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2017

• May
  • TIAA tied to deforestation and displacement of farmers, environmentalists claim in new report
  • Special Edition on the International Day of Peasants’ Struggles
• April
  • An Overview of Large-Scale Investments in the Mekong Region
• March
  • Amazon rainforest’s final frontier under threat from oil and soya

2016

• December
  • Interview with the Students of EDUCAR
• July
  • Brazil campaigners hail court decision canceling large land deal
  • The “Engine of Economic Growth”: An Overview of Private Investment Policies, Trends, and Projects in Cambodia
• June
  • International Financial Capital Targets Farmland in Brazil
• April
  • International Conference of Agrarian Reform: Marabá Declaration
• February
  • Organization and process social in bringing agroecology to scale
  • Educação do Campo
  • Logs and Patronage: Systematic illegal logging and the destruction of state forests and protected areas in Rattanakiri and Stung Treng Provinces, Cambodia

2015

• December
  • Cuba: Multimedia Peasant School-an audiovisual tool to scale up agroecology
• November
  • Foreign pension funds and land grabbing in Brazil
  • Media Coverage on Foreign Pensions Funds and Land Grabbing in Brazil
  • NYT: TIAA-CREF, U.S. Investment Giant, Accused of Land Grabs in Brazil
• March
  • Land grabbing as a political act in Turkey
  • CARP: Key to national development
  • Philippine’s flawed agrarian reform bears a little fruit
  • International Forum on Agroecology Declaration brings common understanding of agroecology

2014

• December
  • Farmers get 800 ha in agrarian hot spot
• November
  • Financial capital and land speculation in Brazil
  • Narratives of Land
• October
  • Special Grassroots voices section prepared by LRAN
  • Reclaiming Governance from the Market
• May
  • New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition in Africa raises concerns
  • To better understand anti-Zapatista violence in Chiapas. A brief guide
  • Land and Agrarian Reform in Zimbabwe : Beyond White-Settler Capitalism
• February
  • Preventing hunger: Change economic policy
• January
  • Food sovereignty and agroecology
  • Moving Forward: Study on the Impacts of the Implementation of Order 01BB in Selected Communities in Rural Cambodia

2013

• October
  • The Sugarcane Industry and the global economic crisis
• September
  • Media release of La Via Campesina ∕ Grain ∕ ETC
  • Journal of Peasant Studies
  • Re-thinking agrarian reform, land and territory in La Via Campesina
  • From Maputo to Jakarta
• August
  • Killings of Brazil’s indigenous Indians highlight tensions of land disputes
• July
  • International Seminar on Public Policy for Food Sovereignty
  • The State of Agrarian Reform Under President Benigno Aquino III’s Government
  • Agroecological revolution : The Farmer-to-Farmer Movement of the ANAP in Cuba
• April
  • New report on Land Concentration and Land Grabbing in Europe
  • "If we rely on corporate seed, we lose food sovereignty"
• March
  • Chavez Renewed Latin America and Revived Socialism
• February
  • Assumptions in the European Union biofuels policy: frictions with experiences in Germany, Brazil and Mozambique
  • Strike Four in Climate Change: A “Climate Space” to rethink analysis and strategies
  • Whose “Clean” Development? Communities Speak Out
  • Cambodian Platform for Struggle
  • Focus Policy Review: Whose Growth? Whose Democracy?
  • Global Campaign to End Violence against Women
  • The Committee on World Food Security (CFS)
  • Surin Declaration
  • Food Sovereignty and Alternative Paradigms to Confront Land Grabbing and the Food and Climate Crises
  • Preventing hunger: Change economic policy
  • Participatory Democracy in Action
  • The Campesino-to-Campesino agroecology movement of ANAP in Cuba
  • Rural Social Movements and Agroecology: Context, Theory, and Process

