STWR - Share The World's Resources

Land reform, one of Lugo's main campaign pledges, has become a hot issue requiring an urgent response from the government since the death of campesino (peasant) leader Bienvenido Melgarejo in a violent eviction of landless peasants from a farm in the northeastern department (province) of Alto Paraná on Oct. 3. Reported by Natalia Ruiz Díaz.

Global water mismangement and free-market logic will lead to a 'humanitarian crisis' and international 'water wars' - all the more reason to cooperatively share our resources and cut excess consumption, argues Juliette Jowit.

Simultaneous food and financial crises have, in tandem, triggered a new global land grab that if left unchecked could spell the end of small-scale farming and rural livelihoods in numerous places around the world, argues GRAIN.

The number of urban slum-dwellers worldwide has broken the one billion mark, making it clear that the urbanization of poverty is arguably one of the biggest challenges facing development today, executive director of UN-Habitat, has said. Reported by Nasidi Adamu Yahaya.

US subsidies for nuclear power programmes have triggered a race to build the first commercial reactor in the United States in a generation. However, moving away from fossil fuels also requires government intervention. But nuclear power has costs that will never diminish, argues Tyson Slocum.

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.