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- Banacol: A company implicated paramilitarism and land grabbing in Curvarado and Jiguamiando
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
This study focuses on the International Banacol Marketing Corporation’s actions in the Afro-Colombian and Mestizo communities’ collective territories of Curvaradó and Jiguamiandó in the Lower Atrato region of Chocó, Colombia.
- Capitalism and Underdevelopment in Latin America
Historical Studies of Chile and Brazil
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1969
The four essays in this book offer a sweeping reinterpretation of Latin American history as an aspect of the world-wide spread of capitalism in its commercial and industrial phases.
- A Citizen's Guide to City Politics
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1972
- Commercial Pressures on Land
Resource Type: Website
A portal created by the International Land Coalition informing evidence based debate on large scale land-based investments and their alternatives.
- Half of U.S. Farmland Being Eyed by Private Equity
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
An estimated 400 million acres of farmland in the United States will likely change hands over the coming two decades as older farmers retire, even as new evidence indicates this land is being strongly pursued by private equity investors. In the long term, this dynamic could speed up the already fast-consolidating U.S. food industry, with broad ramifications for both human and environmental health.
- A History of Canadian Wealth
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1972
Myers lays bare the corruption, swindling, land deals, and bribery that are at the basis of Canadian history. This is Canada's past seen through the eyes of a muckraker.
- How food and water are driving a 21st-century African land grab
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2010
- How Human Rights Watch Covers for Companies in Colombia
Down Where the Death Squads Live
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
Human Rights Watch fails to name the names in its recent report on Colombia entitled, “The Risk of Returning Home, Violence and Threats against Displaced People Reclaiming Land in Colombia.” And, this is much to HRW’s discredit.
- How not to grow a new town
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
For years the governments of Peru, and the municipality of Lima, had a working deal with rural migrants who flocked to the city: we'll plan the place, you build it, amenities will arrive. Then came the cheap neoliberal substitute of granting land titles -- and the speculation began.
- Indian agribusiness sets sights on land in east Africa
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2011
Indian investors plan to spend $2.5bn on acquiring vast tracts of cheap farming land in Ethiopia, Tanzania and Uganda.
- Is Israel an Apartheid State?
Rhetoric or Reality? Summary of a Legal Study by the Human Sciences Research council of South Africa
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2010
Do Israel's practices in occupied Palestinian territory, namely the West Bank, East Jerusalem and Gaza, amount to the crimes of colonialism and apartheid under international law?
- Land concentration, land grabbing and people's struggles in Europe
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
The hidden scandal of how a few big private business entities have gained control of ever-greater areas of European land. How these land elites have been actively supported by a huge injection of public funds -- at a time when all other public funding is being subjected to massive cuts.
- The Land Grabbers
The New Fight over Who Owns the Earth
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2012
How Wall Street, Chinese billionaires, oil sheikhs, and agribusiness are buying up huge tracts of land in a hungry, crowded world.
- Nature Conservancy of Canada
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- No Land No Food No Life
Resource Type: Film/Video
Published: 2013
A film which explores sustainable small scale agriculture and the urgent call for an end to corporate global land grabs. This feature length documentary gives voice to those directly affected by combining personal stories, and vérite footage of communities fighting to retain control of their land.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - January 29, 2015
Land seizures and land take-overs
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 2015
This issue of Other Voices focuses on the issue of land seizures and land take-overs. Also included: Greece's solidarity movement, and the challenges and opportunities it faces after the election of a Syrizia government. From the archives, there are interviews about the 1974 occupation of Anicinabe Park, an article about anti-dicrimination fighter Viola Desmond, and the publication, in 1929, of All Quiet on the Western Front.
- Our Land, Our Lives
Time Out On The Global Land Rush
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
In the past decade an area of land eight times the size of the UK has been sold off globally as land sales rapidly accelerate. This land could feed a billion people equivalent to the number of people who go to bed hungry each night. In poor countries, foreign investors have been buying an area of land the size of London every six days. With food prices spiking for the third time in four years, interest in land could accelerate again as rich countries try to secure their food supplies and investors see land as a good long-term bet.
- A People's History of the United States
1492 - Present
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2003
Zinn's history includes those most ignored by typical American textbook history, including Indians, blacks, women and workers.
- Twiga Farm: The story of a Kenyan land grab
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
On Tuesday, September 23, 2014, the residents of Twiga Farm marched through the streets of Nairobi to hand in a petition to the National Assembly. Their demand was an investigation in the unlawful eviction from their lands, the Twiga Farm, and recognition of their right to return.
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