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  • Publications
    • Book Review by Robin Palmer Mokoro, Oxford, England
    • First LRAN book in english now avaliable
    • LRAN Briefing Paper Series
      • Biofuels, Mass Evictions and Violence
      • Defending the Commons, Territories and the Right to Food and Water
      • Defending the Commons, Territories and the Right to Food and Water
      • Farmers mobilise to find solutions against land grabbing
      • Land Struggles
      • Soybean Production in the Southern Cone of the Americas
  • What is LRAN?
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• Agrarian Reform
  • UNAC statement on the ProSavana Programme
  • A Comparison with FAO guidelines
  • Agrarian Reform Agenda: Not P-Noy’s Priority
  • Agrarian reform policy in Brazil
  • Anti-Land Reform Land Policy?
  • BAHA-TALIBAYOG: Tales of Injustices, Food Insecurity and Environmental Danger
  • Biodiversity and land reforms- a neglected linkage
  • Bukit Tinggi Declaration
  • CARPER and the Continuing Struggle for Land
  • CARPER: Latest Episode in the Battle for Agrarian Reform
  • Farmers set huge rally for CARP
  • From Agribusiness to Agroecology?
  • Inter-American Dialogue’s Latin America Advisor
  • La cara oculta de los supermercados
  • LAND – GOLD – REFORM: The Territorial Restructuring of Guatemala’s Highlands
  • Land Reform and National Development in Nepal
  • Land reform suffers reversal in Sariaya
  • Land Reform Under Lula
  • Land Reform, Rural Social Relations and the Peasantry
  • Leaseback Arrangements: Reversing Agrarian Reform Gains in the Philippines
  • Monocropping of Sugarcane and Counter-Agrarian Reform
  • New report on Land Concentration and Land Grabbing in Europe
  • Occasional Paper 12: Lessons of Transparency from EITI
  • Outcomes of post-2000 Fast Track Land Reform in Zimbabwe
  • Peasant-led agrarian reform and food sovereignty
  • Politics of IFIs in Asia: Displacement and Resistance for Land and Water
  • Principles for responsible investment in agriculture
  • Q&A: Bolivia Limits Size of Estates in Land Reform Struggle
  • Red Sugar, Green Deserts
  • Report: Opening Pandora’s Box - Land Grabbing and Extractive Industries
  • Small scale sustainable farmers are cooling down the earth
  • Stakeholders trash draft Bill on land acquisition
  • Standing on Tenuous Grounds
  • Territorial Restructuring and the Grounding of Agrarian Reform: Indigenous Communities, Gold Mining and the World Bank
  • The FAO and its work on land policy and agrarian reform
  • The myths surrounding the global rush for farmland
  • The Paradox of Cuban Agriculture
  • Three decades of agrarian reform in Zimbabwe
  • Two Models of Land Reform and Development
  • Venezuela Accelerates Land Reform
  • Walk for Sumilao Land, Walk for Justice
  • What does it take to get justice in the Philippines?: The Struggle for Land, Life, and Rights of Filipino Farmers
  • Why We Oppose the Principles for Responsible Agricultural Investment (RAI)
  • 1st Encounter of Agroecology Trainers in Africa
  • Food Sovereignty
    • How Twenty-First-Century Science Can Feed the World
    • Summary of Critical analysis of the causes of the explosion in world agricultural prices
    • Agrofuels, Food Sovereignty, and the Contemporary Food Crisis
    • An Answer to the Global Food Crisis
    • Concrete measures are needed to strengthen peasant and farmer-based food production
    • Declaration of Nyeleni
    • Declaration of the “Land, Territory and Dignity” Forum, Porto Alegre, March 6-9, 2006 - For a New Agrarian Reform based on Food Sovereignty!
    • Final Declaration: Stop Land-Grabbing Now!
