• 27 August 2012 | News | Land grabbing | Social activists at risk

  

  Resistance to El Quimbo Dam in Colombia

  Colombian Office Starts Probe into El Quimbo Dam

  The Association of People Affected by El Quimbo Dam (ASOQUIMBO) in Huila department, Colombia, will demand the State Council to immediately stop the project. The move is a result of a resolution issued on Wednesday by the country's General Comptroller's Office of opening a preliminary investigation into the project, after finding purported irregularities in the granting of an environmental license. Read more

• 22 August 2012 | Interviews | Land grabbing

  

  The People United

  Historical Demonstration of Rural Organizations of Brazil to Demand Agrarian Reform

  Wednesday 22 August was an unusual day in the capital city of Brazil: 10,000 peasants, indigenous, rural workers, quilombolas and fishermen marched from the ministries to the Presidential Palace, where President Dilma Roussef was, to demand urgent action towards an agrarian reform in the country. Read more

• 21 August 2012 | Special reports | Land grabbing

  

  Deepening the Food Crisis

  El Salvador: risks imposed by agrofuel push

  A bill to promote agrofuels in El Salvador threatens to deepen the food production crisis which is already seriously hit by droughts. Friends of the Earth El Salvador is warning about this “false solution” and its effects on the population. Read more

• 9 August 2012 | Special reports | Land grabbing

  

  No Agrotoxics

  Launching of “National Campaign Against Agrotoxics and For Life” in Cordoba, Argentina

  The displacement of peasant families from the Argentinean countryside takes place through the massive use of agrotoxics but also through violence and repression, said member of the National Peasant and Indigenous Movement (MNCI), Paulo Aranda. Read more

• 8 August 2012 | Interviews | Land grabbing

  

  For A New Agriculture Policy

  Interview with Stanka Becheva, Food and Agriculture Campaigner at Friends of the Earth Europe

  The European Commission is currently discussing proposals to modifiy the EU’s Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) for the period 2014-2020. The CAP is the framework under which European farmers operate and it is modified every seven years. This new policy will have repercussions not only for European farmers and crops but also for agriculture and farmers in third countries. Read more

• 1 August 2012 | Special reports | Land grabbing

  

  Historical Demand

  More Voices from the Peasants Day Celebrated in Chile

  The Agrarian Reform in Chile was a historical demand and its realization an unfinished process that cannot be separated from the struggle for democracy and social justice. Read more

• 28 May 2012 | Interviews | Land grabbing

  

  Irresponsible Pineapple

  Costa Rica: Communities demand ban to stop expansion of pineapple monoculture plantations

  In the past ten years, large extensions of land in Costa Rica have been destined to the intensive and corporate production of pineapple for export, covering ¼ of the arable lands of the Central American country, with serious consequences. Read more

• 14 May 2012 | News | Peoples’ Summit in Rio+20 | Land grabbing

  

  Africa United

  Friends of the Earth Africa held its Annual General Assembly: several issues were raised

  Organizations member of the environmentalist federation Friends of the Earth from 12 African countries demanded during the weekend the respect of the right to land in the continent as well as food and energy sovereignty. Read more

• 2 May 2012 | Videos | Land grabbing

  

  Devastation of Rights

  Video-testimony by Friends of the Earth International about land grabbing in Uganda

  John Muyiisha, a farmer of Kalangala, tells us his difficult experience linked to land grabbing in Uganda. One day he woke up and found several machines destroying his crops. He and his family had been living in that land for over 34 years. Watch video

• 19 April 2012 | News | Land grabbing | Social activists at risk

  

  Mobilizing to Oppose Land Grabbing

  International Day of Peasant Struggle: Over 12,000 hectares of land occupied in Honduras

  Thousands of Honduran peasants occupied on Tuesday, the International Day of Peasant Struggle, over 12,000 hectares of land in several departments (Cortés, Yoro, Santa Bárbara, Intibucá, El Paraíso, Choluteca, Comayagua and Francisco Morazán). Read more

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