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

Occupy the Farm – The Movie

Blog | Eric Holt-Giménez | Nov 21, 2014

“The whole point of this is to not talk about what we want and not demand what we want, but…

Brackish Waters and Salted Lands: The social cost of shrimp in Bangladesh

Backgrounders & Issue Brief | Jason Cons and Kasia Paprocki | Oct 20, 2014

What is the social and environmental cost concealed in those bags of frozen prawns found in supermarkets throughout the Global North?

Land & Resource Grabs in the United States: Five sites of struggle and potential transformation

Policy Brief | Tanya M. Kerssen and Zoe Brent | Oct 16, 2014

Land & Sovereignty Brief No. 7 This issue describes five areas of land and resource grabbing in the US, which also embody key sites of resistance.

Action Alert: Tell the EPA to Protect Bristol Bay from Large-Scale Mining

Blog | Commercial Fishermen for Bristol Bay | Sep 18, 2014

Click here to tell the EPA that large-scale mining development in Bristol Bay, Alaska, would pose unacceptable adverse impacts to Bristol Bay’s…

Land Conflicts and the Criminalization of Peasant Movements in Paraguay

Policy Brief | FIAN International and La Vía Campesina | Jun 18, 2014

Land & Sovereignty Brief No. 6. On June 15, 2012, seventeen people were killed in the rural district of Curuguaty, Paraguay.

Land & Sovereignty in the Americas: Report Back from Brasilia

Blog | Zoe Brent | Jun 4, 2014

Around 30 professors, students, NGOs and social movement representatives gathered in Brasilia May 5-7, 2014 for an International Seminar on…

Farmland Meets Finance: Is Land the New Economic Bubble?

Policy Brief | Madeleine Fairbairn | May 27, 2014

Land & Sovereignty Brief No. 5 This report identifies broad trends in farmland investing with the potential to affect countries in the Global North and Global South.

Video: Eric Holt-Giménez at the Our Land Symposium

Video | Eric Holt-Giménez | Apr 30, 2014

"For most of the world, you have to be willing to die for the land, or kill for it." - Eric Holt-Giménez speaking at Our Land: A Symposium on Farmland Access. See the full speech.

This Land is Whose Land? Dispossession, Resistance and Reform in the United States

Backgrounders & Issue Brief | Eric Holt-Giménez | Apr 25, 2014

The disastrous effects of land grabbing and land concentration sweeping the globe do not affect all farmers equally.

Land Conflicts in Argentina: From resistance to systemic transformation

Blog | Zoe Brent | Jan 2, 2014

This article is an excerpt from Food First’s Land & Sovereignty Series. Following Argentina’s economic crisis in 2001, the country…

Reforming Cuba’s Agrarian Reform

Blog | Zoe Brent | Dec 17, 2013

Recent law embodies the challenges of balancing productive efficiency with the state’s historic role in regulating food production Since coming to power…

Land Conflicts in Argentina: From resistance to systemic transformation

Policy Brief | Zoe Brent | Dec 1, 2013

Land & Sovereignty Brief No. 4 After Argentina's 2001 crisis, the country leaned heavily on mining and large-scale agribusiness to reinvigorate its ailing economy.