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Sign the Dakar appeal against land grabbing!!

The right to food, and its variations, is a human right derived from the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR). The UN Special Rapporteur on the right to food www.srfood.org , www.righttofood.org in 2002 defined it as follows: HERE

THE OAKLAND INSTITUTE BREAKING NEWS – Investor land deals exploiting Africa, report alleges | Energy & Oil | Reuters Refugees displaced by investors. $2 per hectare land deals cited. Biofuel production at expense of food.

http://af.reuters.com/article/energyOilNews

This coverage highlights how a US investor, AgriSol, has crafted a deal with the Tanzanian government that will displace 160,000 Burundian refugees who have been farming the land since 1972. The refugees have been working to gain Tanzanian citizenship, and are now being coerced into leaving the land in question if they want citizenship, according to our report.

These large scale investments in land in Africa are resulting in food insecurity, the displacement of small farmers, conflict, environmental devastation, water loss, and the further impoverishment and political instability of African nations. Please read this investigative series of reports and post widely.

https://www.facebook.com/oak.institute http://allafrica.com/tanzania

http://media.oaklandinstitute.org/special-investigation-understanding-land-investment-deals-africa

PRESS CONFERENCE ON LANDGRABBING IN PATAGONIA, ARGENTINA

The Permanent Forum for Life Dignity / Food Sovereignty Group, and the Grupo de Reflexión Rural (www.grr.org.ar), along with unions, student and teachers associations and many social organizations and political forces, convoke national and international journalists, social organizations, friends, colleagues and the general public to a Press Conference to be held on Friday June 10th, at 10:00 am at the Microcinema of the Atlantic Regional University Center of the National University of the Comahue Region of Patagonia, located in Ayacucho and Monsignor Esandi Boulevard, Viedma, Rio Negro Province, Argentina.

We want to expose and make known the actions we carry out against the traitorous agreement signed by the Governor of the Province of Rio Negro, Miguel Angel Saiz with the Chinese Heilongjiang Beidahuang State Farms and Business Trade Group CO., LTD . According to published information, this “agreement” threatens to hand over 320.000 hectares of arable land of Patagonia to this corporation for indiscriminate exploitation, including public infrastructure, irrigation systems, huge direct and indirect subsidies and fiscal favors, violating our National Food Sovereignty with multiple social, environmental, economic and cultural consequences.

Contact: Soberania Alimentaria nisojanichina@yahoo.com.ar

FINAL CALL FOR ORGANISATIONS TO SIGN THE DAKAR APPEAL AGAINST LAND GRABBING!!

During the > World Social Forum in Dakar, Senegal, in February 2011, social movements and organisations released a collective appeal against land grabbing. Over 150 organisations have already signed. If your organisation would also like to support this appeal, please do so before 15 June 2011.

The Dakar Appeal, together with the names of organisations endorsing it, will be presented during the mobilizations against the G20 Agriculture Ministers‘ meeting in Paris on 22-23 June.

Read and sign the petition here: http://www.petitiononline.com/dakar/petition.html

 

FINAL CALL FOR ORGANISATIONS TO SIGN THE DAKAR APPEAL AGAINST LAND GRABBING!!

Organisational signatures so far: http://www.grain.org/

 

