A ‘Land Sovereignty’ Alternative?
Towards a Peoples’ Counter-Enclosure Jennifer FrancoJun BorrasDramatic changes around food, climate, energy, and finance in recent years have pushed questions of land use and land control back onto...
View ArticleBibliography on biofuels, land rights and global land grabbing
A list of suggested reading Want to hit the ground running on the issues of biofuels, land rights in Africa and the global land grab? Here are some excellent reading suggestions. read more
View ArticleBiofuels production in Uruguay: an exception that proves the rule?
Daniel ChavezThe Uruguayan state-owned biofuels enterprise ALUR challenges many assumptions about the societal implications of biofuels production, as it supports local livelihoods, protects the...
View ArticleClimate Space
LocationTunisTunisia Join the Climate Space at the WSF 2013 27 March 2013 - 30 March 2013Event location: TunisTunisia Forum Media filesPDF or Document Download: Flyer Climate Spaceread more
View ArticleSons and Daughters of the Earth
Indigenous communities and land grabs in Guatemala Food First & TNI, Alberto Alonso-Fradejas In the face of violent dispossession and incorporation into an exploitative labor regime, indigenous...
View ArticleCall to reject G8’s proposed transparency initiative for land transactions
G8 should implement the CFS Tenure Guidelines rather than launch a new initiative - we strongly reject and condemn the proposed initiative on transparency and will oppose any money and market driven...
View ArticleGoverning the Global Land Grab
Competing political tendencies Jennifer FrancoJun Borras Chunyu Wang The rise of flex crops—crops with multiple uses across food, feed, fuel and industrial complexes—has far-reaching implications for...
View ArticleThe Sugarcane Industry and the global economic crisis
Maria Luisa Mendonça, Fabio T. Pitta and Carlos Vinicius Xavier This article presents information on the latest trends in ethanol production in Brazil and their relation to the global economic crisis....
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