Unmasking Rogue Capitalism
Communities around the world are being dispossessed of their lands and natural resources by a set of financial actors. Defending peoples' sovereignty is fundamental to ensuring food sovereignty and promoting more just and harmonious ways of inhabiting the world. This requires agrarian reform at the global level.
Introduction
Rural and urban populations around the world are experiencing a dramatic increase in the dispossession and destruction of their lands, rivers, oceans, pastures, forests and homes. They face the loss of access to and effective control over their territories, the very basis of their livelihoods and the social fabric of their communities. Following an analysis carried out by organisations from around the world that are part of the Land, Water, Forests and Territory Working Group of the International Planning Committee for Food Sovereignty (IPC-Territory WG), we concluded that the cause of this dramatic increase has been “rogue capitalism”. At the same time, we wanted to expose its consequences for communities and bring to the fore the peoples’ struggles for alternative economic and social models, based on agroecology and self-determination.