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.
10 November 2016 | Interviews | Monitoring transnationals | Land grabbing | Social activists at risk
"There are over 2000 high schools currently occupied by students, over 200 university units on strike, state workers also on strike. The struggle is growing in our country. We are building the Popular Brazil Front (together with other social movements) and we are coordinating this process. That´s why we are a target and a process of repression has been opened to try to discourage the MST". Read more
7 November 2016 | Interviews | Monitoring transnationals | Land grabbing | Week of Mobilization in Geneva
Lack of information and illiteracy suffered by local communities in Mozambique are deepened and exploited by big transnational corporations in order to take over lands and water, denounced the activist of the World March of Women in that country, Suzete Marques. Read more
7 November 2016 | Interviews | Monitoring transnationals | Land grabbing | Week of Mobilization in Geneva
WALHI – Friends of the Earth Indonesia submitted to the Intergovernmental Working Group of the UN Human Rights Council that is negotiating a binding treaty on transnational corporations and human rights violations, the case of land and forest fires caused in the country by the production of palm oil. 23 people died in 2015 suffering from serious respiratory infections and 40 million people have been affected in total by the fires. Read more
22 October 2016 | Interviews | Monitoring transnationals | Land grabbing | Social activists at risk | Week of Mobilization in Geneva
Maren Mantovani, international coordinator of the Palestinian and global campaign “Stop the Wall”, considers that a binding treaty on human rights violations perpetrated by transnational corporations is key. Read more
20 September 2016 | Interviews | Financialization of nature | Land grabbing
Forests and Biodiversity Program Co-coordinator at Friends of the Earth International, Nele Mariën, was interviewed by Real World Radio on the day before the celebration of the International Day of Struggle against Monoculture Tree Plantations. The activist analyzed the main consequences of large-scale tree plantations, the risks of their growth facilitated by the implications of the Paris Climate Agreement and the “negative emission” proposals, and even the potential impact of the aviation sector with its emission offsetting initiative through the REDD mechanism. Read more
14 September 2016 | Interviews | Land grabbing
Fracking is an extractive method that started to be implemented in the US over a decade ago to exploit hydrocarbons contained in unconventional deposits. What used to be non-profitable to exploit, could become profitable due to the application of a new extraction method. But there is evidence that the use of this technology has had serious consequences on the health of the population, the quality of water in aquifers, ecosystem balance and the life of the surrounding fauna. Read more
22 August 2016 | Interviews | Land grabbing
The successful strategies of Nigerian women, at local, national and global level, to reclaim their land back from corporations like Okomu Oil Palms Plc (Socfin Group) and Iyayi Group (rubber plantation company), rely on their knowledge about their rights and how and why they are disproportionally affected by corporate projects in the context of the patriarchal society. And also, on their conviction that the organization of women struggles can challenge corporate power and the corporate capture of governments, policies and territories. Read more
18 August 2016 | Interviews | Land grabbing
Friends of the Earth Europe launched a new report, titled “The true cost of consumption: the EU’s land footprint”, which highlights that in 2010 the amount of land used to satisfy the block’s consumption, solely of agricultural goods and services, amounted to 269 million hectares. “Almost 40% of this land is outside Europe, an area the size of Italy and France combined”, said Friends of the Earth Europe in its web site. Read more
9 August 2016 | News | Land grabbing | Social activists at risk
The Human Rights Meeting of La Vía Campesina International will take place from August 18-20 at the Florestan Fernandes National School, in Guararema municipality, São Paulo. Read more
2 August 2016 | Interviews | Land grabbing
The new Southern Africa Campaign to Dismantle Corporate Power is organizing the Peoples’ Tribunal on Transnational Corporations, which is going to be held in the Bosco Skills Centre, in Manzini, Swaziland, on August 16th and 17th. Read more
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