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.
5 March 2016 | News | Criminalization of COPINH | Free Honduras | Land grabbing | Social activists at risk | Berta lives on!
Thursday, March 3, 2016 - La Esperanza, Intibucá, Honduras Our friend, Berta Cáceres, founder and General Coordinator of the Council of Indigenous and Popular Organizations of Honduras, COPINH, and Gustavo Castro Soto, of Otros Mundos AC/ Friends of the Earth Mexico, the Mexican Network of People Affected by Mining (REMA) and the Meso American Movement against the Mining Extractive Model (M4) were attacked by gunmen, which caused Berta´s death and seriously injured Gustavo. The assault took place inside Berta's home. A group of armed men entered through the back door and shot both of our colleagues. Read more
25 January 2016 | Interviews | Land grabbing | Educación Rural, Agroecología y Pueblos del Campo
As part of the International Seminar "Rural Education, Agroecology and Peoples of the Countryside" taking place in Santiago, Chile, with the National Association of Rural and Indigenous Women of Chile, we interviewed Lirayén Reyes, a leader of the association for their youth sector. Read more
8 December 2015 | Interviews | UN Climate Change COP 21 | Land grabbing | Social activists at risk
"We decided to come and defend the land, the territory and the bodies of women also here in Paris", said Peruvian feminist Rosa Guillen of the World March of Women in the framework of the activities parallel to the UN COP 21 on climate change. Read more
5 December 2015 | Videos | UN Climate Change COP 21 | Land grabbing
Activists of WALHI – Friends of the Earth Indonesia held on Friday an action inside the official UN Climate Change COP negotiations in Paris, France, to expose the causes of the fires that have been hitting the Asian country in the past months. Watch video
21 October 2015 | News | Victims of climate change | Free Honduras | Land grabbing
The Black Fraternal Organization of Honduras (OFRANEH) was awarded the Food Sovereignty Prize 2015 by the US Food Sovereignty Alliance, which recognizes the work of grassroots activists who work for a more democratic food system. Read more
21 April 2015 | News | Financialization of nature | 6th CLOC-Via Campesina Continental Congress | Land grabbing
On the International Day of Peasant Struggles,after a march through the streets of Buenos Aires,from the US Embassy, an imperialistic symbol, to the Argentinean Rural Association, a symbol of agribusiness in the country, the organizers of the 6th Congress of the Latin American Coordination of Countryside Organizations (CLOC-Via Campesina), shared the final statement, which you can read below. The document is a result of eight days of debates and was read by representatives of the Youth Assembly of CLOC. Read more
15 April 2015 | Interviews | Land grabbing | Social activists at risk
Representatives of 27 indigenous qom, pilagá, wichí and nivaclé communities who live in Formosa Province, Argentina, have been camping since February 14 in Buenos Aires downtown to demand once again the respect of their rights and lands. Read more
8 April 2015 | Videos | Land grabbing
La Via Campesina, the World March of Women and Friends of the Earth International have reinforced their joint struggle against transnational corporations, accusing them of taking over lands, natural resources and violating women rights, and ratified the need to "dismantle" the power of large companies and their "architecture of impunity". Watch video
13 March 2015 | Growing Voices | Land grabbing
In this first program of Growing Voices we dig deeper into the Wilmar International´s business, one of the largest palm oil corporations in the world. We look closer at the case of Kalangala in Uganda, where over one-hundred Ugandan small-scale farmers have gotten their land grabbed and been evicted by Oil Palm Uganda Limited, a subsidiary of Bidco Uganda Ltd, which is a venture co-owned by Wilmar International. Read more
19 December 2014 | Special reports | Victims of climate change | Financialization of nature | Land grabbing | COP 20 - Lima
While the UN congratulates itself for having “successfully” concluded the 20th Conference of the Parties on Climate Change (COP 20) with a “draft agreement and concrete advances”, the majority of the social movements demanding climate justice in Lima expressed their deep concern over the results of the two weeks of official talks, not due to the lack of advance, but because of the fact that the talks advanced in the opposite direction of the necessary solutions proposed by the movements. Many reasons can explain these fateful outcomes, but two of them are very clear: the corporate capture of the UN and the lack of attention provided by this space to the proposals and demands of the social movements that every year demand strong actions to change a system that among other things is generating the climate crisis. Read more
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