Land Reform and Rural Development

Land Reform and rural development remain slow and even limited. The fact that the Ministry of Agriculture is delinked from land reform suggests that government will continue to have pressure from commercial agriculture and there approach to small scale and subsistence agriculture will continue along the same trajectory as previously. This is already evident from recent Department of Rural Development and Land Reform (DRDLR) M E data: 3,900 households benefitting per year in period 2001/2- 2005/6 2,000...

Read More..

TCOE vision and mission

VisionTCOE envisages a society where the rural poor, both men and women, have access and rights to land, marine and other natural resources for food security and the creation of sustainable livelihoods – a society that is responsive to the needs of the poor and that recognises and values the potential of all its citizens. MissionTCOE commits itself to building a mass based national formation of poor rural peoples organisations with strong, democratic and accountable leadership that is able to organise,...

Read More..

TCOE Strat Plan

Building a national movement and organisation of the rural poor that can represent their interests, needs and demands. Accessing and auditing staff leadership skills and capacity to support the shifts and the restructuring in TCOE. Create a team of leaders that are well informed and can lead the local work and campaigns. Create consciousness and demand for alternative agrarian reform models as a key strategy for livelihoods and food security. Develop a campaign to access land/marine resources for livelihoods. Develop and profile the needs of...

Read More..

	RESEARCH & INFORMATION
	View our archives and download our research material.

	TALK 2 US - FEEDBACK
	Give us your feedback. Your input is important to us.

	DONATE TO TCOE
	Please donate to TCOE Your donnations help.

IF RIO+20 IS TO DELIVER, ACCOUNTABILITY MUST BE AT ITS HEART

An Open Letter from Special Procedures mandate-holders of the Human Rights Council to States negotiating the Outcome Document of the Rio+20 Summit

As independent experts of the Human Rights Council, we call on States to incorporate universally agreed international human rights norms and standards in the Outcome Document of the Rio+20 Summit with strong accountability mechanism to ensure its implementation.1

The United Nations system has been building progressively our collective understanding of human rights and development through a series of key historical moments of international cooperation, from the adoption of the Universal Declaration on Human Rights in December 1948 to the Millennium Declaration in September 2000 that inspired the Millennium Development Goals to the and the World Summit Outcome Document in October 2005. Strategies based on the protection and realization of all human rights are vital for sustainable development and the practical effectiveness of our actions.

URGENT support to Malian farmers from CNOP Mali

Dear friends,

FIAN has received an urgent call for support from CNOP, the National Coordination of the Peasants' Organizations of Mali, an organization that works closely with peasant communities against land grabbing.

The letter of support that you find attached to this correspondence has been sent by CNOP and four other organizations that have formed a national coalition against land grabbing.

We invite you to sign the letter and send it to the Malian Prime Minister to support the Malian peasants in their mobilization against land grabbing:http://www.primature.gov.ml/index.php?option=com_ckforms&view=ckforms&id=1&Itemid=100006.

Outrage as GM labelling laws flouted in SA

Johannesburg, South Africa, 13 March 2011

The African Centre for Biosafety (ACB) is outraged that several food products, including baby cereal, maize meal consumed as a staple, a renown and heavily promoted dietary supplement for active sports people and wheat free cereal, have tested positive for GM- yet are all unlabelled.

From the 1 October 2011, food producers, importers and packagers are required by law, in terms of the Consumer Protection Act and its Regulations, to label GM foods and marketing materials where the genetically modified (GM) content is at least 5%. In other words, the trigger for labelling is where the GM content is 5% or more.

(TCOE) Trust for Community Outreach and Education’s Budget 2012 Statement

For TCOE Minister Gordhan 2012 Budget has to be assessed against the backdrop of on-going and deepening poverty, unemployment and landlessness of the rural poor.
One of the main announcements yesterday was the massive infrastructure spending. This was to support President Zuma’s State of the Nation address and the ANC’s drive towards creating the long-promised million jobs. Accordingly, over the next three years it is intended to spend R845 billion on capital projects in the energy (R300bn) and transport and logistics (R200bn) sectors. However, little is said about the fact that huge infra-structure expenditure is only useful if it is linked to sustainable capital projects like the establishment of State-owned and driven housing projects. The World Cup stadium building projects showed us how wasteful short-term low-paid jobs actually are. It would be great if the Minister could spell out whether the resources allocated to transport is to rebuild a decent public transport system, including rail that could service the rural poor as well. Building a decent public transport system can create much needed permanent jobs and skills. Our country needs nurses, health workers, teachers and police –this is where we should be creating jobs.

More Articles...