Land grabbing - Slow Food International

Slow Food supports evicted Ogiek Community with a fundraising campaign. Let’s make a difference together!

24 July 2020

We received very disturbing news from our network in Kenya: members of the Ogiek indigenous community and Slow Food activists are being illegally and forcibly evicted from their ancestral land, the Mau Forest. Slow Food has launched today a fundraising campaign to help support the Ogiek families who lost everything. If you wish to donate, …

Run for Nature: The Fight to Save Africa’s Forests

21 July 2020 Paula Thomas

As the world concentrates on dealing with COVID-19 pandemic, multinational companies continue to evict communities from their land, tearing down their lives and their sovereignty to plant monocrops like oil palm and sugar cane in Africa, or GMO soy in South America. Land grabbing is a term that gets tossed around when talking about the …

A broken system: how EU farming subsidies lead to land grabbing in Hungary

27 January 2020 Jack Coulton

Ever since the foundation of the European Union, agricultural subsidies have formed the largest single element of its financial plan, accounting €50 billion annually, over a third of the total budget. The Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) has lots of faults, which Slow Food has talked about on numerous occasions over the years, but it’s worth …

Land grabbing: An urgent issue for indigenous peoples around the world

25 January 2018 Francisco Luis Prieto

About 2.5 billion people around the globe, including 370 million indigenous people, depend on land and natural resources that are held, used, and managed collectively. This means that one third of the world’s population is vulnerable to dispossession by more powerful actors. As stated by the “Land Rights Now” campaign, indigenous peoples protect more than …

The Future of Uganda is in Danger: Stop Land Grabbing!

8 January 2018

An increase in land grabbing in Uganda has pushed Slow Food to launch a campaign against it After the press conference held today in Mukono (Uganda), Slow Food has officially launched the campaign “Our Future is in Danger: Stop Land Grabbing!” The campaign aims to raise awareness about land grabbing* and its consequences among the …

A New Dawn For The Ogiek

8 June 2017 John Kariuki

On 26th May 2017, the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights delivered a landmark judgment against the Kenyan government in a case brought before it by the Ogiek Indigenous People. According to the court, the Kenyan government has violated several articles 1, 2, 8, 14, 17, 21 and 22 of the African Charter on …

Teren de Vanzare – Land for sale: Romanian peasants’ struggle against land grabbing

12 May 2017 Carolina Modena

In Europe we tend to relegate the idea of land grabbing to the global South, yet it is happening much closer to home than we perhaps realize. A particularly sad example of land grabbing in Europe can be found in Romania, which has the largest number of farms of any European Union country.

France Says “Non” to Land Grabbing

20 February 2017 michela marchi

There is no question that the French are conscious of their heritage, and well aware of how it should be valued. Now they’ve made another clever move, though this time it’s not a question of defending typical local specialties or declaring war on food waste, but of preserving small-scale agriculture from the attacks of speculators.

Indigenous people ‘close down’ a Federal Electricity Commission (CFE) substation in Cuetzalan

7 December 2016

Residents of Cuetzalan “definitively closed down” the construction of a CFE electrical substation and its power line, starting a protest camp to prevent the resumption of works that benefit business at the expense of the local population in Sierra Norte.

Sioux victory at Standing Rock

6 December 2016 Silvia Ceriani

The Sioux have won. On Sunday December the United States Army Corps of Engineers announced they would not give permission to Dakota Access to complete construction of an oil pipeline that would have passed underneath the Missouri River and Lake Oahe, threatening the Standing Rock Indian Reservation’s only water supply. Alternate routes will now be explored.