• Français
• English
• Italiano

Home | Themes

Themes

• EUROPEAN BANKS AND PENSION FUNDS FUEL LAND-GRABS IN UGANDA

  European banks and pension funds continue to finance the palm oil giant Wilmar International, according to new research released by Friends of the Earth Europe

  Category: Access to land

• MODERNISING AFRICAN AGRICULTURE: WHO BENEFITS?

  Statement by Civil Society in Africa

  Category: Models of production

• Position on the marketing of seeds, plant health and controls

  Position of European Coordination Via Campesina on the marketing of seeds, plant health and controls

  Category: Models of production

• 17th of April 2013 - International Day of Peasant struggles

  New report argues that :Land concentration and land grabbing are occurring and reaching blatant levels in Europe

  Category: Access to land

• African Regional Plant Variety Protection Draft Legislation Raises Protest

  Civil society organisations from the SADC region condemned the SADC draft Protocol for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants (Plant Breeders’ Rights) as spelling disaster for small farmers and food security in the region.  They are calling for urgent consultations

  Category: Models of production

• Tanzanian civil society statement on farmers' rights

  Tanzanian farmers are dependent on the farmer-managed seed systems. These systems allow farmers to limit the cost of production by preserving biodiversity and independence from the commercial seed sector
  

  Category: Models of production

• African governments blamed for land grab by investors

  Some African states have been accused of complicity in the problem of land grab by investors. Cecile Leuba of Peuples Solidaire and Action Aid France says this is having a serious effect on the local people who lose their land.

  Category: Access to land

• BRICS grab African land and sovereignty

  BRICS states, except Russia, are enhancing and facilitating land grabs abroad in a way that is inconsistent with their proclamations of sustainable development, cooperation solidarity, and respect of national sovereignty.

  Category: Access to land

• Social and Environmental Impacts of Agricultural Large-Scale Land Acquisitions in Africa

  A study on land grabbing effect with a focus on West and Central Africa. By Rights and Resources Coalition

  Category: Access to land

• Promising Steps Toward Recognition of Women’s Right to Food

  In celebration of International Women's Day, FIAN International applauds recent efforts to develop international frameworks in support of the right to adequate food for women.

  Category: Access to land

• Something rotten in the food system

  Poverty, not scarcity of food is the cause of hunger. The current world trade order is skewed against the interests of the needy. Change is required at all levels. An article by Dagmar Milerova Praskova of Glopolis, partner of EuropAfrica.

  Category: Models of production

• The G8 and land grabs in Africa

  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. By Grain

  Category: Access to land

• land grabbing for biofuel must stop

  On October 2012, the European Commission  published a proposal to limit the contribution food crops can make towards the the EC's target for renewable energy in transportation. But It's not enough.

  Category: Access to land

• International Day of Peasants’ Struggles - Call for mobilisation

  A call for mobilisation by la via campesina to stop land grabbing

  Category: Access to land

• Has Tanzania Benefitted From the 'Super' Nations?

  Agriculture in Tanzania involves the participation of the majority of the rural population whose country population stands at about 80 per cent. The Government have to promote agricultural small-scale development

  Category: Markets

• The Financial Risks of Insecure Land Tenure

  In recent years, one of the oldest asset classes in investment – land – has become an issue of international concern and scrutiny. A publication about this issue by the Rights and resources Initiative

  Category: Access to land

• Liberia: Land Grabs and Human Rights Violations Exposed in Liberia Ahead of Global Development Summit

  Palm oil companies are grabbing more than 1.5 million acres of land in Liberia and are violating the human rights of local communities

  Category: Access to land

• Indian, Ethiopian activists against land grabbing meet in New Delhi

   The Indian Social Action Forum (INSAF) and the Oakland Institute in the US will convene a day-long summit on 6 February at the India International Centre, New Delhi, bringing together activists resisting land grabs across India and Ethiopia.

