PAN Asia Pacific (PANAP) strongly believes that while the rai Principles claims to be rights-based and supposedly recognizes the right to food, its overarching framework and several of its principles actually contradict such claims.
After a painstaking two-year negotiation process, the Principles lack the power to change the status quo, whereby corporate profit trumps human rights and the environment.
Les principes d’investissements responsables dans l’agriculture (rai) ne contiennent pas suffisamment de sauvegardes pour stopper l’accaparement des terres, dénonce La Via Campesina
Via Campesina says the Principles for responsible investment in agriculture do not contain sufficient safeguards to stop land grabbing and other destructive actions by private capital and complicit governments.
FAO Director-General says that a clear and unified set of principles will "enable larger and more sustainable investment in agriculture"
PAN Asia Pacific says the principles on agricultural investment are self-contradicting and fail in promoting the human right to food, land and resources.
Will the CSM get caught up in a hegemonic “land-grab trap” standing in for principles that turned out weak and entirely outside of their control?
Can land grabs by foreign investors in developing countries feed the hungry? So says the press release for a recent, and unfortunate, economic study.
Un communiqué de presse commun de GRAIN et de La Via Campesina sur le nouveau rapport « Affamés de terres »
Un boletín de prensa conjunto con La Via Campesina hace un llamado urgente para que la tierra vuelva a manos campesinas. La lucha por una genuina reforma agraría integral es parte fundamental de la lucha en pos de mejores sistemas alimentarios.
Both the Coca-Cola Company and PepsiCo have vowed to increase their participation in the Committee on World Food Security.
US government reviews efforts to implement voluntary guidelines and go further in legitimising or building consensus around largescale farmland deals
