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.
9 September 2014 | Interviews | Land grabbing
Corrientes is the Argentinean province with the largest surface of forestry monoculture plantations. The neoliberal policies of the 1990s and the legal framework and government support that continues to promote forestry plantations lead to a “legion of trees” to grow at a pace of 5,000 hectares a month. Read more
21 August 2014 | Testimonies | Land grabbing | Social activists at risk
An indigenous community of Monte Olivo, in Coban, Guatemala, provided the details of police brutality, including house raids, for resisting Hidro Santa Rita dam, in a press conference held this week. Read more
15 August 2014 | Testimonies | Financialization of nature | Land grabbing
A new rural mobilization is building up in Colombia by the organizations that make up the Agrarian Summit, as the result of the Santos’ administration’s failure to comply with the agreements reached. Read more
16 July 2014 | News | Land grabbing | Social activists at risk
Ten years ago, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) declared the “Apartheid Wall” built in Palestinian Occupied Territories illegal. Meanwhile, the death toll of a new military attack against the Palestinian people has already reached 170. The destruction of family homes and public infrastructure in Gaza has inspired international solidarity and calls by the international community to stop what might be considered a massacre. Read more
6 June 2014 | Interviews | Financialization of nature | Land grabbing
Militarization in Latin America is usually linked to the provision of guarantees for the entrance of corporate actors into the region and has implied processes of community displacements against their ways of living and livelihoods. This phenomenon was analyzed by Nieves Capote, member of Otros Mundos Chiapas – Friends of the Earth Mexico, in an interview with Real World Radio. Read more
27 May 2014 | Interviews | Free Honduras | Land grabbing
On May 20, leaders of the Garifuna community of Triunfo de la Cruz, department of Atlanta, Honduras, together with members of the Organización Fraternal Negra Hondureña (OFRANEH) attended a hearing at the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) where they denounced violations of their human and territorial rights. Read more
27 May 2014 | Interviews | Free Honduras | Land grabbing | Social activists at risk
It was supposed to be a regular day of work for the Honduran peasant communities of San Isidro, El Despertar and La Trinidad farms, located by the Aguan River, in Trujillo municipality, Colon. After recovering their lands two years ago, the peasants produce several crops, such as maize and bananas, in addition to developing a livestock project. In the morning of May 21, the peasant families were surprised with a violent eviction by 300 members of the Xatruch III Operative and the Honduran National Police. Read more
14 May 2014 | Interviews | Colombia: National Agrarian Summit | Land grabbing | Social activists at risk
Two weeks after the Agrarian Peasant Summit went on strike in Colombia and as the protest measure gets stronger, the 11 organizations that make up said Summit reached their first victory since they started a new stage in the struggle for the Colombian countryside in 2013 with the first National Agrarian and Peoples´ Strike. Read more
12 May 2014 | Interviews | Land grabbing
In 2009, the governments of Brazil, Japan and Mozambique signed an agreement to implement the so-called Cooperation for the Agricultural Development of the Tropical Savannah in Mozambique (Pro SAVANA). The Program has been promoted by the governments as a sustainable agriculture development project for the region. However, Mozambican organizations and movements, in addition to denouncing a “total lack of transparency, consultation and public participation”, are stating that the project threatens biodiversity, the lives of millions of peasants and consequently the production and food sovereignty of the country. Read more
6 May 2014 | Interviews | Land grabbing | Social activists at risk
Liberia, a country located in the West coast of Africa has been hit by two civil wars (one in 1989 and the most recent one in 1999). Conflicts have left the country generally weakened and particularly in terms of food sovereignty. Far from armed conflicts, Liberians are now facing a land grabbing process that is further threatening their ability to produce their own food. As a response to this advance, a community in Grand Bassa county managed to successfully resist the encroachment of a British palm oil company, ensuring their right to the territory and their way of living. Read more
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