From October 10 – 14, representatives from social movements will go to Rome for the final negotiations towards the approval of the Guidelines that will regulate the use and tenure of land and other natural resources. Real World Radio will be present to reflect the situation of communities around the world resisting land grabbing and the privatization of common natural goods.
12 October 2011 | Chronicles | Negotiations on the Guidelines on Responsible Governance
Is a future without youth in the countryside conceivable? The growing urbanization of the youngest sectors of society answers to the fact that life in the rural areas has become exclusive for young peasants as a result of “farming without farmers”, and also of agribusiness and massive land grabbing. Read more
12 October 2011 | Chronicles | Negotiations on the Guidelines on Responsible Governance | Land grabbing
On Tuesday 11 October, when the inter-governmental talks with civil society representatives were resumed, the “Dakar Appeal” against the land grab was read by the Senegalese delegate. Read more
12 October 2011 | Interviews | Negotiations on the Guidelines on Responsible Governance
Jeanne Verlinden, representative of La Via Campesina, explained on Wednesday morning the main themes addressed by the FAO Guidelines on land tenure and the use of other natural resources. Read more
12 October 2011 | Interviews | Negotiations on the Guidelines on Responsible Governance
Real World Radio interviewed Claudia Carcamo of Honduras and Luis Alonso Moran of El Salvador on their expectations about the Guidelines on land tenure and their potential effects on the peasant and indigenous population. Read more
11 October 2011 | Interviews | Negotiations on the Guidelines on Responsible Governance
Ugandan fisher woman Rehema Bavuma Namaganda from the World Forum of Fish Harvesters ando Fish Workers (WFF), is part of the international delegation that is working from the FAO headquarters in Rome, in the process of coming up with the final Guidelines that will ensure the permanence of fisherfolks in their original land. Read more
11 October 2011 | Interviews | Negotiations on the Guidelines on Responsible Governance
The representative of indigenous peoples of the Americas said in Tuesday’s demonstration outside the FAO headquarters that after 519 years since the European colonization in America, the communities are still unprotected in their rights to land. Read more
11 October 2011 | News | Negotiations on the Guidelines on Responsible Governance
Peasant, indigenous, pastoralists and fisherfolk representatives held a demonstration outside the FAO headquarters in Rome, Italy, to send a clear message to the governments: land grabbing must be stopped in order to tackle the food crisis and the persistent increase in prices. Read more
10 October 2011 | Interviews | Negotiations on the Guidelines on Responsible Governance
Why would a fisherman decide to leave his boat to participate instead in long negotiations with professional diplomats in Rome? Why does a peasant woman travel across the world from her village in Asia to discuss the Guidelines on land tenure and water resources in a language she does not speak? Read more
10 October 2011 | Chronicles | Negotiations on the Guidelines on Responsible Governance
The only effective way to make official speeches that claim to seek the protection of land, water and other natural resources come true, is by securing the human rights of rural communities, indigenous peoples, small-scale farmers, especially women instead of focusing on corporate-business profits. Read more
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