Our Land Our Struggle

In Our Land, Our Survival, author Line Algoed explores the vital role of communal land in protecting communities and the environment in the wake of disaster. Focusing on Barbuda and Puerto Rico’s Caño Martín Peña area after the 2017 hurricanes, it reveals how land grabbing, displacement, and global capital threaten local ways of life. Against these pressures, communities defend their land, strengthen solidarity, and nurture sustainable practices that benefit both people and nature. Algoed and her coauthors celebrate the resistance and creativity of these communities, showing how their alternative ways of owning and managing land over powerful lessons for survival, justice, and a more equitable future. 

Our Land, Our Survival also includes contributions from authors Antonio Carmona Báez, Ellen M. Bassett, María E. Hernández Torrales, and Lyvia N. Rodriguez Del Valle.

“Collective landholding has served as a ‘strategy of resistance.’ It has allowed communities to withstand displacement pressures from land-clearing hurricanes and land-grabbing capitalists who predictably appear in their wake. It has enabled devastated communities to recover more quickly and to develop more equitably.” JOHN EMMEUS DAVIS (from the Foreword)

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