AGTER

AGTER's Online Knowledge Base

Michel Merlet — 2013-12-31T11:18:41Z

The Charles Leopold Mayer Foundation supports AGTER's work on this knowlegdebase website. It puts together several folders on specific issues, and many other papers.
Files of AGTER's Online Knowledge Base. Sharing power and natural resources governance [20 papers] (English; some articles also in French) Lessons Learned from Niger's Rural Code [8 papers and 4 films] (English and French) Land issues in West Africa. Briefing notes. [17 papers] (English and French) Agricultural Land Policies (…)

- Tools and Method

AGTER's method

2007-04-02T13:37:19Z

So that a new governance of land and natural resources can be promoted, a deep change in our way of thinking must take place. Our method enables us to identify the forerunner signs and the sparks of this revolution of governance.
AGTER and the network it runs establish the means of observation which are necessary to identify, take inventory and compare what is moving in the world relating to management of land and natural resources: new forms of social engagement private management of (…)

- Tools and Method

The World Forum on Agrarian Reform (WFAR) in Valence. December 2004

2007-04-02T12:48:26Z

A Spanish NGO, the CERAI, [Centro de Estudios Rurales y de Agricultura Internacional] coordinated the organization of a “thematic forum” of the World Social Forum on Agrarian Reform. It gathered more than 500 delegates of peasant and indigenous organizsations, non governmental organizations, academic and public institutions coming from 72 countries worldwide.
The objectives of the World Forum on Agrarian Reform (WFAR) were : to bring forward the question of agrarian reform on the agenda (…)

- The roots

Links between AGTER's creation and the World Social Forum (WSF)

2007-02-28T23:47:15Z

These works have been carried out in the context of the World Social Forum (WSF) and other related Forums or Conferences. Thus it is noteworthy that the substance of the Notebook of Propositions on Agrarian Reforms and Land Policies has been largely elaborated during the two-days workshop organized during the World Forum of Porto Alegre in 2001 by the APM networks, the IRAM, and the Brazilian farmers confederation (CONTAG) .
During the World Forum on Food Sovereignty in The Havana in (…)

- The roots

More than 10 years of network dynamics

2007-02-26T22:39:43Z

The methodology adopted by AGTER has largely been inspired by the work carried out within the framework of the Family Farming and Globalization Network supported by the Charles Léopold Mayer Foundation from 1990 to 2002. The first step in the process of elaboration of sustainable, fair, and fraternal alternative proposals in the field of land and natural ressources management has been the preparation of Proposal Notebooks for the 21st century related to land policies and agrarian reforms, (…)

- The roots

Addressing new needs

2007-02-18T22:11:07Z

New forms of struggles and new needs
There are today new kinds of struggles organized by the actors of the civil society. The altermondialist movement illustrates these new kinds of struggles.
Nowadays, the objectives of these struggles are to force change at levels of decision-making that are well above those in which one can participate by the usual democratic mechanisms. The objectives encompass not only national but international issues – the latter no less fundamental to solving (…)

- What is at stake? What do we want to do?

A network and an association

2006-11-08T16:14:55Z

Our perception of the best methods of governance of land and natural resources will evolve progressively and collectively, because of our collaborative ways of working (as explained earlier). We intend to create the ways and means to promote and spread civil society's views and proposals on governance. The mechanism that we use must have a realistic timeline, and be flexible and adaptable. It will rely on two distinct structures: The heart of the operation: A worldwide network of people (…)

- Tools and Method

Stakes of land, water and natural ressources governance

2006-09-25T13:44:37Z

Conflicts around the world over land, water, and natural resources are happening more and more frequently. They are also more and more serious, and concern at the same time:
– access to resources; and
– recognition and management of the rights of the different individual and collective – as well as private and public – actors.
The part of the ‘common good' that is the land – soils, forests, water and maritime resources – is not sufficiently recognised.
It is also less and less (…)

- What is at stake? What do we want to do?