*EN Land grabs and land justice*
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*The new edition of the Nyéléni Newsletter is now online! *
Land is the basis for social life. It is a foundation not only for
agricultural production, but also shapes and is shaped by societies’
political, economic, and cultural dynamics: *power affects land access, and
land access grants power. *
Given land’s central role to human society, it is unsurprising that it has
also been *central to profit accumulation in the expansion of global
capitalism.* Long distance land grabs - the expropriation, commodification,
and privatization of distant lands - have been a central feature of world
history for 500 years. (…) The result: continuing waves of* dispossession,
genocide, and enslavement of Indigenous, Black, and Brown peoples*. So
while recent land grabs reflect continuity, contemporary drivers and
impacts must also be understood in their current context.
(…) This issue examines the challenges of the current rush for land by
financial and corporate actors, from the local to the global. It assesses
current opportunities and maps out strategies and solutions to promote
change. *Land is a site of contention and injustice; it is also an area of
struggle, and advancement, for food sovereignty and justice.*
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