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WEBSep 25, 2024 — Industrial plantations: stop endangering local farmers, Indigenous knowledge, and food system models – land-grab victims. Emotions, tears, and testimonies exposing the dark side of industrial agriculture rocked activities to mark the International Day of Struggle against industrial plantations 2024 celebrations in Uganda.
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WEBSep 11, 2024 — Why commercial agribusinesses resort to backward integration – Gov. Sule. Business Day; 11 September 2024 The Governor of Nigeria's Nasarawa State says the implementation of the Framework for Responsible Investment in Land-Intensive Agriculture (FRILIA), part of a World Bank economic transformation agenda programme, will attract large-scale private agricultural investments.
Land grab? The race for the world's farmland - farmlandgrab.org
WEBThe race for the world's farmland. The world is experiencing a grain rush. With increasing frequency, food-importing countries and private investors are acquiring farmland across the developing world. This new publication marks one of the first efforts in the United States to bring together perspectives from international organizations, farmers ...
How to resist the expanding global land grab - farmlandgrab.org
WEBMar 19, 2024 — Mali made headlines as a hotbed of the global land grab in the wake of the 2008 food price crisis when massive tracts of its arable red earth were swept up by foreign investors. The ensuing rural devastation and displacement reflected a bleak new reality for peasant communities throughout the Global South. At the time, Mali had not passed a ...
The state of the global farmland grab, according to the Land Matrix
WEBOct 27, 2021 — The Land Matrix Initiative, a collaboration between academic research institutes and the International Land Coalition, has just released a new report on large scale land acquisitions – as they call them – in the agricultural sector worldwide. The report accounts for 33 million hectares which international investors have acquired for agricultural production since 2000.
Land squeeze: Soaring land prices, grabs and carbon schemes …
WEBMay 12, 2024 — Soaring land prices, land grabs, and carbon schemes are creating an unprecedented ‘land squeeze’, threatening farmers and food production, reveals a comprehensive new report today by IPES-Food. The report comes as land issues rise up the global agenda – with the World Bank holding a conference on ‘Securing Land Tenure and Access for Climate Action’ in Washington DC this week, a ...
farmlandgrab.org | Charts: The top 5 land-grabbing countries
WEBAnd as Mother Jones blogger Tom Philpott has noted, the grabbers have an average per capita GDP about five times the size of the grabbed. Take a look at the top five land-grabbing countries below and their respective claims: Top Global Land Poachers by Area Grabbed, 2002 to 2012 Israel United Arab Emirates China United States United Kingdom 4 5 ...
Carbon credit land grab dispossesses Global South communities: …
WEBSep 27, 2024 — Communal lands the combined size of Portugal have been taken over by corporate interests for carbon offsetting schemes across the Global South, according to a new report that warns of a “new form of land grabbing.”. The report by GRAIN, a nonprofit supporting small farmers, identified 9.1 million hectares (22.5 million acres) of land, more than half of it in Africa, that had undergone such ...
About farmlandgrab.org
WEBAbout farmlandgrab.org. This website contains news about the global rush to buy or lease farmlands by agribusiness, governments and financial investors -- and people’s resistance against it. Its purpose is to serve as a resource for those monitoring, researching or organising around the issue, particularly activists, non-government ...
What is land grabbing? A critical review of existing definitions
WEBJan 8, 2016 — A critical review of existing definitions. by Katelyn Baker-Smith and Szocs Boruss Miklos-Attila. Land grabbing is a serious issue that affects the environment, economy, social welfare and human rights. Despite the global reach of land grabbing, there is no definition that fully captures the issue. Here, Eco Ruralis presents not only its ...