2012

• October
  • UNAC statement on the ProSavana Programme
  • THE SUGARCANE INDUSTRY AND THE GLOBAL ECONOMIC CRISIS
  • Land Not for Sale in Myanmar
  • Statement by political parties and civil society
  • Letter of Global Solidarity against Land Grabs in Burma/Myanmar
• August
  • Occasional Paper 12: Lessons of Transparency from EITI
• July
  • Soybean Production in the Southern Cone of the Americas
  • Bukit Tinggi Declaration
• June
  • Report: Opening Pandora’s Box - Land Grabbing and Extractive Industries
  • Palace to farmers: Let’s help each other on agrarian reform
  • Senate sees no need for Carp extension
  • Church hits Aquino’s dismal agrarian record
  • Aquino ‘worst performer’ of CARP, say bishop, farmers
• April
  • Hacienda Luisita Farmworkers-Beneficiaries Vow to Make their Land Productive
• January
  • Zimbabwe’s land reform
  • The Paradox of Cuban Agriculture
  • Defending the Commons, Territories and the Right to Food and Water

2011

• December
  • Mesuji, land conflict and legal pluralism
  • Outcomes of post-2000 Fast Track Land Reform in Zimbabwe
  • Social and environmental impacts of sugarcane production in Brazil
• November
  • Preventing hunger: change economic policy
  • Farmers mobilise to find solutions against land grabbing
  • Final Declaration: Stop Land-Grabbing Now!
• October
  • The myths surrounding the global rush for farmland
  • Food and climate change: the forgotten link
• September
  • How Twenty-First-Century Science Can Feed the World
  • Stakeholders trash draft Bill on land acquisition
• July
  • Meeting the challenge of feeding the world and cooling the Earth
  • 1st Encounter of Agroecology Trainers in Africa
  • Three decades of agrarian reform in Zimbabwe
• April
  • Whose Lands? Whose Resources?
  • Introduction: Global Land Grabs: Investments, risks and dangerous legacies
  • Biofuels, Mass Evictions and Violence
  • Press release: International Day of Peasant Struggles
• March
  • Report submitted by the Special Rapporteur on the right to food, Olivier De Schutter
  • Will Rising Prices Spark a Food Crisis in Latin America?
  • Peasant-led agrarian reform and food sovereignty
  • Climate Crises: Defending the land
  • Inter-American Dialogue’s Latin America Advisor
  • Investments, risks and dangerous legacies
  • Food Sovereignty and Alternative Paradigms to Confront Land Grabbing and the Food and Climate Crises
  • Occasional Paper 9: Tale of Two Economies
  • The dilemma of land grabs and the implications for sustainability
• January
  • The Campesino-to-Campesino agroecology movement of ANAP in Cuba
  • Participatory Democracy in Action

