land grabbing: 1/3 of 3
'Stop robbing land from the poorest' urges UN food expert
Tom Levitt and Jemima Roberts
25th October, 2010
Improving smallholder rights to the land they depend on is becoming more of a necessity as farmland speculation and competition between food and energy crops threatens their tenure more...
World bank hints Africa is ‘quick win’ for land grabbing investors
Ecologist
14th September, 2010
Report on land-grabbing reveals large-scale farmland deals amounted to 45 million hectares in 2009 alone with 6 million hectares expected to be added every year in less industrialised countriesmore...
Foreign land grabbing leaves Filipino farmers with nothing
Theodora Tsentas
26th July, 2010
Advocates of foreign ownership of agricultural land say it brings wealth, infrastructure and new farming techniques; opponents say that displaced and deskilled smallholders are often the result more...
land grabbing: 1/3 of 3
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