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Land & Sovereignty Brief No. 2 - Governing the Global Land Grab: Competing political tendencies
by Saturnino M. Borras, Jr., Jennifer Franco and Chunyu Wang
This brief provides crucial context for understanding land grabbing and discusses three political tendencies in global land governance. Understanding these tendencies is critical if transnational movements are to carry out effective advocacy campaigns against land grabbing. This is the second brief in the Land & Sovereignty in the Americas series, co-published by Food First and the Transnational Institute.
Detroit Raps Against Land Grabs
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G-8 Leaders: After 20 Years, It's Time to Listen to Via Campesina
Spanish translation below.
Eric Holt Gimenez, Executive Director, Food First/Institute for Food and Development Policy
La Via Campesina International passes on the [leadership] torch to Africa
June 13, 2013, Jakarta, Indonesia
La Via Campesina Press release
La Via Campesina, the global movement of mass based peasant organizations, will soon come to the end of its 6th global conference that is being held from the 9-13 June at the Padepokan Pencak Silat Indonesia, Taman Mini in Jakarta, Indonesia. The movement has made crucial decisions regarding it future strategies, new members, new coordinators and other important internal issues.
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