2010

• December
  • Newsletter / Lettre d’information U.N. Special Rapporteur on the right to food
  • Sustainable Peasant and Family Farm Agriculture Can Feed the World
• November
  • From Agribusiness to Agroecology?
  • Land Gabbing : Action de Via Campesina au siège de la FAO
  • The World Food Crisis: Causes and Solutions
  • Farmland Frontier
• October
  • Defending the Commons, Territories and the Right to Food and Water
  • Why We Oppose the Principles for Responsible Agricultural Investment (RAI)
  • A Comparison with FAO guidelines
  • Nyéléni Newsletter - Boletín Nyéléni - Bulletin
  • Investing in land: a commentary on the World Bank report
  • Food figures need a pinch of salt
• September
  • Philippines: Updates Re Hacienda Luisita Case
  • World Bank report on land grabbing: beyond the smoke and mirrors
  • Africa Up For Grabs
• August
  • Stop land grabbing now
  • New Blog on Oilpalm in Africa
  • Contrary to What Cojuangco-Aquinos Say, Farming Improved Lives of Many Luisita Folk
  • Tales from Hacienda Luisita
  • Pull-out military from Hacienda Luisita, peasants urged Noynoy
  • What the Zapatistas Can Teach us About the Climate Crisis
  • Agrarian Reform Agenda: Not P-Noy’s Priority
  • NEWS RELEASE: The armed men formed a line, pointed their guns at us and fired
• July
  • Hengara: Perseverance and hope
  • Anti-Land Reform Land Policy?
  • An aerial shot of a palm oil plantation on Sumatra Island
  • Violation of Rights and Violence Persist in the Countryside
  • Contemporary Slavery in Brazil: 1985 to 2009
  • Poverty according to the World Bank
  • Agrarian reform policy in Brazil
  • Monocropping of Sugarcane and Counter-Agrarian Reform
  • Final Report
• June
  • Responsibly Destroying the World’s Peasantry
  • Red Sugar, Green Deserts
  • Inter-American Development Bank Megaprojects: Displacement and Forced Migration
• May
  • Saudia Arabia eyes U.S. for ag investing, contracts
  • New FIAN report on landgrabbing in Kenya and Mozambique
  • Biofuels drive raises risk of farmer eviction in Africa
  • Principles for responsible investment in agriculture
  • Monocropping of Sugarcane and Counter-Agrarian Reform
  • Turning African farmland over to big business
  • The reconquest of recuperated land in Chiapas
• April
  • Communitarian Socialism in Bolivia
  • Say NO to the principles of “responsible” agro-enterprise investment promoted by the World Bank
  • Agribusiness and the Food Crisis: A new thrust at anti-trust
  • Sumilao land remains undistributed after 2 years
• March
  • Land grabbing in Latin America
  • Mass Detention of Over 5500 FARMERS in Ahmedabad
  • La Via Campesina: the birth and evolution of a transnational social movement
• February
  • Land Reform Under Lula
  • The Food Sovereignty Movement in Venezuela, Part 2
  • The Food Sovereignty Movement in Venezuela, Part 1

2009

• December
  • The chainsaw massacre
  • The palm oil land grab
  • Lessons from Cuba
  • Argentina: Disappearing Farmers, Disappearing Food
• October
  • Colombia: displacement of rural families, Bolívar region
  • Europes factory farms devastating communities and environment
  • The new farm owners
  • Land-grabbing in Africa: The why and the how
  • Food imperialism: Norman Borlaug and the Green Revolution
  • Monsanto’s Harvest of Fear
• August
  • Viral times - The politics of emerging global animal diseases
  • Fian International, Friends of the Earth International and La Via Campesina condemn the forced eviction of the community of Las Pavas
  • Land reform suffers reversal in Sariaya
  • Let’s discuss and combine to avert Jatropha soffocation of countries of the ’South’
  • An Agrarian Crisis in the Making
• July
  • India joins ’neocolonial’ rush for Africa’s land and labour
  • Fixing our Global Food System
  • Madagascar: threat of large-scale land acquisition by foreign companies
• June
  • Land Reform and National Development in Nepal
  • Food security and sustainable livelihood in China
  • Africa: The Global Food Price Crisis - A Critique of Orthodox Perspectives
  • CARPER and the Continuing Struggle for Land
  • The Landless rural workers movement and democracy in Brazil
  • CARPER: Latest Episode in the Battle for Agrarian Reform
  • Saying No to Soy
  • Shadows of global crisis on agriculture
  • Agribusiness’ headlong flight to agrofuels and their impact on food security
  • Agrofuels, Food Sovereignty, and the Contemporary Food Crisis
  • New land grab website
  • Fallen Banker with Ties to Citigroup Involved in Shooting of Brazilian Landless Workers
  • The Statute of Rural Renewal puts Taiwan’s Farmers in red alert
  • Agroecological Farming Key To Africa’s Future
• May
  • The Avery Diet: The Hudson Institute’s Misinformation Campaign Against Cuban Agriculture
• April
  • The unnatural coupling: Food and global finance
  • Food Sovereignty in Latin America: Confronting the ‘New’ Crisis
  • Venezuela Accelerates Land Reform
• March
  • The crisis will be profound and prolonged
  • John Kinsman: Nation’s Food System Nearly Broke
  • Feeding the world and cooling the planet: La Vía Campesina’s Fifth International Conference
  • Climate Negotiations: Peasants have a role to play
  • Farmers set huge rally for CARP
• January
  • Q&A: Bolivia Limits Size of Estates in Land Reform Struggle
  • The global food crisis and food security in India
  • Fourteen Years of NAFTA and the Tortilla Crisis
  • A Glimpse of the Peasant and Small Farmer Association Movement in Mozambique
  • Impacts of Expansion of Sugarcane Monocropping for Ethanol Production
  • Food Sovereignty and the Contemporary Food Crisis
  • Standing on Tenuous Grounds

