Building community resistance against land grabbing
The land rush in the last five years has raised the need to monitor and build country case studies on global land grabs to expose the nature of the phenomenon. This compilation of seven case studies from Indonesia (two cases); Sri Lanka (two cases); Pakistan; the Philippines; and Malaysia provides fresh insights on initial observations made regarding resource grabs that are happening worldwide. All the compiled case studies have proven that the most compelling issue with land grabbing is food sovereignty. Legality is tilted in favor of foreign investors. Multilateral institutions intervene in national laws. Communities are not consulted; indigenous people are simply driven away from their ancestral lands; and communities’ access to natural resources is affected. But at the same time, the cases also present stories of people’s resistance. In varied degrees of organizational strength, the communities have fought back and raised their level of awareness and have provided the inspiration that people’s resistance is alive and remains the key factor in asserting human rights and achieving food sovereignty. Source: http://www.panap.net/sites/default/files/Building-Community-Resistance-Against-Land-Grabbing.pdf