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Food supply fears spark China land grab
2016-09-26 11:26:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate News Network: China is protecting itself against future food supply problems caused by climate change by buying or leasing large tracts of land in Africa and South America, a leading UK climate scientist says. Professor Peter Wadhams, an expert on the disappearing Arctic ice, says that while countries in North America and Europe are ignoring the threat that changing weather patterns are causing to the world food supply, China is taking self-protective action. He says that changes in the jet stream caused by...
Nigerian government urged halt land grab in Ekuri community forest
2016-03-11 10:49:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: A proposed superhighway in southeast Nigeria has prompted calls from locals and the international community to stop what they claim is a land grab in the middle of a celebrated community-managed forest. The people of Old Ekuri and New Ekuri, villages in Cross River State that are collectively known as the Ekuri Community, live in one of Nigerias last surviving rainforests. The two villages co-manage a 33,600-hectare (about 83,000-acre) community-owned forest, one of the largest in West Africa....
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LTE-WiFi Debate Exposes Spectrum Land Grab
2015-05-11 09:40:11| Wireless - Topix.net
When the Federal Communications Commission issued a public notice last week seeking information on LTE-Unlicensed and Licensed Assisted Access , many media outlets tended to frame the news as a technical debate on the possibility of peaceful co-existence between two competing wireless technologies: LTE-U/LAA vs. WiFi. Cellular operators are proposing LTE-U/LAA so that they can use LTE in the unlicensed frequency bands currently used by WiFi.
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Alleged American Land Grab Sets Off a Political Storm in Colombia
2013-07-11 19:11:37| Food - Topix.net
Was it a good-faith investment by a U.S. multinational in Colombia? Or a flagrant land grab? That's what Colombians are debating following revelations that the Minneapolis-based food giant Cargill Inc. acquired nearly 130,000 acres of former government land that had been donated to peasant farmers.
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Cambodias great land grab
2013-05-20 03:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bangkok Post: Ask Sreap Samoen where are the communal grazing lands? Where can local villagers fish and grow crops? The 50-year-old woman with a weather-beaten face points into the distance and says: "It's all gone. The company has it now." She's standing near a cluster of tiny shacks in Cambodia's remote north, hidden in the Dong Nai rubber plantation owned by the Vietnam Rubber Group (VRG). "Many people have lost their land," she says before wandering off. For more than a decade villagers have pestered and...
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