– Africa-Europe Faith & Justice Network (AEFJN)
– ACORD (Agency for Cooperation and Research in Development), Africa
– Action Solidarité Tiers-Monde, Luxembourg
– ActionAid International
– AFASPA (Asociation française d’amitié et de solidarité avec les peuples d’Afrique)
– Africa-Europe Faith & Justice Network (AEFJN)
– African Biodiversity Network
– AFRIKA-EUROPA NETWERK NETHERLANDS
– Agronomes et Vétérinaires sans frontières
– AGTER
– Alliance Sud – Swiss Alliance of Development Organisations
– Almuth Ernsting (on behalf of Biofuelwatch)
– AlterCultures Association
– AOPP-Mali (Aassociation des Organisations Professionnelles Paysannes du Mali)
– ARGE Weltläden
– ASAMBLEA DE UNIDAD CANTONAL DE MONTUFAR
– Asociación de Trabajo Interdisciplinario -ATI
– Asociacion Salvar una Vida (Madrid)
– Association Solidarité Guyane
– Association Tierra Politis
– Association Vision Action Développement (AVAD)
– Associazione Rurale Italiana
– BIDII, MACHAKOS -KENYA
– Brasilien- und Uganda Hilfe e.V.
– Bread for all, Switzerland
– Bremen Information Center for Human Rights and Development
– Brot für die Welt, Germany
– CADTM Belgique (Comité pour l’annulation de la dette du tiers monde)
– Campagna per la Riforma della Banca Mondiale – CRBM
– Carina Weber, Pesticide Action Network Germany
– CARRE GEO & ENVIRONNEMENT
– Censat Agua Viva – Colombia
– Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL)
– Centre for Sustainable Development – CENESTA (Iran)
– CIFAES – Universidad Rural Paulo Freire en Tierra de Campos
– CNOP MALI
– COECOCEIBA-Amigos de la Tierra Costa Rica
– Collectif africain de recherche-action-formation (ONG CARAF) Sénégal
– Collectif pour la Défense des Terres Malgaches – TANY
– Comité français pour la solidarité internationale (CFSI)
– Comité logement Trois-Rivières
– Comizé pour l’Annulation de la Dette du Tiers Monde Suisse
– Community Alliance for Global Justice/AGRA Watch
– Confédération paysanne 79
– Confédération Paysanne du Congo COPACO
– COORDINACION DE ONG Y COOPERATIVAS -CONGCOOP-
– CORPORACION SEMBRAR
– CRID (Centre de Recherche et d’Information pour le développement)
– Daulat Institute West Sumatera Indonesia
– Déclaration de Berne – Berne Declaration
– Dharshana Kahingala-Action for the Peace & Human Rights
– Ecologistas en Acción – España
– Ecologistas en Accion Palencia
– Ecoportal.Net
– Ecumenical Advocacy Alliance
– Entraide et Fraternité (Belgium)
– ESAFF – East and Southern Africa Small Scale Farmers‘ Forum
– Federación de Comités de Solidaridad con África negra „UMOYA“
– Fellowship of Christian Councils and Churches in West Africa
– FIAN Austria
– FIAN BELGIUM
– FIAN France
– FIAN International
– FIAN Mexico
– FIAN Netherlands
– FIAN Norway
– FIAN Switzerland
– FIMARC
– Focus on the Global South
– Food Connect Foundation
– FoodFirst Information & Action Network (FIAN) Germany
– Front d’action populaire en réaménagement urbain (Québec, Canada)
– GAIA FOUNDATION – Hungary, Eszter Gabor
– Genre en Action
– GRAIN
– GRET, France
– Groupe Ecosocialiste de SolidaritéS Suisse
– guillermo rodriguez, Alianza Internacional de Habitantes, México
– INKOTA-netzwerk, Germany
– Institut de Recherche et de Promotion des Alternatives en Developpement (IRPAD)
– IRPAD/Afrique
– John E. Peck – Family Farm Defenders
– Jose Luis Porcuna Coto- Presidente CERAI
– Joseph Schechla, Housing and Land Rights Network, Habitat International Coalition (Cairo, Egypt)
– Judith Hitchman, DRL Synergies
– Juristes-Solidarités
– KEPA/Timo Lappalainen
– Kigata Moyangar Théophile Président du CILONG – TCHAD
– La Via Campesina
– League for Pastoral Peoples and Endogenous Livestock Development
– Lena Klevenås, president FIAN Sweden
– Lina Cahuasquí, FIAN Ecuador
– M.A.I.S. Ong
– Marcha Mundial de las Mujeres/Marche Mondiale des Femmes/World March of Women
– MASSA KONE S.G UNION(UACDDDD)mali
– MIJARC
– MNLE-Réseau Homme&Nature
– Network for Social Justice and Human Rights, Brazil
– Netzwerk Afrika Deutschland
– Niger Delta UPR Coalition
– Nikhil Aziz, Grassroots International
– NOUMINREN(Japan Family Farmers Movement)
– Nyikaw Ochalla, Anywaa Survival Organisation-ASO, UK
– Observatorio Sociolaboral y del Diálogo Social en el Ecuador
– OBV-Via Campesina Austria
– ONG AZHAR KIDAL
– ONG Harmonie Planétaire
– organizacion campesina movimiento huasteco democratico a.c.
– Parque Reserva Cerro de La Conejera
– Pax Romana ICMICA
– PELUM Association Regional Desk
– People’s Coalition on Food Sovereignty
– Peuples Solidaires en association avec ActionAid
– Plataforma Rural
– RAPDA Burkina: Yaméogo/Tapsoba W Caroline
– RAPDA Togo : Same DJOBO
– RED DE SEMILLAS
– Retorno a la Tierra, Costa Rica – Beatriz Schulthess
– School for Wellbeing Studies and Research
– SEREMOS Kamuturaki
– SIEJA
– Sierra Leone Network on The Right to Food
– Society for Threatened Peoples – Germany
– Solidaridad Suecia America latina SAL-Suecia
– Solidarité Mondiale contre la Faim
– SOS Faim Belgique
– SPP (Surplus People Project)
– Stichting Graal Nederland
– SYNERGIE PAYSANNE
– Terra de Direitos – OSC – Brasil
– Terre des Hommes France
– The Oakland Institute
– Tzuk Kim-pop, Guatemala
– Uniterre
– Veterinarios Sin Fronteras
– Weltladen Bremen
– Wilfred Dcosta, Indian Social Action Forum (INSAF), India
– World Rainforest Movement
– Zachary Makanya of PELUM-Kenya

 

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