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News - Land Rights

An impossible dream come true

12th Jun 2014
When Carlos Mareco, a leader of the Sawhoyamaxa indigenous community, heard the news that after a two decade long painful legal battle, his people will be able to return to their ancestral lands, he couldn’t help but shed a tear. (María José Eva Parada / Amnesty International

Langrabbing is bad, it must be stopped

4th Jun 2014
It is incredible that respectable leaders, including those in CCM and the government, should collude with village leaders to usurp land from poor subsistence peasants in the rural drought-prone district. (Daily News)

Can Pepsi and Coke end land grabs for sugar?

3rd Jun 2014
Since Oxfam reported sugar land conflicts last year, two big buyers – Coca-Cola and PepsiCo – have stepped in with new supplier policies. But they have a long way to go. (The Guardian)

Tipping the scale: how a political economist could save the world’s forests

29th May 2014
Can Elinor Ostrom’s revolutionary ideas halt climate change, improve people’s livelihoods, and save the world’s forests? (Wendee Nicole / Mongabay)

Hungry for land: small farmers feed the world with less than a quarter of all farmland

28th May 2014
It is commonly heard today that small farmers produce most of the world's food. But how many of us realise that they are doing this with less than a quarter of the world's farmland, and that even this meagre share is shrinking fast? (GRAIN)

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