Women and Naked Protests in Uganda: Breathing new life into feminist discourse that women do not own land
Theresa Auma Eilu* Blog Article submitted to SMAIAS to be posted on Agrarian South Network (ASN) 24 July 2019 As a form of resistance to the recent emergence of large-scale land acquisition in Uganda, women have been at the forefront of violent confrontations with state authorities and investors. In a context where the dominant feminist
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Does the support for ‘second inning’ of Modi-Government indicate the absence of Agrarian Distress in India?
By Manish Kumar The incumbent Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), backed by the right wing ideology has been elected for the second consecutive term in India. The Modi-led BJP government has been endorsed with 303 seats in Lok Sabha out of 543 with the largest vote share (44%), 5% more than their vote share in
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CONSEA’s extinction is a set back for the Human Right to Adequate Food
Jenifer Queila Santana Former Counselor of CONSEA PhD Candidate on Political Science at Federal University of Pernambuco Member of the Research Group of Hunger and International Relations (FomeRI/UFPB) The Food and Nutrition Security (SAN, in Portuguese) policy suffered attacks on the first day of President Jair Bolsonaro’s government. Provisional Measure (PM) No. 870 promulgated
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In the Wake of the Namibian Second National Land Conference
Pablo Gilolmo Lobo* In 1991, in the aftermath of independence, the Namibian government hosted a National Land Conference in order to tackle one of the main colonial heritages that motivated the liberation struggle and urged the new national project: land redistribution. In October 2018, and in the face of the rachitic record showed by
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Argentina: Who is going to pay?
We understand that this course of action depends almost entirely on the disarmament of the agrarian right wing collation, focusing the interventions on the concentrating agents (agrarian pools, landowners, exporting companies) and for the benefit of the middle and family agriculture. Damian Lobos* Argentina´s next government will have a complex fiscal situation. After three years
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A new wave of agrarian protest in Punjab
Hashim bin Rashid* On December 5, 2018, thousands of farmers from central and southern Punjab descended on Lahore under the umbrella of the Pakistan Kissan Ittehad-Anwar Group (PKI-A). The demands were to increase the support price for sugar cane, force sugar mills to start the crushing season, increase fertilizer subsidies and ending cases against protesting
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