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Challenges facing the Brazilian Peasantry: The UNDROP as a Tool for Struggle
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Putting Peasants Rights Into Practice
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Peasants’ right to seed – Briefing paper by the Working Group on peasants and other people working in rural areas
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ICARRD+20 must move beyond technocratic fixes to implement real, integral agrarian reform: Global Social Movements in Cartagena
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Fact sheet on the UN Working Group on UNDROP
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