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Since the first Gold Rush 160 years ago, Australian history has been tainted by a conflict between mining and indigenous land rights. Aboriginal communities have long been excluded or abandoned by government – forced off their lands into settlements and ignored in terms of health care, resulting in statistics that […]

Grassroots movements such as the MST and activists such as Ribeiro are crucial to democratisation and reform in Brazilian society.

Over the past couple of years, large-scale acquisitions of farmland in Africa, Asia, and Latin America have made headlines in media reports across the world. Dubbed “land grabs” in the media, these investments have kindled much international debate, in which strong positions have been taken on the impacts of such […]