A ‘Land Sovereignty’ Alternative? Towards a Peoples’ Counter-Enclosure | Land Portal

Resource information

Date of publication: 
July 2012
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ISBN / Resource ID: 
mokoro:5942

Argues the need to transition the people’s demand for land from ‘land reform’ and ‘land tenure security’ to ‘land sovereignty’. A peoples’ enclosure campaign is needed to help farmers to proactively assert their political control over their remaining lands against potential and actual threats of corporate or state enclosure.

Authors and Publishers

Author(s), editor(s), contributor(s): 

Saturnino M. Borras Jr.
Jennifer C. Franco

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The Transnational Institute (TNI) is an international research and advocacy institute committed to building a just, democratic and sustainable world. For more than 40 years, TNI has served as a unique nexus between social movements, engaged scholars and policy makers.


The Transnational Institute (TNI) is an international research and advocacy institute committed to building a just, democratic and sustainable world.


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