May, 2017 With business self-regulation and corporate social responsibility schemes proving to be insufficient for addressing land grabbing-related human rights issues, a new publication points to the obligation of the EU and its Member States to implement a set of… Read More »Land Grabbing and Human Rights: The Role of the EU Abroad
June 2016 GRAIN released in June its new report on global framland grab with the new 2016 dataset. GRAIN “is a small international non-profit organisation that works to support small farmers and social movements in their struggles for community-controlled and… Read More »The global farmland grab in 2016: How big, how bad?
June 2016 In 2012, the United Nations Committee on World Food Security officially endorsed the Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests in the Context of National Food Security. Since their adoption, various international organisations… Read More »People’s Manual on the Guidelines on the Governance of Land
2006 The International Conference on Agrarian Reform and Rural Development (ICARRD) in Porto Alegre 7-10 March 2006 was organized jointly by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nation and the Government of Brazil to explore new development opportunities to… Read More »Final declaration of the International Conference on Agrarian Reform and Rural Development
2007 The Proposal paper on land policies and agrarian reforms is based on discussions conducted by aGter with researchers, development workers and representatives of farmers’ organisations. This paper was designed to help small farmers’ organisations and people working on this… Read More »Land policies and agrarian reforms