“Day of the Landless” annual commemoration lead by Asian Peasant Coalition joint by People's Coalition on Food Sovereignty, 'No Land, No Life' campaign of PAN Asia Pacific and Youth for Food Sovereignty, on March 29 this year call for peasants of the world to intensify struggle for land and life.
The fact that fewer new investments are being publicly recorded does not mean we should be complacent. Past deals are now being implemented, and communities are feeling the squeeze. Helping them obtain redress when violations occur is a priority.
Women are often short-changed compared to men when communities are compensated or resettled during commercial land deals in Africa.
Comment secret et collusion dans l’agriculture industrielle sont synonymes de désastre pour les forêts du bassin du Congo - un nouveau rapport de Earthsight
Les populations des 14 villages riverains exigent l’annulation de la délibération octroyant 100 ha à ce projet destructeur qui ne profitera qu’à une seule famille au détriment de plus de 30 000 âmes et du cheptel de la commune rurale de Kandia.
Jospeh Initiative limited, a company funded by United Kingdom’s Department for International Development (DFID) is grabbing about 2000 hectares and forcefully evicting over 2300 families off their land in Uganda
In Brazil's Cerrado region, large-scale farms have increasingly laid claim to natural lands – often held without deed by traditional communities – with agribusiness counting them as their reserves.
Around 100 Nagari Maligi residents (‘nagari’ means village in the local language) have been protesting for days at the Wilmar Group’s representative office in West Pasaman, Sumatra, Indonesia since March 9.
As comunidades locais, incluindo comunidades de quilombolas (descendentes de escravos negros) e povos indígenas, estão sendo violentamente deslocadas de suas terras tradicionais e enfrentam contaminação das águas e solos, aumento da violência contra seus líderes comunitários, desmatamento e perda da biodiversidade.
The World Bank is financing a land titling program in the Brazilian State of Piauí, where large areas of land have been grabbed from local communities and illegally occupied by big agribusiness companies.
Le député français Dominique Potier est favorable à une loi foncière en 2019 mais à une condition : « des mesures d'urgence doivent être mises en place à court terme ».
Una constante respecto a la propuesta de 2017 es la inclusión de normas de textura abierta que podrían favorecer la acumulación de tierras por parte de agentes económicos, en detrimento de la distribución para campesinas y campesinos sin tierra.