    • Final Report
    • Fixing our Global Food System
    • Food and climate change: the forgotten link
    • Food Sovereignty and Alternative Paradigms to Confront Land Grabbing and the Food and Climate Crises
    • Food Sovereignty and Alternative Paradigms to Confront Land Grabbing and the Food and Climate Crises
    • Food Sovereignty and the Contemporary Food Crisis
    • Food Sovereignty in Latin America: Confronting the ‘New’ Crisis
    • Food Sovereignty is what Africa Needs
    • Food sovereignty: for a future without hunger
    • Forum in Mali: Building consensus
    • Fourteen Years of NAFTA and the Tortilla Crisis
    • GETTING OUT OF THE FOOD CRISIS
    • John Kinsman: Nation’s Food System Nearly Broke
    • Join us in the Global Campaign for the Defense of Autonomous Indigenous and Peasant Lands and Territories, in Chiapas, Mexico and the World!!!
    • Liberalizing Food Trade to Death
    • New land grab website
    • Nyéléni Newsletter - Boletín Nyéléni - Bulletin
    • Nyeleni 2007, Unconventional Gathering
    • Occasional Paper 9: Tale of Two Economies
    • OPEN LETTER to Mr Jacques Diouf, Jacques Diouf and John W. Ashe
    • Peak Soil: Why cellulosic ethanol, biofuels are unsustainable and a threat to America
    • Peoples’ Caravan Delegates Arrested in Nepal
    • Preventing hunger: change economic policy
    • Saying No to Soy
    • Small farms as a planetary ecological asset
    • Social and environmental impacts of sugarcane production in Brazil
    • The 2008 land grab for food and financial security
    • The Avery Diet: The Hudson Institute’s Misinformation Campaign Against Cuban Agriculture
    • The Campesino-to-Campesino agroecology movement of ANAP in Cuba
    • The Committee on World Food Security (CFS)
    • The ecological and social tragedy of crop-based biofuel production in the Americas
    • The Food Sovereignty Movement in Venezuela, Part 1
    • The Food Sovereignty Movement in Venezuela, Part 2
    • The Statute of Rural Renewal puts Taiwan’s Farmers in red alert
    • The Time has Come for La Via Campesina and Food Sovereignty
    • The World Food Crisis: Causes and Solutions
    • U.S. FAMILY FARMERS APPLAUD DEMISE OF DOHA NEGOTIATIONS
    • Viral times - The politics of emerging global animal diseases
    • Who Owns Nature?
    • Wilderswil declaration on Livestock diversity
    • Will Rising Prices Spark a Food Crisis in Latin America?
  • Global Capitalism
    • A response to the Global Food Prices Crisis
    • Agribusiness and the Food Crisis: A new thrust at anti-trust
    • Agrofuels and the Myth of the Marginal Lands
    • Allied with Brazilian Agribusiness, Syngenta Resists Governor’s Decree to Expropriate Site
    • American farms’ answer to illegal immigration is to grow crops in Mexico
    • An Agrarian Crisis in the Making
    • Assumptions in the European Union biofuels policy: frictions with experiences in Germany, Brazil and Mozambique
    • Climate Crises: Defending the land
    • Colombia: Casualties in Battle Against Free Trade Pact with US
    • Declaration of Havana
    • Defending the Rights of Corporations at the Cost of the Rights of the People
    • Development and Plunder in the Mekong Region
    • Dr. Raj Patel of LRAN critiques the World Bank’s World Development Report
    • Europes factory farms devastating communities and environment
    • Expansion of Biotechnology in Brazil Augments Rural Conflicts
    • Farmland Frontier
    • Food figures need a pinch of salt
    • Food imperialism: Norman Borlaug and the Green Revolution
    • Foreign aid and CARP extension
    • Free Trade vs. Small Farmers
    • Globalization, Productivity, and ’Protectionism’
    • How the World Bank Maintains its Research Paradigm & Dominance
    • How the World Trade Organisation is driving farmers into poverty
    • Introduction: Global Land Grabs: Investments, risks and dangerous legacies
    • Investing in land: a commentary on the World Bank report
    • Investments, risks and dangerous legacies
    • Is Corn Leading Us Towards Social Change or Ecological Disaster?
    • Land and Natural Resource Alienation in Cambodia
    • Land grabbing in Latin America
    • Land: Merchandise or Human Right?
    • Making a killing from the food crisis
    • Monocropping of Sugarcane and Counter-Agrarian Reform
    • Peasants of the World Need. . .
