina celebrates International Day of Peasants' Struggle
Today, April 17th, the international peasant movement La Via Campesina is celebrating its International Day of Peasants’ Struggle with events and actions worldwide. To view organization’s...
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[11/04/2013] Promises, Power, and Poverty: Corporate land deals and rural women in Africa
Oxfam International The rush to invest in farmland in Africa is having an immediate impact on women’s land-use options, on their livelihoods, on food availability and the cost of living, and,...
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