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Anuradha Mittal - Terra Madre Forum: Take your hands off the Earth!

When: September 24, 1:30pm-3:30pm

Where: Valentino Park and Po River - Torino Esposizioni - Turin University - Sala Gialla Corso Massimo D'Azeglio, 55, 10126 Torino

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Land grabbing is a new form of colonization in developing countries whereby immense tracts of land are sold off or rented at scandalously low prices, with the aim of bringing new investment and infrastructure, owned by capital in the developed word. This has abominable consequences for local communities. Most of the land given up is in Sub-Saharan Africa, yet the practice affects all continents.

Terra Madre Forums are an opportunity for exchange between the delegates and are open to the public while seats last.

This event will be available in Italian, English, French and Spanish.

SPEAKERS:

  1. Anuradha Mittal, Founder of the Oakland Institute – United States

    A renowned expert on trade, development, human rights and agriculture issues, in 2004 she founded the prestigious and innovative Oakland Institute, an independent think tank that works on issues around land rights, agroecology, sustainable food systems and climate change.

  2. Edward Loure Ole Parmelo – Tanzania

    Maasai tribe leader as well as a management graduate. He fights against land grabbing in his home country, having already saved 80.000 hectares of Maasai land in Tanzania. He is the winner of the 2016 Goldman Environmental Prize for Africa (the so-called Green Nobel) and the Program Coordinator for the Simanjiro District (in northern Tanzania’s Manyara region) with non-profit Ujamaa Community Resource Team (UCRT).

  3. Nyikaw Ochalla – Ethiopia

    Anuak indigenous leader, living in exile in the UK, and former Governor of the Gambella region in Ethiopia, an area that has been a key target for forced relocations and land grabbing by the Ethiopian Government. Founder of the Anywaa Survival Organization.

  4. Andrew Orina – Kenya Programs Manager in FoLT (Friends of Lake Turkana)

    Coordinator of the Kenya Wetlands Forum (KWF) until July 2014. He was part of the team that authored the National Wetlands Conservation and Management Strategy and Action Plan 2015-2025. He also helped develop “EntVenture”, an Android forestry game/app that is aimed to increase awareness of forest conservation. He is currently the Programs Manager for Friends of Lake Turkana, and he is responsible in designing programs and more specifically, looking at the role of communal land in the food production and development.

  5. Mamy Rakotondrainibe –Madagascar

    One of the organizers of the TANY Collective (Collectif pour la défense des terres malgaches), which supports the struggle of farmers and citizens in Madagascar against landgrabbing. The group was formed in Paris in 2008 following a massive landgrabbing project by Daewoo Logistics came to light.

  6. Néstor Joaquín Mendieta Cruz (Colombia)

    A surgeon from the National University of Colombia with a Masters degree in Educational and Social Development. Founding member and food security coordinator for Corporación Obusinga. Convivium Leader of Slow Food Bucaramanda. Member of Ashoka, the worldwide network of social entrepreneurs.

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