Farming Mattters | 27.4 | December 2011
This issue of Farming Matters on a topic that is central to all small-scale farmers: land. Competition for land and power, and particularly the global increase of large scale land acquisitions, cause contestations about which land is rightfully owned and used by whom.
This edition explores a range of responses by different stakeholders to land use in the face of an intensifying struggle for land. Using examples from all over the world, the land issue shows how both farmers’ initiatives and good land governance can have a positive impact on what seems to be an growing problem worldwide.
FEATURED
Global
Brazil
Gaining control : “Re-peasantisation” in Araponga by Ana Paula Teixeira de Campos, Leonardo van den Berg, Fábio Faria Mendes
Nicaraqua
Global
Uganda
Indonesia
TABLE OF CONTENT
Opinion: Food scarcity à la Wall Street by Eric Holt-Giménez
Mind! New in print by ILEIA
What shade of green will Rio+20 provide by Laura Eggens, Edith van Walsum
Editorial – Planet for sale by Edith van Walsum
Opinion: Land is money by Suprabha Seshan
Clashing systems, common sense, and the “smart lane” by Gine Zwart
Land and power by Bertram Zagema
Our 2P approach by Jagat Deuja, Bed Prasad Khatiwada
Learning about … Agriculture is grounded on women’s land rights by Nicola Piras
The contribution of local governments by Thea Hilhorst
Opinion: The cavalry is coming by Robin Palmer