STWR - Share The World's Resources

The privatisation of water means that profits spring from the fact that the poor population for whom it is harder and harder to get safe drinking water is growing. We must create a movement to take back control of the water that is so essential to our lives, says Sakuma Tomoko.

Western companies are pushing to acquire vast stretches of African land to meet the world's biofuel needs. Local farmers and governments are being showered with promises. But is this just another form of economic colonialism? By Horand Knaup.

South Africa must recognise the role of land rent in the economy and consider radical economic changes - without leaving land redistribution to the market under the "willing buyer, willing seller" principle, writes Mark Braund.

The energy crisis and our over-dependency on oil demands a total restructuring of the global economy toward the self-sufficient and small scale, and signals the end to the transnational corporation, writes A.K. Gupta.

The tragedy of the commons - which asserts that human beings are helpless prisoners of biology and the market - is a useful political myth, and a scientific-sounding way of saying that there is no alternative to the dominant world order, writes Ian Angus.

Water and sanitation are not far behind the food, energy and climate crises - and the causes of water scarcity are essentially identical to those of the food crisis, say development analysts. Reported by Thalif Deen.

A gathering of international thinkers, artists, and activists is inspiring a new revolution in the right to water and what belongs to the commons. By Jay Walljasper.