2008

• December
  • Territorial Restructuring and the Grounding of Agrarian Reform: Indigenous Communities, Gold Mining and the World Bank
  • Lessons of Zimbabwe Mahmood Mamdani
• November
  • Who Owns Nature?
  • The 2008 land grab for food and financial security
• October
  • Defending the Rights of Corporations at the Cost of the Rights of the People
• September
  • Update on the Calatagan Farmers’ Campaign
  • Agrofuels and the Myth of the Marginal Lands
  • Green Gold Rush: Africa Becoming a Biofuel Battleground
  • The FAO and its work on land policy and agrarian reform
• August
  • U.S. FAMILY FARMERS APPLAUD DEMISE OF DOHA NEGOTIATIONS
  • Sugarcane plantations destroy the Cerrado in Brazil
  • ABOLISH THE MST, OR THE UNPRODUCTIVE LATIFUNDIUM?
  • Foreign aid and CARP extension
• July
  • The Time has Come for La Via Campesina and Food Sovereignty
  • TAKE ACTION NOW!! - Send Letters Decrying Public Ministry Plans to “dissolve” the MST
  • The Rise of Food Fascism:
  • International Woman Peasant Assembly On Peasant Rights
  • Final declaration of International Conference on Peasants’ Rights
• June
  • Brazil: Increasing repression and criminalization against the Landless People Movement (MST)
  • American farms’ answer to illegal immigration is to grow crops in Mexico
  • Arroyo certifies urgent CARP extension bill
  • GETTING OUT OF THE FOOD CRISIS
• May
  • Liberalizing Food Trade to Death
  • Summary of Critical analysis of the causes of the explosion in world agricultural prices
  • An Answer to the Global Food Crisis
  • Concrete measures are needed to strengthen peasant and farmer-based food production
  • Small farms as a planetary ecological asset
  • OPEN LETTER to Mr Jacques Diouf, Jacques Diouf and John W. Ashe
• April
  • Making a killing from the food crisis
  • BAHA-TALIBAYOG: Tales of Injustices, Food Insecurity and Environmental Danger
  • The Walk ends, The March towards Social Justice proceeds
  • A Recipe for a Crisis
  • Expansion of Biotechnology in Brazil Augments Rural Conflicts
• March
  • Small scale producers: key to the protection of biodiversity
  • Why Food Import Surges Are an Issue at The WTO
  • Biodiversity and land reforms- a neglected linkage
  • Leader, MST and Via Campesina Brazil
  • Is Corn Leading Us Towards Social Change or Ecological Disaster?
• February
  • A response to the Global Food Prices Crisis
• January
  • Evictions of indigenous communities fuel displacement in Chiapas
  • How the World Trade Organisation is driving farmers into poverty
  • MEXICO: Army, Paramilitary Build-Up in Zapatista Stronghold

