Features / Land grabbing
Denouncing and Resisting
In the context of the international campaign against land grabbing, Real World Radio offers this special section including testimonies of the resistance and the effects of this global process that goes against the rights of communities and the sovereignty of the countries.
This section will have the support of Grain through www.farmlandgrab.org, which includes interviews and reports about the global push for buying or renting crop lands in foreign countries as a strategy to ensure the supply of basic food or just as a way to make money.
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13 April 2012 | Interviews | Land grabbing
Whose Land?
The land issue at the Peoples’ Summit
00:0000:00 | 00:00Nearly 1,500 people participated in the Peoples' Summit opening act on Thursday in Cartagena, Colombia. The Peoples' Summit is the alternative to the 6th Summit of the Americas to be held in the same city next weekend, with the participation of the heads of state of over 30 countries of the continent. Read more
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29 March 2012 | Chronicles | Peoples’ Summit in Rio+20 | 3rd Special Conference for Food Sovereignty | Land grabbing
Real Solution
Declaration of the 3rd Special Conference for Food Sovereignty, Rights and Life
00:0000:00 | 00:00On Thursday 29th, the delegation of Social Movements will read a summary of the Declaration after the 3rd Special Conference for Food Sovereignty. The declaration strongly reaffirms Food Sovereignty as a real solution to the food, climate and human rights crises that are affecting the region and the world. Read more
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28 March 2012 | Interviews | 3rd Special Conference for Food Sovereignty | Land grabbing
Worse than the Earthquake
Interview with Fran Saint Jean of the Haitian Platform for Alternative Development
00:0000:00 | 00:00Haiti, the Caribbean country that was hit by an earthquake in 2010 destroying most of the infrastructure and decimating the population and economy, is now the poorest country in the world. And in addition it faces not only the challenge of reconstruction, but also the challenge of the military, transnational and NGO occupation which has taken control by substituting the government and civil society organizations. Read more
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6 March 2012 | News | Peoples’ Summit in Rio+20 | 3rd Special Conference for Food Sovereignty | Land grabbing
Building an Alternative
Conference on agrarian reform and food sovereignty in Buenos Aires
00:0000:00 | 00:00Social movements and organizations of Latin America and the Caribbean will meet in Buenos Aires from March 22-25 for the 3rd Special Conference for Food Sovereignty, which will take place before the 31st Regional Conference of the FAO (Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations). Read more
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21 November 2011 | Interviews | Conference against land grabbing in Mali | Land grabbing
Action Time
Interview with Thomas Ouana, from Mali against land grabbing
00:0000:00 | 00:00The International Peasant Conference taking place in Mali against land grabbing aims to build a concrete action plan to stop this phenomenon, said Thomas Ouana, from the National Union of Mozambican Peasant Farmers (UNAC) in an interview with Real World Radio. Read more
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12 October 2011 | Chronicles | Negotiations on the Guidelines on Responsible Governance | Land grabbing
Dakar closer to Rome
Social Movements submitted Dakar Appeal on land grabs to FAO
00:0000:00 | 00:00On Tuesday 11 October, when the inter-governmental talks with civil society representatives were resumed, the “Dakar Appeal” against the land grab was read by the Senegalese delegate. Read more
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