Land & Resources

A global wave of land and water grabs is concentrating farmland and other food producing resources in the hands of a few, with serious consequences for both rural and urban communities. For an introduction to this issue, download our Food First Issue Primer on Land & Resources

Dangers of the Gates Foundation: Displacing Seeds and Farmers

Blog | Ana Galvis | Nov 18, 2015

From a presentation by Mariam Mayet Edited by Simone Adler November 18, 2015  Mariam is the founder and director of…

Keystone XL Pipeline: Rejected!

Blog | Ana Galvis | Nov 11, 2015

  Tribal, Grassroots, & Treaty Leaders Respond to President Obama Rejecting Keystone XL Pipeline For Immediate Release November 6th, 2015…

Peruvian indigenous leader in London to denounce illegal deforestation in the Amazon

Blog | Ana Galvis | Nov 3, 2015

London, 2nd November 2015: Robert Guimaraes Vasquez, a leader of the Shipibo-Konibo indigenous people in Peru’s Amazon has travelled to…

The US Farm Bill: Corporate Power and Structural Racialization in the US Food System

Blog | Ana Galvis | Oct 30, 2015

The US Farm Bill: Corporate Power and Structural Racialization in the US Food System, pulls the veil off the US…

Reflections after a week in Cuba

Blog | Eric Holt-Giménez | Aug 26, 2015

Neil A. (Tony) Holtzman, a Food First member-donor since the 1980s joined us on a recent Food Sovereignty Tour to…

Agro-Colonialism in the Congo: Europe and US bankroll a new round of colonialism in the DRC

Policy Brief | GRAIN and RIAO-RDC | Jun 2, 2015

A 100-year old land conflict in the war-torn Democratic Republic of Congo is about to boil over thanks to US and European-funded land grabbing.

Resistance, acquiescence or incorporation? Introduction to land grabbing and resistance

Academic Publication | Ben White, Ian Scoones, Marc Edelman, Ruth Hall, Saturnino M. Borras and Wendy Wolford | May 22, 2015

The Journal of Peasant Studies, 42:3-4, 467-488.

Territorial Restructuring and Resistance in Argentina

Academic Publication | Zoe Brent | May 22, 2015

Zoe W. Brent (2015) Territorial restructuring and resistance in Argentina, The Journal of Peasant Studies, 42:3-4, 671-694.

The Vanishing Public Sphere: Eric Holt-Giménez Speaks at Community Land Trust Meeting (Video)

Blog | Eric Holt-Giménez | Apr 21, 2015

Eric Holt-Giménez speaks at the 2015 Annual Meeting of the Community Land Trust in the Southern Berkshires held on March…

The World Bank’s Long War on Peasants

Blog | Eric Holt-Giménez and Tanya M. Kerssen | Apr 20, 2015

“The corporate revolution will collapse if we refuse to buy what they are selling—their ideas, their version of history, their…

Water as Commodity: The Wrong Prescription

Blog | Maude Barlow | Feb 12, 2015

In celebration of our 40th anniversary year, Food First is revisiting past publications from our rich archive of analyses on…

No Time to Lose Common Ground: Why land matters in nutrition debates

Academic Publication | Alberto Alonso-Fradejas, Christina Schiavoni and Zoe Brent | Dec 15, 2014

Development (2014) 57(2), 218–225.