Land, Poverty and Livelihoods in an Era of Globalization

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dc.contributor.editor	A. Haroon Akram-Lodhi, Saturnino M. Borras Jr and Cristóbal Kay
dc.date.accessioned	2019-02-15T11:15:18Z
dc.date.accessioned	2023-07-22T06:48:26Z
dc.date.available	2019-02-15T11:15:18Z
dc.date.available	2023-07-22T06:48:26Z
dc.date.issued	2007
dc.identifier.isbn	978-0-203-96225-
dc.identifier.uri	http://10.215.13.25/handle/123456789/44175
dc.description	In the first six months of 2006 the governments of Bolivia and Venezuela announced plans to introduce wide-ranging reforms governing access to and control over land, in order to enhance the capacity of the poor and the marginalized to construct a livelihood. During the same period, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations (UN) convened the International Conference on Agrarian Reform and Rural Development in Porto Alegre, Brazil, which was the first such major intervention hosted within the UN system in 25 years, and which reaffirmed the need to wider, more secure and sustainable access to land in order to secure poverty eradication and sustainable development. While the conference was underway, La Via Campesina, the international peasants’ movement, was involved in a major confrontation with the Brazilian government over the grabbing of land by international biotechnology companies engaged in research designed to promote monocropping. Finally, six weeks later the national general secretary of the Philippines peasant movement, UNORKA, was assassinated, in an escalation of violence that had, at its heart, the issue of deepening conflicts over land between peasants, governments and international corporations. In short, 2006 saw a sharp reassertion of the primacy of land reform for all major actors involved in the global politics of development.
dc.language	en	en_US
dc.language.iso	en	en_US
dc.publisher	Routledge	en_US
dc.subject	Land reform — Developing countries.	en_US
dc.title	Land, Poverty and Livelihoods in an Era of Globalization	en_US
dc.type	Book	en_US