The G8 and Land Grabs in Africa
GRAIN
The G8 countries are implementing a New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition in six African countries that will facilitate the transfer of control over African agriculture from peasants to foreign agribusiness.
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IFPRI 2012 Global Food Policy Report
Hidden impacts: How Europe's resource overconsumption promotes global land conflicts
Friends of the Earth, Europe
Based on newly available data this report sheds lights on Europe’s role as a major user of global land resources.
Europe’s high consumption levels, and insatiable appetite for meat, dairy, textiles and other products that require large areas of land, mean Europe’s 'land footprint' remains one of the largest in the world.
Social and Environmental Impacts of Agricultural Large-Scale Land Acquisitions in Africa
Rights and Resources Initiative
“We who live here own the land” - Customary Land Tenure in Grand Cape Mount, and Community Recommendations for Reform of Liberia’s Land Policy & Law
Communities of Grand Cape Mount, Liberia
March 25th, 2013
Gene Giants Seek "Philanthrogopoly"
Promises, Power, and Poverty: Corporate land deals and rural women in Africa
Oxfam International
Land & Sovereignty Brief No. 1 - "Sons and Daughters of the Earth": Indigenous communities and land grabs in Guatemala
Food First & Transnational Institute
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 resources, presentations, and papers from the conference.
Land concentration, land grabbing and people’s struggles in Europe
European Coordination Via Campesina and Hands Off the Land Network
Human Rights Watch report on Mozambique
Please find links below to a recent Human Rights Watch report and video on the human rights impacts of coal mining in Mozambique. Our report shows that almost 60% of Tete province, site of large coal reserves, has been allocated for approved or proposed mining licenses.