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 December 2017 | Interviews | Monitoring transnationals | Land grabbing | Social activists at risk
“We remain deeply saddened and greatly alarmed by the continuing attacks against environmental activists, defenders of territories, land rights' advocates, indigenous community leaders”, said on Sunday, Human Rights Day, the coordinator of Friends of the Earth Asia Pacific Environmental Human Rights Defenders Project, Romel de Vera. Read more
7 November 2017 | Interviews | Monitoring transnationals | Third round of UN negotiations for a binding treaty on transnational corporations and human rights | Land grabbing | Social activists at risk
Giant agribusiness project “ProSavana” and the Mphanda Nkuwa dam on the Zambezi River, both of them in Mozambique, were denounced in Geneva, Switzerland, in the framework of the UN negotiations for a binding treaty on transnational corporations and human rights. Read more
26 October 2017 | Videos | Monitoring transnationals | Third round of UN negotiations for a binding treaty on transnational corporations and human rights | Land grabbing
Approximately 40 million people were affected by the intentional fires in 2 million hectares of lands and forests in Indonesia in 2015 to prepare the lands for palm oil production. 23 people died, most of them children, due to respiratory infections. Watch video
26 May 2017 | Videos | Monitoring transnationals | Land grabbing
Twenty-three people died in 2015 alone for breathing infections caused by the smoke of peatland and forest fires in five provinces of Indonesia that were started to clean lands for oil palm and tree plantations to produce cellulose pulp and paper. Approximately 60 million people have been affected in total. Watch video
17 February 2017 | News | Monitoring transnationals | Land grabbing
The Mexican government is encouraging the development of an export-oriented agriculture that benefits big companies such as Monsanto and individual producers with large extensions of lands, with an agrarian reform that aims to accelerate the communal land privatization process, warns Otros Mundos Chiapas – Friends of the Earth Mexico. Read more
16 February 2017 | News | Land grabbing
Inequality rates in Uganda haven´t changed significantly in the past years, despite it being one of the economies that has grown most rapidly in the world. Uganda is one of the countries with the highest numbers of people living in rural areas (84%) in the world, and when observing what kind of development has caused some numbers in the economy to change, it is possible to understand why issues such as inequality remain. Read more
10 February 2017 | News | Land grabbing
With approximately 7 million inhabitants, Togo is one of the smallest countries in the African continent. Almost half of the population works as farmers. Land access problems, especially for women and young people, growing pressure on the land in some areas and the subsequent degradation of the soil fertility, in addition to difficulties in accessing credits, are some of the problems experienced by peasants in the country. Read more
24 November 2016 | News | Land grabbing
Guatemala has not escaped the exponential advance of monoculture plantations in Latin America in the past decades. Their impacts in terms of Food Sovereignty are being fought in the country through the capacity building and organization of peasant and indigenous communities, with an increasing focus on agroecology. Read more
17 November 2016 | Interviews | Land grabbing
In the past years, in Costa Rica, there has been an expansion of export-oriented agriculture, with a significant development of pineapple, African palm, banana and coffee monoculture plantations. In the same period the surface area planted with food crops that are the sustenance of the country, such as rice, beans and corn has been "radically reduced", according to Mariana Porras, member of Coecoceiba - Friends of the Earth Costa Rica in an interview with Real World Radio. Read more
15 November 2016 | Videos | Monitoring transnationals | Land grabbing
From an ecological perspective, community management refers to the relationship and interdependence among all elements of the ecosystem to maintain a stable and balanced condition (homeostasis). Thus, sustainability and the preservation of environmental conditions are the main factors that must be looked after in order to build the productive economy of local communities. Watch video
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