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The ravages of agribusiness in Africa

Paul Martial — 2026-04-18T07:28:45Z

The results of the Green Revolution in Africa are negative for the agricultural world and for the environment. On the other hand, they have encouraged the establishment of multinationals on the continent.

- IVP615 - April 2026 / Ecology and the Environment, Africa, Farmers/peasants/land

A historic peasant mobilization in Greece

Andreas Sartzekis — 2026-02-04T20:13:00Z

For two months, Greek peasants mobilized with a partial blockade of major roads. While this type of movement has occurred before, this one is remarkable for its duration, the number of participants, its geographical scope, and also the way it was organized.

- IVP613 - February 2026 / Greece, Farmers/peasants/land

If only land were expropriated in South Africa…

Fani Ncapayi, Mercia Andrews — 2025-08-29T14:08:50Z

South Africans have been bombarded with criticisms of South Africa's Expropriation Act in recent months. It has even become a major talking point on social media platforms. One unforgettable moment was the infamous scene on national television featuring claims of “mass graves and killings” of white farmers, an absurd spectacle promoted by Trump and his allies in the White House. This propaganda video claimed that white farmers were being systematically murdered, feeding the narrative that the Expropriation Act was a tool for reverse racial discrimination, land seizure and genocide.

- IVP607 - August 2025 / South Africa, Farmers/peasants/land

Thousands protest canalisation of the Indus and coporate farming

Farooq Tariq — 2025-03-29T06:33:51Z

Thousands of farmers gathered in Bhit Shah, Sindh, to protest against corporate farming initiatives and the proposed canal projects on river Indus. The conference, organized by the Pakistan Kissan Rabita Committee with the support of three other members of PKRC from Sindh, saw participation from farmers' leaders across Sindh, Punjab, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Balochistan, and the Saraiki region.

- IVP602 - March 2025 / Ecology and the Environment, Pakistan, Farmers/peasants/land

Europe: Crisis in the agricultural sector

Isa Álvarez Vispo — 2024-02-14T07:11:00Z

“We need to ask who decides about our food, talk about rights, raise food sovereignty, the right to decide about our food with criteria of social and environmental justice, as an umbrella under which to walk. The solutions to climate change will not come from unsustainable energy technologies, but from looking to the Earth and building coexistence between its needs and ours.”

- IV589 - February 2024 / Europe, European Union, Farmers/peasants/land

Radical change is needed to combat capitalist agriculture!

NPA-l'Anticapitaliste (NPA-A) — 2024-02-04T08:57:47Z

“Capitalism and productivism always go hand in hand, and this is particularly true in agriculture: for capitalists, you have to grow wheat... to make money (pousser du ble...pour faire du blé!, ble means both wheat and money in French!).”

- News from around the world / France, Farmers/peasants/land

Revolutionary, peasant leader: Hugo Blanco (1934 - 2023)

Maria Sundvall — 2023-06-26T21:52:40Z

Tierra o Muerte! Land or death!

- In Memoriam - Obituaries and appreciations / Sweden, Obituary, Fourth International, Peru, Farmers/peasants/land

The Landless Workers Movement under attack

Guy Zurkinder — 2023-05-06T10:14:00Z

“The two main demands of the MST to the current Lula government: on the one hand, the allocation of land to the 60,000 families currently living in settlements; on the other, the implementation of a comprehensive plan to develop food creation and preserve the environment.“

- IV580 - May 2023 / Brazil, Farmers/peasants/land

How the Farmers' Movement Brought the Modi Government to its Knees

Ajoy Ashirwad Mahaprashasta — 2021-11-20T05:42:57Z

“The victory of the farmers' movement also marks the Modi government's first real defeat in the last seven years. In that sense, it is a momentous occasion in India's political history.”

- IV562 - November 2021 / India, Farmers/peasants/land

It's not a crime to struggle! End the trial of José Rainha and Claudemir Silva!

Correspondents l'Anticapitaliste — 2021-09-16T08:35:03Z

In Bolsonaro's Brazil, a new emblematic case of judicial repression is targeting leaders of the movement against land grabbing.

- News from around the world / Brazil, Farmers/peasants/land