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Landgrab resource page (¡Se adueñan de la tierra! | L'accaparement des terres)
In October 2008, GRAIN released a report on the new trend in landgrabbing spurred on by the food and financial crises. A large number of governments and corporations are out scouring the globe right now in search of productive farmland to buy or to lease for offshore food production. For governments, like those of the Gulf States or China, such "farming abroad" schemes are meant to provide for their own country's food security, over a longterm period. Corporations, on the other hand, are looking for shorter term payoffs after the recent meltdown of financial markets. In all cases, control over land is being handed over to foreign investors who will produce food for export. Most of this new landgrabbing is taking place in Africa and Asia, but also in fertile regions of Eastern Europe and Latin America. This page pulls together some additional resource material. If you would like to post information about your intiative here, contact us at landgrab (at) grain.org. Daily updates Food crisis and the global land grab blog: Daily news clippings in (mostly) English, French and Spanish. GRAIN initiated this blog, but anyone is welcome to get involved. You can subscribe to the RSS feed to follow the latest posts. You can also comment freely on any news report. GRAIN materials "GRAIN statement at the joint GRAIN-La Via Campesina media briefing", GRAIN, November 2009 "Farmers and social movements say no to land grabbing", Invitation to a press conference and a symbolic action, GRAIN and Via Campesina, November 2009 "The new farm owners", Against the grain, October 2009 "CGIAR joins global farmland grab", Against the grain, September 2009 "Mauritius leads land grabs for rice in Mozambique", Hybrid rice blog, September 2009, http://www.grain.org/hybridrice/?lid=221 "Rice land grabs undermine food sovereignty in Africa", Against the grain, January 2009. (Libya is getting hold of riceland in Mali through its sovereign wealth fund) "Grabbing land for food", Seedling, January 2009. (A summary of the October 2008 report) GRAIN, "Korean women farmers on the Daewoo/Madagascar land deal", interview with Han Young Me, Chief of Policy, Korean Women Peasants Association, Dae-gu, South Korea, 4 December 2008. (Video and transcript, English and French subtitltes) "Seized: The 2008 land grab for food and financial security", briefing, October 2008 (GRAIN's original 10-page report, available in English, French and Spanish, Arabic and Bahasa Indonesia). The Annex to this briefing is a table with over 100 cases of land grabbing for offshore food production as presented in this report. Other groups working on the issue Collectif pour la Défense des Terres Malgaches / Malagasy Land Defense Collective: A new collective working to defend Madagascar against landgrab arrangements such as the Daewoo-Madagascar deal FIAN: FoodFirst Information and Action Network, the international human rights organisation, is doing an action research on landgrabbing for food and biofuel production in Africa. Contact Sofia Monsalves for more information. IIED: The International Institute for Environment and Development has already done research on landgrabbing for biofuels and is doing more on landgrabbing for food production. Contact Lorenzo Cotela for more information. ILC: The International Land Coalition, whose members range from the World Bank to small farmers' organisations, is conducting a major study on "commercial pressures on land", including the recent landgrabbing trend for food or agrofuels production. Contact the secretariat for more information. Actions, events and initiatives Asian Peasant Coalition & International League of Peoples’ Struggle start 5 month Asia-wide Peasants' Caravan for Land & Livelihood - Peuples Solidaires, la Confédération Paysanne, ActionAid and FNAB are organising an international forum on access to land in Montreuil, the outskirts of Paris, on 18-19 April 2009. 3D Three organised a seminar in collaboration with the Project on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights at the Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights on "The Global Land Grab: A Human Rights Approach". The seminar was held on 16 May 2009 at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva. Contact Zoe Goodman for more information. The Malagasy Land Defense Collective, Friends of the Earth and Peuples Solidaires are running a protest campaign against the Daewoo-Madagascar landgrab deal until 1 June 2009. Materials from the 9th Brussels Development Briefing, organised by the European Commission and the EU-ACP Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA), on land access on 25 February 2009 are online. Includes video testimonies (from farmers, researchers, civil servants, etc), powerpoint presentations, background documents and a report. Materials from a World Bank seminar on "Large Scale Investments in Land: Déjà vu or New Development Opportunity?", Washington DC, 2 March 2009.
Videos and other presentation from a World Bank meeting on land governance, where the central topic was reshaping markets for large scale land acquisition in developing countries, held in Washington DC in 9-10 March 2009 are online. Speakers came from the private sector, government and research institutes. Other materials Oakland Institute, The Great Land Grab: Rush for World’s Farmland Threatens Food Security for the Poor, October 2009, http://www.oaklandinstitute.org/?q=node/view/526 Cotula, L., Vermeulen, S., Leonard, R. and Keeley, J., 2009, "Land grab or development opportunity? Agricultural investment and international land deals in Africa", IIED/FAO/IFAD, London/Rome. A Thirst for Distant Lands: Foreign investment in agricultural land and water |
• Biodiversity rights legislation (BRL) • Bilateral deals with TRIPS plus • FAO • Multimedia - photos | videos • 中国语文的文章
• L'accaparement des terres - quoi de neuf?  • Bilaterals.org: tout ne se négocie pas à l'OMC  |
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Imprimer
A “Five–month Asia-wide Peasants’ Caravan for Land and Livelihood” started on July 21 until November 2009 in ten countries in Asia such as Bangladesh, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Mongolia, Nepal, Pakistan, Philippines, Thailand and Sri Lanka. The theme of the Peasants’ Caravan is “Stop Global Land Grabbing! Struggle for Genuine Agrarian Reform and Peoples’ Food Sovereignty.” 