    • Poverty according to the World Bank
    • Preventing hunger: Change economic policy
    • Responsibly Destroying the World’s Peasantry
    • Shadows of global crisis on agriculture
    • Soy nexus in South America
    • Stop land grabbing now
    • Strike Four in Climate Change: A “Climate Space” to rethink analysis and strategies
    • Sugarcane plantations destroy the Cerrado in Brazil
    • Taboo in the Countryside,Thank You MST
    • The Crime of the Latifundio
    • The crisis will be profound and prolonged
    • The dilemma of land grabs and the implications for sustainability
    • The global food crisis and food security in India
    • The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: The Land Policies of the World Bank
    • The Neoliberal Agrarian Model in Brazil
    • The Neoliberal Agrarian Model in Brazil
    • The new farm owners
    • The palm oil land grab
    • The Rise of Food Fascism:
    • THE SUGARCANE INDUSTRY AND THE GLOBAL ECONOMIC CRISIS
    • The unnatural coupling: Food and global finance
    • Whose Lands? Whose Resources?
    • Why Food Import Surges Are an Issue at The WTO
    • World Bank report on land grabbing: beyond the smoke and mirrors
    • Africa
      • A Glimpse of the Peasant and Small Farmer Association Movement in Mozambique
      • Africa Up For Grabs
      • Africa: The Global Food Price Crisis - A Critique of Orthodox Perspectives
      • Agroecological Farming Key To Africa’s Future
      • Biofuels drive raises risk of farmer eviction in Africa
      • India joins ’neocolonial’ rush for Africa’s land and labour
      • Land-grabbing in Africa: The why and the how
      • Lessons of Zimbabwe Mahmood Mamdani
      • New Blog on Oilpalm in Africa
      • Turning African farmland over to big business
      • Zimbabwe’s land reform
  • New Technologies
    • Agribusiness’ headlong flight to agrofuels and their impact on food security
    • Agroenergy: Myths and Impacts in Latin America
    • Biofuels: The Five Myths of the Agro-fuels Transition
    • Colombia’s Palm Oil Biodiesel Push
    • Colonialism and Agroenergy
    • Ethanol Booms, Farmers Bust
    • Green Gold Rush: Africa Becoming a Biofuel Battleground
    • Let’s discuss and combine to avert Jatropha soffocation of countries of the ’South’
    • Militant Brazilian Opposition to Bush-Lula Ethanol Accords
    • The Genetic Shell Game, or, Now you see it! Now you don’t! Industry exploits new study on transgenic maize in Mexico
    • We need agrofuel, not biofuel, right?
  • News
    • A Voice Unheard: Frustration takes its toll
    • Agrarian Crisis Sparks Nationwide Strike
    • Arroyo certifies urgent CARP extension bill
    • Benoni Ruling a Victory for South Africa’s 26-million Landless People
    • Brazil : Agrarian Reform for Informal Lands
    • Brazil Activists Target Monsanto
    • Brazil: Cargill’s Amazon port shut down
    • Chavez Led Land Reform Enrages Large Landowners
    • Crisis in South Africa Land Reform Movement
    • Declaration of the Via Campesina’s 4th International Conference
    • Europeans Resist Wolfowitz for World Bank- Lack of Consultation, War Role Criticized
    • Farmer is Face of Land Reform’s Success at 16
    • For a world without hunger: Agrarian reform now! Report on the World Forum on Agrarian Reform
    • For Stedile, Now Brazil has the Chance to Defeat the Latifundio
    • I’m a Landless Peasant, I’ve Got Land but it’s in the Graveyard
    • Impacts of Expansion of Sugarcane Monocropping for Ethanol Production
    • Land Reform Ridden with Loopholes
    • Land Rights for Women Still Far From Becoming a Reality
    • LPM reject NLC board’s efforts to crush landless struggle
    • MST and Via Campesina Launch Campaign Against the Latifundio
    • New FIAN report on landgrabbing in Kenya and Mozambique
    • Newsletter / Lettre d’information U.N. Special Rapporteur on the right to food
    • Philippine Agrarian Reform Gives Land to the Wealthy
    • Phillippine Farmers on Hunger Strike
    • Press release: International Day of Peasant Struggles
    • Saudia Arabia eyes U.S. for ag investing, contracts
    • Sumilao land remains undistributed after 2 years
