The Rio+20 Earth summit must back peasant farmers on land rights

The Rio+20 Earth summit must back peasant farmers on land rights.

The agenda for the upcoming Earth summit in Rio this June has a glaring hole: land rights.

An unprecedented corporate privatisation and enclosure of the world's common lands – its pastures, fields and forests – is being done in the name of development. But much of it will destroy development and impoverish the poorest.