“We are experiencing a reorganization of the UDR”, defines Lucineia Durães, from the MST’s national leadership. She refers to the Ruralist Democratic Union (UDR), an entity of rural employers created to react organized and violently to the advances of movements in defense of agrarian reform in the 1980s and 1990s in Brazil.
Global Campaign for Agrarian Reform
ECVC Proposes European Directive on Agricultural Land to Stop Land Concentration and Ensure More Farmers in Europe
“It is time to shift away from our mercantile approach to land and recognise its important social, cultural, and ecological functions.” European Coordination Via Campesina.
Agrarian reform, a forbidden subject
“Agrarian reform” needs to be put back at the political center, but now accompanied by… Read more →
The MST’s Red April launches a campaign for “Land, Housing, and Bread”
The National Campaign of Struggles in Defense of Agrarian Reform in 2022 is happening from… Read more →
People’s movements take to the streets against evictions throughout Brazil on Thursday March 17
The Campaign for Zero Evictions is calling for demonstrations in the main capitals of the… Read more →
Food Sovereignty and Solidarity: A Historic Moment to Advance Our Peasant Struggles
INTERNATIONAL DAY OF PEASANTS’ STRUGGLE: DECLARATION BY LA VIA CAMPESINA, HARARE, ZIMBABWE: 17 APRIL 2021… Read more →
Spain: Peasant women find it more difficult to access agricultural aid
Peasant Organisations in Spain – COAG and the Confederation of Rural Women (CERES) – demand… Read more →
Opinion: Agrarian Reform today and the challenges we face
This article reflects the discussions and debates that took place during a virtual study session… Read more →
Nyeleni Newsletter #41: “Beyond Land – Territory and Food Sovereignty” | #16October
Control over land and related resources reflect the power relations in a country/region, and are… Read more →
#TimetoTransform: Why do we regard an Integral and Popular Agrarian Reform as a matter of urgency?
Today peasants, indigenous peoples, farm workers, land-less peasants, fisherfolk, consumers, women and young people worldwide… Read more →