    • The Politics of Land Reform in Southern Africa
    • To Fight for the Land and to Learn from the Struggle
    • Update on the Calatagan Farmers’ Campaign
    • Venezuela Embarks on New Land Reform
    • 8 November : Worldwide protest against Syngenta
  • Sustainable Agriculture
    • Climate Negotiations: Peasants have a role to play
    • Food security and sustainable livelihood in China
    • Lessons from Cuba
    • Meeting the challenge of feeding the world and cooling the Earth
    • The Campesino-to-Campesino agroecology movement of ANAP in Cuba
• Human Rights Monitor
  • Denunciation of peasant rights violations in Paraguay
  • Ecuador: Peasant lands occupied in La Tranca, province of Los Ríos
  • Report submitted by the Special Rapporteur on the right to food, Olivier De Schutter
  • The Philippines: Access to land is denied to 165 farmer beneficiaries, Sumilao, Bukidnon, Northern Mindanao
  • Violation of Rights and Violence Persist in the Countryside
  • Urgent Actions
    • Sygenta represses and murders rural workers!
    • Brazil: Increasing repression and criminalization against the Landless People Movement (MST)
    • Colombia: displacement of rural families, Bolívar region
    • Colombia: Peasants arrested and threatened due to their struggle for land
    • Donate to Via Campesina Tsunami Relief and Reconstruction Fund
    • Guatemala: Peasant leader and his children murdered in Zacapa
    • Guatemala: Violent eviction of peasant families in Tecún Umán, San Marcos
    • Honduras: Need to implement the right to food and agrarian reform in the community of Guadalupe Carney, Colón
    • Honduras: Forced eviction of peasant group, Santa Ana de Aguan/Yoro
    • Madagascar: threat of large-scale land acquisition by foreign companies
    • Mexico: Dispossession of indigenous lands, Chiapas
    • MST Asks for Urgent Action: Court of Justice of Para will sentence appeal in the lawsuit of the massacre in Eldorado dos Carajas
    • PHILIPPINES: Extra-judicial Killings; violence against the activists; collapse of rule of law
    • PHILIPPINES: Killing of a peasant leader in Bukidnon
    • Syngenta Threatens to Violently Expel the Family Farmers of the Via Campesina from the Free Land encampment
    • TAKE ACTION-South African Organizer Kubheka Harassed by Land Owner
    • Urgent Appeal for Support for Landless Tenants Movement
• Social Movements
  • Argentina: Disappearing Farmers, Disappearing Food
  • Chavez Renewed Latin America and Revived Socialism
  • Feeding the world and cooling the planet: La Vía Campesina’s Fifth International Conference
  • Final declaration of International Conference on Peasants’ Rights
  • Focus Policy Review: Whose Growth? Whose Democracy?
  • Hacienda Luisita Farmworkers-Beneficiaries Vow to Make their Land Productive
  • Hengara: Perseverance and hope
  • Inter-American Development Bank Megaprojects: Displacement and Forced Migration
  • International Woman Peasant Assembly On Peasant Rights
  • Rural Social Movements and Agroecology: Context, Theory, and Process
  • Small scale producers: key to the protection of biodiversity
  • The Landless rural workers movement and democracy in Brazil
  • Asia
    • Aquino ‘worst performer’ of CARP, say bishop, farmers
    • Cambodian Platform for Struggle
    • Church hits Aquino’s dismal agrarian record
    • Contrary to What Cojuangco-Aquinos Say, Farming Improved Lives of Many Luisita Folk
    • Land Not for Sale in Myanmar
    • Letter of Global Solidarity against Land Grabs in Burma/Myanmar
    • Palace to farmers: Let’s help each other on agrarian reform
    • Philippines: Updates Re Hacienda Luisita Case
    • Senate sees no need for Carp extension
    • Statement by political parties and civil society
    • Tales from Hacienda Luisita
    • Whose “Clean” Development? Communities Speak Out
  • indigenous people
    • An aerial shot of a palm oil plantation on Sumatra Island
    • Chiapas: The New Face of the War I
    • Chiapas: the New Face of War II
    • Communitarian Socialism in Bolivia
    • The Walk ends, The March towards Social Justice proceeds
  • MST
    • A Place in the Country
    • ABOLISH THE MST, OR THE UNPRODUCTIVE LATIFUNDIUM?
