Ongoing struggles
This page presents some of the many ongoing struggles around the world over land grabbing and the management of the commons, including those led by the organisations behind this Forum. All forum participants can share their struggle experience on this page by sending it to us using the form at the bottom of this page.
FLT Steering Committee Meeting - April 12 & 13, 2023
On April 12 and 13, 2023, representatives of the member organizations of the FLT steering committee met in Paris. This meeting on the future of the [...]
DO INTERNATIONAL FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS AIM TO REDUCE POVERTY AMONG THE MALAGASY OR THE OPPOSITE?
While public opinion is concerned about the final content of the amendments to the new land law on untitled private property (1), which are expected to be adopted [...].
An example of management of the commons: public maritime space
Article published in "Campagnes Solidaires" by Jean François Périgné, mussel producer in Oléron and member of the International Commission of the Confédération paysanne n The [...]
Mourning in the struggling community of Engenho Roncadorzinho
Last October we shared a video testimony in the framework of the forum of struggles "Engenho Roncadorzinoh, 40 years of struggle! (link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BF6hromd-0U). A [...]
Point of departure for the West African caravan
3rd edition of the West African caravan for the right to land, water and peasant agro-ecology... The Caravan was in Senegal and in [...]
Action Confédération Paysanne - 8 Nov 2021 "La prise de la Bassine" - Les soulèvements de la Terre
THE CATCH OF THE BASIN! 💥😁 3000 anti-bassinists meet in Mauzé-sur-le-Mignon and dismantle a "basin of shame" and its pump 🌊✊ Press release from [...]
Madagascar Alert
2 November 2021 The Tany la défense des Terres Malgaches collective alerts us to a revision of the land law that could lead to the eviction of [...]
Open letter - UN Food Systems Summit
The Confédération paysanne and 83 other signatories call on France to resist the pressures of multinationals and save peasant agriculture. An International Summit on the Food Chain [...]
El kabir El Miloudi: Against the expropriation of the lands of the Amazigh ethnic communities in Morocco
To bring you up to date on community or collective land, here is an overview of what is happening and how it is developing in Morocco. Despite several demonstrations [...]
Action of the CGLTE OA
In this month of August, a follow-up visit to women's groups in the informal sector of Serédou in the Republic of Guinea is underway by a women's [...].
Call by Rames Sharma (Ekta Parishad) to the organisations participating in the Forum to submit suggestions for the inclusion of UNDROP resolutions in the ICESCR
"Hello everyone, it's great to see the online forum being actively used! I wanted to draw everyone's attention to an interesting process [...]
Letter from Malagasy farmers to the President of the Republic and the members of the High Institutional Court
Following the approval by the National Assembly of the draft law on untitled private land on the night of Wednesday 30 June, the [...]
Ibrahim Coulibaly: Land grabbing is a breeding ground for terrorism
Ibrahim Coulibaly is the president of ROPPA and a farmer who is very active in movements to defend the rights of small farmers. After several struggles [...]
Madagascar Alert
The collective Tany la défense des Terres Malgaches alerts us to a revision of the land law that could lead to the eviction of thousands of farmers [...].
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