Land, being the indispensable basis for agricultural production – in spite of what promoters of novel foods claim – is an unequally distributed resource that is currently degrading at a high rate, because of agricultural technologies used. Unless a remedy is found to this negative trend, this process will threaten sustainability of food production in the long run.
Opinion: Land Grabs Squeeze Rural Poor Worldwide (July 2024)
More articles on land published by hungerexplained.org
14 March 2021 – Urban Expansion and Agricultural Land. Should we agree to sacrifice workers’ gardens in Aubervilliers on the altar of the 2024 Paris Olympics? At global level, it is expected that the equivalent of three times the total area of land used for agriculture in the UK will have been sacrificed by 2030. [read]
4 May 2019 – The United Nations warn us: we must stop plundering natural resources – To double the gross domestic product since 1970 and get billions of people out of poverty, humankind has adopted a devastating and unsustainable development model that is diametrically opposed to the sustainable development path it has committed to follow. [read]
April 2019 – Opinions: World Bank dispossessing rural poor by Jomo Kwame Sundaram and Anis Chowdhury. By promoting private investment in agriculture, the World Bank commodifies land and accelerates the dispossession of family farmers of their main source of livelihood. [read]
September 2018 – The global food crunch: myth or reality? A review of evidence on what matters for food production to help readers to make their opinion on this critical issue. [read]
September 2018 – Facts and figures on world malnutrition – World malnutrion continues to rise: the number of undernourished people is still on the increase and overeating, with its corollaries, overweight and obesity, progress everywhere in the world. [read]
25 August 2016 – European Companies and Land Grabbing: evidence of human rights violation – A study commissioned by the European Parliament demonstrates that involvement of EU-based companies in land grabbing and violations of human rights have been grossly underestimated. [read]
8 February 2015 – The New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition in Africa: focus on land and seeds – A report prepared by GRAIN and AFSA provides details on actions taken by the New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition of the G8 in the area of land and seeds in Africa. [read]
15 January 2014 – In India, a first ‘‘environmental referendum’’ saves the Dongria Kondh – The Indian authorities cancel a mining project that threatened the Dongria Kondh tribe in Odisha. [read]
January 2013 – Exclusion – [read]