Agrarian Justice

The ‘agrarian justice’ cluster in TNI brings together research and analysis on various pressing issues directly linked to the rural world, such as the impact of agrofuels, overseas aid and land policies, global land grabbing, food sovereignty, social movements and rural democratisation.

Members of Agrarian Justice

Jun Borras	Jennifer Franco
Lucia Goldfarb	Susan George
Walden Bello

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Australian Overseas Development Assistance and the Rural Poor

Dianto Bachriadi Nov 11 2009

Australian overseas development assistance is not simply driven by a desire to assist poorer countries in the Asia-Pacific region. The fundamental premise of Australian aid is, first and foremost, its own national interest.

Germany's Official Development Assistance in Land Policy

Roman Herre Sep 27 2009

The German government's involvement in land policy is reflected through its support for technical land administration and management in more than 20 countries, while the engagement in redistributive land policies like land reform is almost non-existent.

Land Reform Policies in Belgian Official Development Assistance

Jonas Vanreusel Sep 1 2009

For the most part of its history, the Belgian Official Development Assistance (ODA) focused on narrow agricultural productivity issues. With the slow but steady insertion of Belgian ODA into the
international development community’s priorities, instruments and methods, Belgium started to focus on broader rural development.

Land, Rural Social Movements and Democratisation in Indonesia

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Dianto Bachriadi Jun 30 2009

Although support from urban-based students and activists was important, the rural protest in Indonesia during President Suharto's regime was built on continued protest and organisation around land issues.

Pro-Poor Policy Reforms and Governance in State/Public Lands:

Jennifer Franco

Jun 17 2009

This paper attempts to specify the key criteria of a ‘pro-poor land policy’ and ‘truly democratic land governance’ concerning state/public lands, using the lessons from activist databases, including that of the international human rights organization Foodfirst Information and Action Network (FIAN).

From rural livelihoods to agricultural growth

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Lies Craeynest Feb 10 2009

This paper examines the policies and practices on land of the Department for International Development (DFID) of the United Kingdom. After a market-led approach to land distribution in the 1980s, DFID made some changes towards a rights-based land policy, but this has since regressed.

Bolivia’s New Constitution

Nick Buxton

Feb 5 2009

Against a barrage of opposition media propaganda funded by Bolivia’s elites, the new constitution was approved with 61% of the popular vote. Bolivia was once the prized pupil for its wholesale application of policies encouraged by the IMF and the World Bank. Now it is one of the countries articulating an alternative.

Competing Views and Strategies on Agrarian Reform

Jun Borras

Jan 18 2009

This book aims to deepen the discussion by focusing on the Philippine agrarian
reform experience, but drawing lessons that are relevant to
theory-building and to policy discourse and political actions in
situations elsewhere.

EU Land Policy and the Right to Food

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Pascal Bergeret Dec 23 2008

In 2004 the EU Commission published EU Land Policy Guide-lines: Guidelines for Support to Land Policy Design and Land Policy Reform Process in Developing Countries. It proposes that steps be taken to allow the legal recognition of customary rights and to strengthen the institutional capacities of customary structures that enforce them.

Rural social movements and their historical contribution for building democracy in Brazil

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Sérgio Sauer Dec 1 2008

Brazil has not experienced any sort of major agrarian reform since then, but dozens of rural movements have been organised and hundreds of thousands of landless peasants have acquired the right of access to land (especially through settlement projects) as a result of these social movements’ struggles. After so many years of fighting and popular mobilisation, what are these movements’ contributions to building rural democracy? This study seeks to understand this process by evaluating social movements’ alliances (both rural and urban alliances) and evaluating their relationships with political parties, especially with the Workers Party (Partido dos Trabalhadores – PT) and with the Brazilian Federal Government.