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Investors should work with farmers, not grab their land
2013-09-20 08:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Land grabbing has become a hot topic in the international development community and beyond. The term usually refers to the acquisition of large areas of land by powerful investors, without respecting the rights and interests of the local users like farmers, herders and foresters. Estimates vary widely because of the difficulty of collecting reliable data, but it can be assumed that at least 30m hectares have been targeted by large-scale land transactions over the past decade. While not all...
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Villagers occupy govt office in Indonesia Borneo in protest against palm oil land grab
2013-09-18 22:21:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: Villagers in Indonesias Central Kalimantan province occupied a local government office last week, fed up with the governments lack of action to resolve a long-running land dispute with palm oil company PT Rezeki Alam Semesta Raya. Around 29 villagers occupied the Kuala Kapuas district head office in Central Kalimantan on Thursday. The residents of Sei Ahas, Katimpun, Kalumpang and Pulau Kaladan villages demanded the company return nearly 3,000 hectares of customary land, which they said was...
Grab the banana to win in Hasbro's Chasin' Cheeky game
2013-08-13 01:28:32| Toys - Topix.net
Have you ever noticed that preschools are always moving? Put all that energy to good use in the Chasin Cheeky game from Hasbro.
Greenpeace reveals Chinese state coal company's ruthless water grab
2013-07-23 07:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Greenpeace: A state-owned Chinese coal company is overexploiting groundwater and illegally dumping toxic industrial wastewater, highlighting the need to curb the country's burgeoning coal industry, Greenpeace East Asia has revealed. In the report 'Thirsty Coal 2' [1], Greenpeace East Asia reveals that the Shenhua Group, the world's biggest coal producer by volume, is exploiting water resources in Inner Mongolia at a shocking scale. Shenhua's operations have sparked social unrest and caused severe ecological...
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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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