Justice, Peace, Integrity
of Creation
Justice, Peace, Integrity
of Creation
By John Paul Pezzi, Mccj
Justice, Peace, Integrity
of Creation
By John Paul Pezzi, Mccj
Justice, Peace, Integrity
of Creation
By John Paul Pezzi, Mccj
Justice, Peace, Integrity
of Creation
By John Paul Pezzi, Mccj
Bringing the Land-grabbing issue to the United Nations.
30.01.2013
On January 9, 2013 two dozen religious groups with consultative status at ECOSOC (U.N.) gathered for the first meeting of the “NGO LandGrab group.” This initiative was launched by the Comboni Missionaries and sponsored by Vivat International.
This has been termed land squeeze, which essentially refers to the shrinking availability of land for those who live off it, or even merely survive from it. Land squeeze is more than just a reduction [...] 
La Via Campesina is the largest planetary movement of peasant organisations. It has been talking about the food sovereignty concept for decades and launches a new call for a food sovereignty of the [...] 
Reading the beginning of your book, J'accuse (I accuse). Is the solution for Africa to be left alone, because of the damage perpetrated by the West from colonization to the present days?
There [...] 
I find new roads, often paved or in solid ground, where there were only paths, meandering through perfectly cultivated fields and eucalyptus woods, fruit of World Bank projects. Houses sprout [...] 
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The millions who are hungry and homeless in the United States are unlikely to have ever sufficiently well payed jobs or any jobs at all. Two million manufacturing jobs [...] 
Such a common tenure, however, was put aside when Roman law Act introduced the concept of dominium and exploded in our modern times with the Enclosures Act in 19th Century England. As Alanna Hartzok [...] 
The community land trust model is not included in the current trend of markets globalization, where the earth is a commodity, subject to speculation and where its use is actually of less importance [...] 
On February 11, 2011, at a general meeting, farming organizations, NGOs, trade unions and other civic groups at the World Social Forum in Dakar, launched an appeal against “land grabbing”. [...] 
Institutions including Harvard and Vanderbilt reportedly use hedge funds to buy land in deals that may force farmers out. 
I am from Colombia and like many of my compatriots I used to live within my own world without really understanding what was going on. The government controlled radio and TV put out false, shameless [...] 
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