Defending the Commons, Territories and the Right to Food and Water

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Abstract: Almost a billion people around the world are now suffering from hunger and malnutrition - a dramatic rise in number since the soaring food prices over the last three years. Of these, about half are estimated to live in smallholder farming households, while roughly two-tenths are landless, another tenth are pastoralists, fi sherfolk, and forest users, and the remainder live in the cities. This crisis of world hunger is set to deepen as livelihood resources such as land and water continue to be transferred from such groups to the financially powerful in ever larger areas and longer timeframes.

Keywords: food day; hunger; natural resources; land; malnutrition; food sovereignty; fuel scarcity; water; exploited; ecological peasant agriculture; globalisation; neoliberal policy domination; unsustainable resource extraction; financial liberalisation; communities; climate change (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016-06
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