Land Grabbing in Europe
The message that land grabbing is happening in Europe is urgently being spread by the agricultural activist group Via Campesina. Via Campesina is an international movement of peasants, small- and medium-sized producers, landless, rural women, indigenous people, rural youth and agricultural workers. Land concentration and land grabbing do not occur only in developing countries in […]
Aggressive Land Buyers Threaten Local Tribes in Ethiopia
The Oakland Institute has reported that: Ethiopia has been the focus of aggressive foreign agricultural investment, leasing out nearly 3.6 million hectares of land for commercial farm ventures from 2008-2010. This investment has corresponded with widespread human rights violations. Most egregiously, the Ethiopian government’s villagization program will displace 1.5 million people by 2013–with the five […]
How Do We Trust?
As the Agrarian Trust project forges forward, it seems important to check back and define what this trust idea is really about. I remember my first reflections on mishearing our name as a growing trust, and all the connotations that came along with my understanding of what a trust is. In current language, as applied […]
National Family Farm Coalition Farmland Monitor
Farmland is increasingly becoming a financial asset. The National Family Farm Coalition has set up a resource for tracking and stopping groups from purchasing land out from under the feet of working small farmers. The Farmland Monitor is a place to share stories and take action to save small working farms.