'Land grab' report highlights growing interest from speculators in ‘flex’ crops like soya, palm oil and sugarcane that can be used for biofuels or food
… Biofuels not food the biggest driver of 'land grabbing' deals, says report Laurie … | 18th December 2011 News Food And Farming Land Grab Africa Deforestation Palm Oil landrights.jpg More the 50 per cent of …
Across Africa, corporations are grabbing community land and water - and nowhere more than in Liberia, where half the country has already been lost. But one community has shown it's possible to overcome intimidation, organize and resist.
… When our land is free, we're all free Silas … Siakor Jacinta Fay | 7th May 2014 News Land Grabs Africa Farming Indigenous Peoples … Africa, corporations are grabbing community land and water - and nowhere more than in …
Development secretary Justine Greening is facing questions over UK involvement in a massive land-grab in Nigeria that is evicting local farmers from 300 square kilometres of fertile farmland to clear the way for a rice farm owned and controlled from the US and Canada. A 45,000-strong community faces landlessness and destitution.
… farmers face destitution from 300 sq.km land grab backed by UK aid Oliver Tickell | 28th January 2015 News Land Grabs Nigeria Africa Farming Corporations Development gassol-lands.jpg Development secretary Justine …
Liberia's Jogbahn Clan is at the forefront of efforts to resist the grab of Indigenous Peoples' land and forests for palm oil plantations. But according to the country's President, they are only 'harrassing and extorting' international investors.
… - communities join to fight the palm oil land grab Jacinta Fay Silas Kpanan'Ayoung … Siakor | 18th July 2014 News Food Farming Land Grabs Indigenous Peoples Liberia Africa … to resist the grab of Indigenous Peoples' land and forests for palm oil plantations. But …
Indonesia's move to bring in a two-year moratorium on new palm oil plantations to protect its remaining rainforests has seen agribusiness giants like Sime Darby switch expansion plans to Cameroon, Ghana and Liberia
… Palm oil giants target Africa in 'land grab' following Indonesia deforestation … Ghana and Liberia The sudden upsurge in land deals by palm oil companies in Africa … to large-scale deforestation and loss of farmland by local communities, NGOs and …
Commuting between land rights negotiations in the city and herding goats on the plains, Edward Loure is at once a traditional Maasai and a modern urbanite, writes Sophie Morlin-Yron. That ability to straddle the two very different worlds he inhabits has been key to his success at having 200,000 acres of land registered into village and community ownership - and his own 2016 Goldman Prize.
… Securing communal land rights for Tanzania's Indigenous Peoples … Africa Indigenous Peoples Farming The Land Commons 2016_edwardloure_06-cut.jpg Commuting between land rights negotiations in the city and …
Australia's nuclear industry has a shameful history of 'radioactive racism' that dates from the British bomb tests in the 1950s, writes Jim Green. The same attitudes persist today with plans to dump over half a million tonnes of high and intermediate level nuclear waste on Aboriginal land, and open new uranium mines. But now Aboriginal peoples and traditional land owners are fighting back!
… level nuclear waste on Aboriginal land, and open new uranium mines. But now Aboriginal peoples and traditional land owners are fighting back! From 1998-2004, … a national nuclear waste dump on Aboriginal land in South Australia. Then the government …
Across Africa, laws are being rewritten to open farming up to an agribusiness invasion - displacing the millions of small cultivators that now feed the continent, and replacing them with a new model of profit-oriented agriculture using patented seeds and varieties. The agencies effecting the transformation are legion - but they are all marching to a single drum.