  Category: Access to land

• Europe : The EFSA finally decides in favour of beekeepers and consumers

  The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has just published an opinion on the evaluation of the risks posed to bees and other pollinators by the use of insecticides of the neonicotinoid family

  Category: Models of production

• Agricultural investments and land acquisitions in Mali

  A report by IIED on agricultural investments in Mali. It analyses national trends in investment flows and patterns; it assesses the adequacy of the legal and institutional framework regulating land and investment; and it examines two examples of more inclusive investments.

  Category: Models of production

• Uganda: From victims of Lord’s Resistance Army conflict to victims of land conflicts

  6 December, 2012 - It is not necessarily land scarcity, but rather improper land administration, abuse of power and systems that are key land conflict triggers in northern Uganda.

  Category: Access to land

• Investors must stop land grabbing, say civil society groups

  Major farmland investors such as banks and pension funds must stop facilitating land grabs, say civil society groups on the eve of a global farmland investment conference in London on 3-5 December

  Category: Access to land

• In Surin the First Global Encounter on Agroecology and Seeds

  International delegates of La Via Campesina gathered in Surin, Thailand, from 6 to 12 November 2012 for the First Global Encounter on Agroecology and Seeds.

  Category: Models of production

• Importation of all GMO food banned

  Public Health minister Beth Mugo subsequently directed all Public Health Officers at all ports of entry and all other government regulators to enforce the ban on importation of Genetically Modified Foods in the country.

  Category: Models of production

• Stanford researchers show oil palm plantations are clearing carbon-rich tropical forests in Borneo

  Demand for palm oil is driving the deforestation of forests in Borneo, as trees are cleared to make way for the planting of oil farm plantations, which will send carbon dioxide, a global-warming gas, into the atmosphere.

  Category: Access to land

• The Netherlands and the Global Land and Water Grab

  All around the globe, many people are losing their control over land, water and forests. The Dutch government said that the Netherlands is not involved in land grabbing. But it's not true

  Category: Access to land

• International Conference of Peasants and farmers: stop land grabbing

  This report is a summery of the debates and presentations held at the conference in Mali against land grabbing, from 17 to 19 November 2011

  Category: Access to land

• Cameroon: Stricter taxes for companies drawing on natural resources to better tackle hunger – UN Special Rapporteur

  Olivier De Schutter, UN Special Rapporteur on the right to food, proposes stricter taxes for companies and more partecipation for smallholders, herders and fishers against food crises

  Category: Models of production

• $100bn interfaith investor group sets out guidelines on commodities and land investments

  The Interfaith Centre on Corporate Responsibility, the US investor group with 300 institutional investor members with over $100bn (€79.9bn) in invested capital, has published recommended guidelines for investing in commodities and land.

  Category: Markets

• Romania must not sell out traditional farmers to the biotech giants

  Romania's smallholder farmers are being denied EU funding as ministers allow the encroachment of large-scale agribusiness (from The Guardian)

  Category: Models of production

• Lives on Hold: How AgriSol's Land Deal in Tanzania Creates an Uncertain Future for people

  A new report by the Oakland Institute provides details from the ground as the investor faces the Iowa. More than 160.000 long-term residents of Katumba and Mishamo will evict

  Category: Access to land

• European pensions drive land grabs in global south

  Campaign calls for an end to land speculation, by Friends of the Earth Europe

  Category: Access to land

• Agricultural transition - a book for a viable future

  A book launched today for promoting a viable food future. By More and Better

  Category: Models of production

• Tanzania: country urged to reduce land lease period to investors

  Tanzania has been advised to reduce land lease agreement to investors to below 50 years from the current 99. This is in a bid to improve efficient use of potential land.

  Category: Access to land

• EU 2011 review shows growing importance of ACP markets

  EU agricultural export to ACP group is growing very fast. it's not the same for ACP exports towards Europe

  Category: Markets

• New international land deals database reveals rush to buy up Africa

  The world's largest database of international land deals is launched. More than 200m hectares of land were sold or leased between 20120 and 2011

  Category: Access to land

• Land grabbing in Mali: urgent call for support farmers' rights

  An urgent call for support from CNOP against land grabbing.