    • Democracy and its Simulacra
    • Grain interview João Pedro Stedile
    • Landless Rural Workers Confront Brazil’s Lula
    • Leader, MST and Via Campesina Brazil
    • Letter to president Lula
    • Letter to the people from the 5th MST National Congress
    • Police Evict 250 Families in Attack on Elizabeth Teixeira Encampment
    • Syngenta: murder and private militias in Brazil
    • TAKE ACTION NOW!! - Send Letters Decrying Public Ministry Plans to “dissolve” the MST
    • Why are we mobilized in Brazil as a whole?
  • Via Campesina
    • “If we rely on corporate seed, we lose food sovereignty”
    • Global Campaign to End Violence against Women
    • La Via Campesina: the birth and evolution of a transnational social movement
    • Land Gabbing : Action de Via Campesina au siège de la FAO
    • Say NO to the principles of “responsible” agro-enterprise investment promoted by the World Bank
    • Surin Declaration
    • Sustainable Peasant and Family Farm Agriculture Can Feed the World
  • Zapatista
    • Comuniqué read by Comandanta Kelly, Sixth Commission, Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN).
    • Evictions of indigenous communities fuel displacement in Chiapas
    • MEXICO: Army, Paramilitary Build-Up in Zapatista Stronghold
    • Participatory Democracy in Action
    • Participatory Democracy in Action
    • The reconquest of recuperated land in Chiapas
    • What the Zapatistas Can Teach us About the Climate Crisis
• Violence and represion
  • Contemporary Slavery in Brazil: 1985 to 2009
  • Fallen Banker with Ties to Citigroup Involved in Shooting of Brazilian Landless Workers
  • Fian International, Friends of the Earth International and La Via Campesina condemn the forced eviction of the community of Las Pavas
  • Landless Rural Worker Shot by Security Company Hired by Multinational Syngenta
  • Mass Detention of Over 5500 FARMERS in Ahmedabad
  • REPORT: Police Open Fire on Peasants in Lombok, Indonesia
  • The chainsaw massacre
  • News
    • Pull-out military from Hacienda Luisita, peasants urged Noynoy
    • Denunciations
      • Attack of Syngenta’s armed militia results in deaths and woundeds Brazil
      • Colombia - S.O.S. On behalf of the Indigenous Peoples: Nukak Makú, Guayabero, Sikuani, and Tucano
      • How Northern Donors Promote Corruption: Tales From the New Mozambique
      • Indigenous Rights Attorney Assassinated in Venezuela
      • Landless lock motorway in support to the evicted families in Limeira
      • LPM 4 to testify in trial of acussed torture cop - 23 August, 2005
      • LPM Condemns the Detention of APF Activists
      • LPM Members Arrested on Election Day
      • Memorandum To President Thabo Mbeki
      • NEWS RELEASE: The armed men formed a line, pointed their guns at us and fired
      • NLC National Office: Letter to Partners
      • NLC Network Staff Reject NLC Director’s Dismissal
      • Peasants Assassinated in Honduras
      • PHILIPPINES: Farm leader wounded in shooting in front of his family
      • Police Disrupt Peasant Gathering in Lombok: 37 Peasants Shot and Wounded. Indonesia, 18 September, 2005
      • Riot police invades camp and fires against Landless
      • URGENT: Solidarity with Oaxaca
      • 40 Days of Protest Against Glamis Gold’s Guatemalan Mine End in Blood Shed
  • Opinion
    • A Recipe for a Crisis
    • Colombia: Decades of War Over Land
    • Mesuji, land conflict and legal pluralism
    • Stop Forced Removals & Evictions! Stop Privatisation!
    • The Right of Peasants to Produce Food is in Danger