Publications
Pastoralism under Threat: Human Rights Violations in the Southern Agriculture Growth Corridor of Tanzania (2017)
This is a policy brief by Terra Nuova, CELEP and Hands on the Land for Food Sovereignty. It analyses, adopting a human rights approach, the violations against pastoralists in Tanzania, as consequences of the implementation of so-called corridors "for agricultural growth".
Keeping seeds in peoples' hands - The Right to food and nutrition watch 2016
Increasingly, seed and agrochemical businesses seek to privatize, monopolize and control seeds by patenting and commodifying this very source of life. Meanwhile, peasant and indigenous communities, who have been the developers and guardians of seeds for millennia, are finding their rights to save, use, exchange and sell seeds overshadowed by a corporate agenda that prioritizes profit over human rights and the sustainable maintenance of nature.
Connecting smallholders to markets: an analytical guide (2016)
The guide to civil society on the important topic currently debated at the World Food Safety Committee, to highlight the importance of local, national and regional markets, where most world food circulates, and to which small-scale producers refer, and to support these same producers to deal with governments to implement public policies that support these markets.
Peoples' Nutrition is not a Business - Right to food and nutrition Watch 2015
Commonly referred to as ‘corporate capture’, the increasing control of businesses over food systems and resources, institutions, policy spaces and governance structures, is putting human rights at great risk. The world is witnessing this reality from the Americas to Asia, particularly since the 2008 world food crisis that shook societies across the globe. It is clear that the present economic model cannot guarantee the conditions for national governments to fulfill their human rights obligations, including the right to adequate food and nutrition.
Spotlight 2015: Investing for development?
Foreign Direct Investments flows into developing countries have largely outstripped Official Development Aid1, and attracting private capital flows is increasingly perceived as the new vector for the development of poor countries.
The New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition: a coup for corporate capital? (2014)
A report by Terra Nuova and the Transnational Institute reveals the pressure of corporates to conquer a continent that the World Bank has defined as "the last frontier for global food and agriculture markets"
Family farmers for sustainable food systems (2013)
This report is the result of three studies conducted by the regional rural peasant networks in Western, Central and Eastern Africa, on production models, consumption models and food markets in Africa.
(Bio)fueling injustice? (2012)
The report “(Bio)fueling injustice? Europe's responsibilities to counter climate change without provoking land grabbing and compounding food insecurity in Africa", as a result of the research carried out by the “EuropAfrica” campaign, is part of the monitoring action on European policies impacting on food security in Africa.