Full Coverage: Land

22.12.2004 The National Rural Employment Guarantee Bill 2004, that promises a minimum of 100 days of employment to poor families in rural areas in India has been introduced in the Parliament by the government.

17.12.2004 The world is facing a clash between two models of agriculture. One is controlled by massive global corporations and sustained by privatization and unbridled free trade. The other is based on family farming and prioritizes local, sustainable production and local knowledge. While the corporate-driven model has become dominant, the world's landless people and small farmers are beginning to mobilize, says Peter Rosset of the Center for the Study of Change in the Mexican Countryside.

16.12.2004 An indigenous community in Paraguay has been evicted from land they've been inhabiting since 1909 to accomodate a soybean farming cooperative, reports the Missionary Service News Agency.

09.12.2004 We are members of the “ Via Campesina International Organization”, which represents over 160 millions of peasants and indigenous peoples. We are participating in the World Forum on Agrarian Reform. We emphasise the importance of this forum in order to create a great alliance to improve and strengthen the way to Agrarian Reform, understanding this as a process to erase poverty and hunger, guarantee Food Sovereignty and develop our potential.