2007

• December
  • Walk for Sumilao Land, Walk for Justice
  • Police Evict 250 Families in Attack on Elizabeth Teixeira Encampment
  • The Philippines: Access to land is denied to 165 farmer beneficiaries, Sumilao, Bukidnon, Northern Mindanao
  • Landless lock motorway in support to the evicted families in Limeira
  • Riot police invades camp and fires against Landless
• November
  • Syngenta: murder and private militias in Brazil
  • Denunciation of peasant rights violations in Paraguay
  • What does it take to get justice in the Philippines?: The Struggle for Land, Life, and Rights of Filipino Farmers
  • 8 November : Worldwide protest against Syngenta
  • Book Review by Robin Palmer Mokoro, Oxford, England
  • Small scale sustainable farmers are cooling down the earth
  • Sygenta represses and murders rural workers!
• October
  • Mexico: Dispossession of indigenous lands, Chiapas
  • Landless Rural Worker Shot by Security Company Hired by Multinational Syngenta
  • Colombia: Peasants arrested and threatened due to their struggle for land
  • Attack of Syngenta’s armed militia results in deaths and woundeds Brazil
  • Land Struggles
  • Dr. Raj Patel of LRAN critiques the World Bank’s World Development Report
  • Agroenergy: Myths and Impacts in Latin America
  • Honduras: Need to implement the right to food and agrarian reform in the community of Guadalupe Carney, Colón
• September
  • LAND – GOLD – REFORM: The Territorial Restructuring of Guatemala’s Highlands
  • Wilderswil declaration on Livestock diversity
  • Land Reform, Rural Social Relations and the Peasantry
  • PHILIPPINES: Killing of a peasant leader in Bukidnon
• July
  • We need agrofuel, not biofuel, right?
  • Ecuador: Peasant lands occupied in La Tranca, province of Los Ríos
  • Globalization, Productivity, and ’Protectionism’
  • Grain interview João Pedro Stedile
  • Soy nexus in South America
  • Biofuels: The Five Myths of the Agro-fuels Transition
  • Food Sovereignty is what Africa Needs
• June
  • Landless Rural Workers Confront Brazil’s Lula
  • Letter to the people from the 5th MST National Congress
  • Syngenta Threatens to Violently Expel the Family Farmers of the Via Campesina from the Free Land encampment
  • Ethanol Booms, Farmers Bust
• May
  • Peak Soil: Why cellulosic ethanol, biofuels are unsustainable and a threat to America
  • The ecological and social tragedy of crop-based biofuel production in the Americas
  • Allied with Brazilian Agribusiness, Syngenta Resists Governor’s Decree to Expropriate Site
  • Guatemala: Violent eviction of peasant families in Tecún Umán, San Marcos
  • Honduras: Forced eviction of peasant group, Santa Ana de Aguan/Yoro
  • REPORT: Police Open Fire on Peasants in Lombok, Indonesia
  • Development and Plunder in the Mekong Region
  • Land and Natural Resource Alienation in Cambodia
  • Forum in Mali: Building consensus
  • Free Trade vs. Small Farmers
• April
  • Food sovereignty: for a future without hunger
  • Politics of IFIs in Asia: Displacement and Resistance for Land and Water
  • Letter to president Lula
  • Why are we mobilized in Brazil as a whole?
  • Join us in the Global Campaign for the Defense of Autonomous Indigenous and Peasant Lands and Territories, in Chiapas, Mexico and the World!!!
  • Brazil: Cargill’s Amazon port shut down
  • Colonialism and Agroenergy
  • Comuniqué read by Comandanta Kelly, Sixth Commission, Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN).
• March
  • Chiapas: the New Face of War II
  • Chiapas: The New Face of the War I
  • Militant Brazilian Opposition to Bush-Lula Ethanol Accords
  • Nyeleni 2007, Unconventional Gathering
  • Declaration of Nyeleni
  • The Neoliberal Agrarian Model in Brazil
  • Guatemala: Peasant leader and his children murdered in Zacapa
• February
  • The Neoliberal Agrarian Model in Brazil
  • PHILIPPINES: Extra-judicial Killings; violence against the activists; collapse of rule of law
  • How the World Bank Maintains its Research Paradigm & Dominance
  • Leaseback Arrangements: Reversing Agrarian Reform Gains in the Philippines
  • Colombia’s Palm Oil Biodiesel Push
• January
  • PHILIPPINES: Farm leader wounded in shooting in front of his family
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  • What is LRAN?
  • About LRAN
  • Mission Statement

2006

• November
  • First LRAN book in english now avaliable
  • URGENT: Solidarity with Oaxaca
• June
  • Colombia: Casualties in Battle Against Free Trade Pact with US
  • Colombia - S.O.S. On behalf of the Indigenous Peoples: Nukak Makú, Guayabero, Sikuani, and Tucano
• March
  • Declaration of the "Land, Territory and Dignity" Forum, Porto Alegre, March 6-9, 2006 - For a New Agrarian Reform based on Food Sovereignty!

