• 16 November 2011 | Interviews | Negotiations on the Guidelines on Responsible Governance

  

  In the Name of Development

  India: When business takes over agriculture

  In the state of Orissa, India, nearly 10,000 peasants have committed suicide in the recent years as a result of their inability to face the debts acquired with banks in order to “modernize” their production, says Nicholas Barla of the Federation for water, forest and land protection. Read more

• 2 November 2011 | Interviews | Negotiations on the Guidelines on Responsible Governance | Session of the Committee on World Food Security of the FAO

  

  The Crisis and a return to the basics

  Interview with Maryam Rahmanian, Vicechair of the FAO’s High Level Panel of Experts on Food Security and Nutrition

  Land grabbing and the volatility of food prices appear as two elements of the same worrying reality which, according to the High Level Panel of Experts on Food and Nutrition “will not end naturally” unless there is a clear commitment to change the agriculture model, explained Maryam Rahmanian, of CENESTA and also member of the Panel on behalf of the Civil Society, in an interview with Real World Radio in Rome. Read more

• 1 November 2011 | Interviews | Negotiations on the Guidelines on Responsible Governance | Session of the Committee on World Food Security of the FAO

  

  Agribusiness: Luxury agriculture

  Paulo Groppo (FAO): Industrial agriculture is incapable of solving world hunger

  Paulo Groppo is the Officer of Rural Development of the Land and Water Division of the Natural Resources Department of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). He follows the national, regional and global agendas on land use and tenure. Real World Radio interviewed Groppo on the main problems on which these talks were focused: the increasing land grabbing and the agrarian reform. Read more

• 24 October 2011 | Interviews | Negotiations on the Guidelines on Responsible Governance | Session of the Committee on World Food Security of the FAO

  

  Rather than Investment, Appropriation

  Interview with Jan Douwe van der Ploeg, researcher on agriculture investments

  The mainstream discourse in international reports, among governments and in the media equals investment with growth and even development. However, it is clear that the biggest “investors” in agriculture are not corporations but the millions of peasants around the world. Read more

• 19 October 2011 | Interviews | Negotiations on the Guidelines on Responsible Governance | Session of the Committee on World Food Security of the FAO

  

  Killing Global Silence on The Agrarian Reform

  Interview with Sofia Monsalve (FIAN International): Balance and perspectives in the light of the Guidelines on land tenure

  Human Rights activist Sofia Monsalve said in an interview with Real World Radio that the Voluntary Guidelines on Land Tenure, water and forestry resources, recently agreed in Rome is a clear result of a process that has taken two decades, a tool to reactivate the social agenda and mobilizations around the Agrarian Reform and the protection of human rights defenders. Read more

• 17 October 2011 | Interviews | Negotiations on the Guidelines on Responsible Governance

  

  A Tool for the Future

  Kirtana Chandrasekaran (Friends of the Earth International) analyzes the progress made at the talks on the Guidelines on Land Tenure in Rome

  The talks on the Voluntary Guidelines gave us a great political boost that helps us understand and make more governments understand the horrible consequences of land grabbing for the peoples around the world. Read more

• 17 October 2011 | Chronicles | Negotiations on the Guidelines on Responsible Governance

  

  We Left our Footprint

  Social movements evaluated agreements reached around Guidelines

  On October 15, in the eve of the World Food Sovereignty Day, the talks around the Guidelines on land tenure and the use of other natural resources came to an end. Read more

• 14 October 2011 | News | Negotiations on the Guidelines on Responsible Governance

  

  Slow and Irresponsible

  International climate talks show no major progress

  Environmental federation Friends of the Earth International and Spanish group Ecologistas en Accion expressed their dissatisfaction at the lack of political will and of major commitment from the industrialized countries at the new round of the United Nations climate negotiations that ended on October 7 in Panama City. Read more

• 13 October 2011 | Interviews | Negotiations on the Guidelines on Responsible Governance

  

  Europe is Cracking

  Interview with Javier Sánchez of Vía Campesina Europe

  The paradigm of an urban Europe that gets its food from the southern countries has been one of the main victims of the current financial crisis that hits the big powers of industrial capitalism. Read more

• 13 October 2011 | Interviews | Negotiations on the Guidelines on Responsible Governance

  

  The New Frontiers

  Interview with Chandrika Sharma (India): investments displace coastal communities

  Chandrika Sharma is the Executive Secretary of the International Collective in Support of Fishworkers. She has participated as civil society representative in the final talks on the Guidelines on land tenure and the use of other natural resources in Rome, Italy. Read more

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