Includes economic dispossession: neoliberal trade agreements; twenty-first-century land grabs: accumulation by rural dispossession; problems with the growing global emphasis on large farms.
One of the most wellknown biofuel investments was that of Bioshape, which acquired approximately 34,000 ha in Kilwa District for the cultivation of jatropha.
Parakuiyo Pastoralists Indigenous Community Development Organization (PAICODEO), PINGOs Forum, Tanzania Land Alliance (TALA), the Legal and Human Rights Centre (LHRC) and journalists from ITV, Star TV, Channel 10 and Mwananchi newspaper have conducted a fact finding mission concerning the forced evictions of pastoralists in Kilombero and Ulanga districts in Morogoro region in Tanzania. The fact finding mission was carried out from 12.11 – 15.11 2012.
This fact finding mission had been organised to investigate the challenges facing pastoralists in Rufiji District, the challenges which have been defined as the source of conflict in this district. Although pastoralists had arrived in Rufiji since 1990’s but they officially went there and other places in Coastal and in Lindi Regions after they had been evicted from Ihefu and Kilosa in 2006-9. The Government, through their operation, announced to prepare areas for pastoralists and also to set all necessary and potential services for them to survive In Lindi, Ruvuma and Pwani Regions.
Pastoralists in Tanzania are suffering from many human rights violations, including forced evictions from their lands. This report gives a comprehensive analysis of the human rights situation of indigenous peoples in Tanzania, and documents cases of human rights violations against Maasai pastoralists during 2011.
The information contained in this report is a result of a comprehensive survey and human rights analysis, which used both primary and secondary data collection methodologies covering a total of 10 districts and 18 villages.
O presente trabalho intenciona analisar os processos sociais que possibilitaram a ascensão de descendentes de escravos como possuidores de terra em contextos pós-coloniais. O debate ora suscitado busca eleger como foco de reflexão as relações que produzem discursos de verdade, nos quais antigos rendeiros (Cabo Verde) e quilombolas (Brasil) não se constituem facilmente na figura de proprietários.
textabstractThis paper seeks to unravel the political economy of large-scale land acquisitions in
post-Soviet Russia. Russia falls neither in the normal category of ‘investor’ countries,
nor in the category of ‘target’ countries. Russia has large ‘land reserves’, since in the
1990s much fertile land was abandoned. We analyse how particular Russia is with
regards to the common argument in favour of land acquisitions, namely that land is
available, unused or even unpopulated. With rapid economic growth, capital of
Esta versión número 94 de la serie Diálogos que ustedes, nuestros/as suscriptores, reciben quincenalmente, es el último envío del año 2012 que está finalizando. El artículo comienza con un breve recuento de la escalada de asesinatos de líderes campesinos e indígenas que están luchando por acceso, restitución y seguridad jurídica de la propiedad de la tierra en varios países sudamericanos. Luego se repasan algunos datos sobre hitos del desarrollo rural y la integración en la región.
The economies of many countries such as the Gulf and Southern African States are to a considerable extent sustained by financial flows from extraction of mineral resources and fossil fuels. The discovery of such fortunes, in sufficiently viable quantities, can be a significant national blessing for effectively addressing development challenges. However, experience in other countries has shown that financial resources obtainable from mineral and fossil fuel extraction – the Extractive Industry, have not always assisted economic and social development.
El documento publicado en el Exploraciones 14 informa y reflexiona sobre la inseguridad alimentaria en Colombia en un contexto de violencia y al mismo tiempo, da cuenta de experiencias esperanzadoras para atender el problema. El trabajo de Fredy Napoleón Páez mereció el segundo premio de la categoría Ensayos en el Concurso Alimentos y pensamiento, siempre en agenda, llevado a cabo por el IPDRS en alianza con ICCO y OXFAM.
El boletín Apuntes de esta quincena contiene en la sección Diálogos un artículo sobre la problemática alimentaria en Colombia que se viene agudizando en los últimos años, producto de la violencia, del desplazamiento permanente de campesinos hacia las ciudades.
