18 April 2012
Observatory about agrarian conflicts
A small tool for the Via Campesina - International Peasant Movement to visualize agrarian conflicts
The Central American activists from La Via
Campesina asked my to help them to
build an easy tool as an online *observatory* for agrarian
conflicts. Today, on the
International Day of Peasant's Struggle, this website has gone online.
Built with Drupal it was an easy task to create
rapidly an useful tool to store the information and visualize such
important incident for the global unity among peasants, landless, women
farmers and rural youth.
Conflicts of the region are visible on a map. To provide the browsable
map, we use the solution from the folks of
Mapbox to have a nice looking map and the
geographical information from the
OpenStreetMap project.
In a second step, we will aggregate functionality for everybody to export the, under a free and open license provided, information about these conflicts.