  Category: Access to land

• Stop Land Grabbing – land to the tillers!

  Call for April 17: International Day of Peasant Struggle

  Category: Access to land

• Time is now: clear international rules are needed now to ensure people's access to land, fisheries and forests and save lives

  Rome, 9th March - Civil Society explains the importance on the Voluntary Guidelines for land tenure. The negotiations was concluded last friday.

  Category: Access to land

• Land use negotiations re-open at the FAO

  From 5 to 8 March NGOs, civil society and heads of state return to Rome to discuss the FAO Voluntary Guidelines on the responsible use of land

  Category: Access to land

• Quelles stratégies pour améliorer le pouvoir de marché des producteurs ?

  Cette publication a été rédigée par le Collectif stratégies alimentaires (CSA), dans le cadre du second programme du Collectif EuropAfrique.

  Category: Markets

• The Hunger-Makers

  How Deutsche Bank, Goldman Sachs and Other Financial Institutions are speculating With Food at the Expense of the Poorest

  Category: Markets

• Investigation cautions against private land investments in South Sudan

  Between 2007 and 2010, 5.15 million hectares has been sought in South Sudan by private interests. We need new solutions for its development

  Category: Access to land

• Ending Hunger in Africa: What Strategies, What Governance?

  Ndiogou Fall, President of the ROPPA network for 10 years, at Harvard University

  Category: Models of production

• Foreign energy policy fuels famine in Africa

  Pambazuka News speaks to Oakland Institute about the findings of their latest round of in-depth research into land grabs in Africa, from the role played by the energy policies of rich countries and the World Bank to the dangers of a development agenda that fails to heed the negative social, economic and environmental impacts of industrial agrofuel and agroforestry projects.

  Category: Access to land

• GRAIN calls for end to land grabbing at Swedish Parliament

  On 5 December 2011, GRAIN received the 2011 Right Livelihood Award, the ‘Alternative Nobel Prize’, at the Swedish Parliament in Stockholm. And It called for end to land grabbing

  Category: Access to land

• A Viable Food Future

  The Report written by the Development Fund, in cooperation with several Civil Society's Organization.

  Category: Models of production

• ‘Virtuous circles’ can help secure food supplies and address climate change

  A book published today by IIED paints a vivid picture of an alternative future in which food, energy and water supplies are sustainable and in the control of local communities.

  Category: Models of production

• Conference Declaration: Stop Land-Grabbing Now!

  Read the  final Nyeleni Declaration: to resist land-grabbing, to support all those who fight land-grabs, and to put pressure on national governments and international institutions to fulfill their obligations to ensure and uphold the rights of peoples

  Category: Access to land

• Controlling Our Food

  On March 11 a new documentary was aired on French television - a documentary that Americans won’t ever see. The gigantic bio-tech corporation Monsanto is threatening to destroy the agricultural biodiversity which has served mankind for thousands of years.

  Category: Models of production

• The future of food

  The Future of Food is a hopeful film, featuring insightful and moving interviews with farmers, agriculture and business experts and policymakers. It sees a future in which an informed consumer can join the revolution by demanding natural, healthy food sources that insure environmental integrity.

  Category: Models of production

• Report launch 2011. Spotlight on EU Policy Coherence for Development

  Concord presents the new Spotlight Report about EU policies effects in the areas of Food Security, Natural Resources, Human Security and Migration.Monday 7 November 2011, h 11:00 - 12:30 Residence Palace Press Centre, Maelbeek room, Brussels

  Category: Markets

• Global Governance for World Food Security: A Scorecard Four Years After the Eruption of the “Food Crisis”

  Food is the most basic of all human needs. After historic, social ed economic analysis about food security, Nora MCKeon proposes architecture and set of practices for a better global governance system

  Category: Models of production

• Advancing African Agriculture

  The European Civil Society 2009-2010 monitoring report on “Advancing African Agriculture: Europe’s Impact on African Agriculture”.  Presented in Bruxellex.