RESOURCE DOCUMENTS
- 2004 and 2006 World meetings
- Land grabbing and land concentration
- Family agriculture or large industrial farms ?
- Rights to land
- Political solutions for the future
- Overuse of oceans, deforestation, sustainability of indigeneous land and natural use
1. Issue Papers of the Conference
- Issue Paper # 1. Policies and Procedures for Securing and Improving Access to Land (IIED)
- Issue Paper # 2. States and Civil Society: access to land, rural development and capacity building for new forms of governance (AGTER)
- Issue Paper # 3. New Opportunities for Community Driven Rural Development (EHESS)
- Issue Paper # 4. Agrarian Reform, Social Justice and Sustainable Development (Sergio Leite et Ricardo Avila)
- Issue Paper # 5. Agrarian Reform in the Context of Food Sovereignty, the Right to Food and Cultural Diversity: Land, Territory and Dignity (IPC)
2. The final declaration of the Conference
- Conference Declaration (FAO)
3. Other documents
4. Civil Society. Forum “Land, Territory and Dignity”. Porto Alegre, 6-9 March 2006
Land grabbing and land concentration: Quantifying current trends; identifying major players
> World Forum on Access to Land – preparatory continental meeting : land grabbing and land concentration in Europe : Document
> Large scale land appropriations: Analysis of the phenomenon and proposed guidelines for future action / Comité Technique “Foncier et Développement ” : Document
> Issues and Conceptual Framework for Understanding Land Grabs / AGTER : Document
> Poverty, hunger and agricultural “investments”. Keys to understanding the current phenomena of land and natural resource appropriation and concentration around the world / AGTER : Document
> Large Scale Land Grabbing : The Role of Multinational Firms / AGTER : Document
“Socially responsible farmland investment” ?
> Socially responsible farmland investment: a growing trap / GRAIN : Document
> Investments in agriculture: a danger or an opportunity for smallholder farmers and humanity? / C2A : Document
Land grabbing in Europe
> The State of Land in Europe / Transnational Institute : Document
> Land concentration, land grabbing and people’s struggles in Europe / Transnational Institute : Document
> Agroecology: A Response to the Agricultural and Food Challenges of the 21st Century / C2A : Document
> Economic efficiency and effectiveness of agricultural water use in family farming / C2A : Document
> Fair Share of Water: Ensuring access to water for family farming in the South / C2A : Document
> Agricultural employment, an historical challenge : fighting against farmers’ evictions is imperative ! / Henri Rouillé d’Orfeuil : Document
> Reinstating Economic Evaluations as a Means of Determining whether Agricultural Investment Projects Will Serve the Common Interest / Comité Technique Foncier et Développement : Document
Diversity of rights to land and rights holders
> Rights to Land and Natural Resources / Michel Merlet : Document
> Origins and grounds of rights. The different systems of recording and validating rights : Document
> Examples of the Diversity of Rights Holders and Rights to Land and Natural Resources in West Africa / Michel Merlet et Kouadio André Yobouet : Document
> Struggles over property rights in the context of large-scale transnational land acquisitions. Using legal pluralism to re-politicize the debate / Pierre Merlet and Johan Bastiaensen : Document
> Reappropriating the Law to recover control of the use of Land / Quentin Hecquet : Document
Rights recognition and security of tenure
> Land Governance and Security of Tenure in Developing Countries / Technical Committee on “Land tenure and Development” : Document
> Myths, deadlocks of land registration and the need for alternative approaches / Technical Committee on “Land tenure and Development” : Document
> Securing and regulating land tenure: putting the issues before the tools. Some of the obstacles to coherent policies / Technical Committee on “Land tenure and Development” : Document
> Can International Law contribute to a more equitable global society ? / Monique Chemillier Gendreau : Document
Forest
> How to protect efficiently the forests without reinforcing the commercial pressures on land? : Document
Fishery resources
> Ocean grabbing : a new wave of enclosures / Transnational Institute : Document
> Main transformations on the access rights to halieutic resources and the management of the fishing resources : Document