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.
2 July 2013 | Interviews | Free Honduras | Land grabbing | Social activists at risk | 6th International Conference of La Via Campesina
“We must create dignity and equity conditions for peasant women all around the globe”, said Wendy Cruz to Real World Radio. She is the representative of Vía Campesina Central America. This Honduran leader shared with us her viewpoint on the situation of peasant women around the globe and about the challenge of gender equality in the fight for food sovereignty. Read more
20 June 2013 | Interviews | Land grabbing | 6th International Conference of La Via Campesina
We interviewed Africa Mthombeni, chairman of LPM (Landless People’s Movement), who participated in the VI International Conference of Via Campesina in Jakarta, Indonesia. He talked about the vision of the movement and the main issues concerning the future of South Africa. Read more
19 June 2013 | Interviews | Land grabbing | Social activists at risk | 6th International Conference of La Via Campesina
Deolinda Carrizo is a member of the Peasant Movement of Santiago del Estero (MOCASE), Argentina. Despite her young age (she is now 30), she has been a longtime activist in the struggle for access to land for peasants, against agribusiness and social injustice. Read more
11 June 2013 | Interviews | Land grabbing | 6th International Conference of La Via Campesina
Elizabeth Mpofu is the Chair of the Small Organic Farmer’s Forum of Zimbabwe, the country that will host the operational secretariat of Via Campesina, and is participating in the 4th Women’s Assembly of the peasant network. Read more
5 June 2013 | News | Land grabbing
Around 300 people displaced from Cañón del Cauca, Antioquia, Colombia, have been in a precarious situation of humanitarian emergency for three months since the State does not recognize them as displaced people, said Isabel Zuleta, of the Rios Vivos Movement, in an interview with Real World Radio. Read more
3 June 2013 | Community Radios | National Peace Congress in Colombia | Land grabbing
Last weekend, in Havana, the first series of agreements between the insurgent guerrilla of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) and the Colombian government was agreed in the framework of the dialogues that have been taking place in the Cuban capital for several months and that is linked with the agrarian issue. Read more
29 May 2013 | Testimonies | Land grabbing | Social activists at risk
The Honduran peasant movement denounced that three farms will be evicted after an arbitrary order by the Honduran Court of Justice in favor of landowners. Read more
23 May 2013 | Testimonies | Land grabbing
A champion of the right to water in the communities of Azuay province, Ecuador, Carlos Perez Guartambel faced criminal charges and direct violence in several occasions. Read more
21 May 2013 | Interviews | Land grabbing
A new research by Friends of the Earth International exposes the role of Wilmar and BIDCO corporations in a palm oil project being developed in Kalangala, on Bugala Island in Lake Victoria. The project is part of a government program supported by the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), a UN agency, and the World Bank. About 3,600 hectares of forest have already been destroyed, affecting the environment and local livelihoods. Read more
17 May 2013 | News | Land grabbing
Environmentalist organization COECOCEIBA – Friends of the Earth Costa Rica issued a statement on Tuesday against the signing of the Association Agreement between Central America and the European Union (AA). Read more
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