2005

• November
  • Declaration of Havana
• October
  • The Crime of the Latifundio
• September
  • Police Disrupt Peasant Gathering in Lombok: 37 Peasants Shot and Wounded. Indonesia, 18 September, 2005
• August
  • LPM 4 to testify in trial of acussed torture cop - 23 August, 2005
  • The Genetic Shell Game, or, Now you see it! Now you don’t! Industry exploits new study on transgenic maize in Mexico
• June
  • Venezuela Embarks on New Land Reform
• March
  • Europeans Resist Wolfowitz for World Bank- Lack of Consultation, War Role Criticized
• January
  • Donate to Via Campesina Tsunami Relief and Reconstruction Fund

2004

• December
  • How Northern Donors Promote Corruption: Tales From the New Mozambique
  • Democracy and its Simulacra
  • For a world without hunger: Agrarian reform now! Report on the World Forum on Agrarian Reform
• November
  • The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: The Land Policies of the World Bank
  • MST Asks for Urgent Action: Court of Justice of Para will sentence appeal in the lawsuit of the massacre in Eldorado dos Carajas
• August
  • Urgent Appeal for Support for Landless Tenants Movement
• July
  • Declaration of the Via Campesina’s 4th International Conference
  • Philippine Agrarian Reform Gives Land to the Wealthy
  • Land Reform Ridden with Loopholes
  • A Place in the Country
  • Agrarian Crisis Sparks Nationwide Strike
  • Indigenous Rights Attorney Assassinated in Venezuela
  • Colombia: Decades of War Over Land
• June
  • Brazil : Agrarian Reform for Informal Lands
• May
  • A Voice Unheard: Frustration takes its toll
• April
  • Peoples’ Caravan Delegates Arrested in Nepal
  • Land: Merchandise or Human Right?
  • Taboo in the Countryside,Thank You MST
  • LPM Members Arrested on Election Day
  • Peasants of the World Need. . .
• March
  • LPM Condemns the Detention of APF Activists
• January
  • The Politics of Land Reform in Southern Africa

2003

• November
  • Memorandum To President Thabo Mbeki
• October
  • I’m a Landless Peasant, I’ve Got Land but it’s in the Graveyard
  • Phillippine Farmers on Hunger Strike
  • To Fight for the Land and to Learn from the Struggle
  • Land Rights for Women Still Far From Becoming a Reality
  • TAKE ACTION-South African Organizer Kubheka Harassed by Land Owner
• September
  • Chavez Led Land Reform Enrages Large Landowners
• July
  • NLC Network Staff Reject NLC Director’s Dismissal
  • LPM reject NLC board’s efforts to crush landless struggle
  • NLC National Office: Letter to Partners
  • Peasants Assassinated in Honduras
  • Crisis in South Africa Land Reform Movement
  • For Stedile, Now Brazil has the Chance to Defeat the Latifundio
• June
  • Farmer is Face of Land Reform’s Success at 16
  • Brazil Activists Target Monsanto
• April
  • MST and Via Campesina Launch Campaign Against the Latifundio
  • The Right of Peasants to Produce Food is in Danger
• March
  • Stop Forced Removals & Evictions! Stop Privatisation!
• February
  • Benoni Ruling a Victory for South Africa’s 26-million Landless People

2002

• November
  • Two Models of Land Reform and Development

1996

• January
  • 40 Days of Protest Against Glamis Gold’s Guatemalan Mine End in Blood Shed