Land grabbing: Towards the unification of struggles
On April 17, 1996, 19 landless rural workers were brutally murdered by the police during a peaceful demonstration for agrarian reform in the state of Pará, in Brazil’s Amazon region. (Read More)
OUR VIEWPOINT
NO TO EARTH GRABBING!
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Earth grabbing: The ongoing concentration and privatisation of land, water, air
There is a great deal of talk about the crises facing the planet: the climate crisis, energy crisis, food crisis, financial crisis, loss of biodiversity, and so on. Without a (Read More)
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Destructive Investments in Laos and Cambodia
What kind of development is this? If the government cares about development, they should take the people along so that we can own the development and what comes out of (Read More)
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A Timorese Forest Struggle
How far would you go to protect your forest? Villagers from Pollo community in South Central Timor regency in Indonesia have set a remarkable example, weathering years of bureaucratic indifference, (Read More)
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Mozambique: Monoculture tree plantation projects foster land grabbing, threaten food security
The interest of foreign investors in natural resources, and especially land, has grown significantly in recent years throughout Africa, and Mozambique is no exception. It is in the northern region (Read More)
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Land grabbing and its consequences: The case of Brazil
Throughout history, rural areas have been occupied two different ways in Brazil. One of them is the colonial, capitalist and entrepreneurial way, which is nothing new, but has recently gained (Read More)
PEOPLE IN ACTION
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International Day of Peasant Struggle
La Via Campesina is gathering information on actions organized around the world against land grabbing and in support of agrarian reform, food sovereignty and other demands in the framework of (Read More)
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Impacts of oil prospecting and exploration in Virunga National Park
Numerous social organizations from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) met together with local and traditional authorities in the province of North Kivu on March 23-24 to consider the impacts (Read More)
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Petition to support Chinese lawyer imprisoned because of defending communities affected by Stora Enso´s eucalyptus plantations in China
Chinese lawyer Yang Zaixin has been imprisoned in Beihai, Southern China since June 2011. We urge you to support a petition that demands that the Finnish government and company Stora (Read More)
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Support the statement against the corporate capture of Rio+20
A number of international civil society organizations and social movements have joined together to issue a statement against what they call the “corporate capture” of Rio+20: the zero draft of (Read More)
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Declaration of the Third Special Conference for Food Sovereignty, Rights and Life
In Buenos Aires, Argentina, on March 22-25, the International Committee for Food Sovereignty-Regional Coordinator for Latin America and the Caribbean (CIP-ALC) organized the Third Special Conference for Food Sovereignty, Rights (Read More)