… Land and seed laws under attack as Africa is … raging for control of resources in Africa - land, water, seeds, minerals, ores, forests, … the agribusiness agenda. Privatising both land and seeds is essential for the corporate …
With rich, resource-poor nations increasingly outsourcing their food production to less developed nations, a new website aims to expose the extent of the agricultural land-grab epidemic
… Extent of agricultural land-grab revealed on new website Eifion Rees … to buy a third of all Madagascar's arable land led to the fall of the country's … aims to expose the extent of the agricultural land-grab epidemic South Korea’s biggest is …
A small community in Uganda is challenging a UN-backed international oil palm venture that has expropriated small farmers and obliterated an entire forest on a Lake Victoria island to establish a vast plantation. Three years after the grab, Friends of the Earth groups are backing the islanders legal action, which is launched today.
… banks and oil palm giants feast on the stolen land of Uganda's dispossessed Anne van Schaik … February 2015 News Un Corporations Forests Land Grabs Africa Uganda Food Farming … John Muyiisa is one of the Bugula islanders dispossessed by the IFAD-supervised …
Sugar may seem innocuous enough, but sweet-toothed Western consumers could be fuelling conflict between poor farming communities and big business with every spoonful. Sam Campbell reports from Phnom Penh
… has been devastating. Families have been made landless and driven into destitution and … evictions, seizure and clearance of farmers’ land and crops, destruction of forests, … She claimed that she had lived on her land since 1975, making it her legal property …
An explosive mix of animals, people and economics means that land in Africa is becoming more valuable - and more contested - than ever
… Who needs Africa's land more: us or wildlife? Thembi Mutch | 29th … of animals, people and economics means that land in Africa is becoming more valuable - and … Both wildlife and people need access to land. In both cases, the numbers are …
Last November Tanzania's President Kikwete tweeted his promise that the evictions of indigenous Maasai people and their villages near Serengeti National Park would stop. But now another round of evictions is under way: thousands of Maasai have been evicted at gunpoint and their homes burnt to ashes. The Maasai say: 'We need your help!'
… a 1,500 square km area of Maasai community land in 1992. Since then OBC has built a … indigenous Maasai people from accessing their land: cutting them off from vital grazing land and water points; pushing the community …
The revolution taking place in Burkina Faso is far more than an uprising of rebellious youth, writes Alexander Reid Ross. It's a genuine fight for national liberation - from neoliberalism, land grabs, corruption and foreign domination - that evokes the freedom struggle of an earlier generation.
… Burkina Faso: climate change, land grabs, and revolution Alexander Reid Ross … for national liberation - from neoliberalism, land grabs, corruption and foreign domination … four decades, as well as an escalation of land grabs since 2008. More land has been …
A new tactic of non-violent resistance secured a future for the people of Apaa, Uganda, after a violent government-backed land grab had threatened to turn their village and farmland over to a sports hunting business, writes Phil Wilmot. The unlikely leader was Anek, a respected grandmother of the village, whose naked protest sent both troops and government ministers packing.
… fought the President for her community's land - and won Phil Wilmot Waging NonViolence … 9th June 2015 Activism Uganda Africa Protest Land Grabs anek-cut.jpg A new tactic of … Uganda, after a violent government-backed land grab had threatened to turn their village …
China led the reclamation of the largest abandoned rice farm in Mozambique, with the blessing of the authorities. But now the company involved is accused of land grabbing and displacing thousands. Cecilia Anesi and Andrea Fama report
… China accused of stealth land grab over Mozambique's great rice project … Anesi Andrea Fama | 30th November 2013 News Land Grabbing China Africa Rice Food And … But now the company involved is accused of land grabbing and displacing thousands. …
The Kwegu people of Ethiopia's Lower Omo Valley are facing starvation because of the loss of their land to a huge sugar plantation, the destruction of their forest and the damming of the Omo river - supported by a UK, EU and World Bank funded 'aid' program.
… Kwegu tribe starves, victims of dam and land grabs Oliver Tickell | 13th March 2015 … Africa Indigenous Peoples UK EU Development Land Grabs Farming Water kwegu in cultivation … starvation because of the loss of their land to a huge sugar plantation, the …
A 'slow genocide' is unfolding in Ethiopia - one driven by greed rather than hatred. With Chinese and World Bank finance, massive dams and plantations are robbing the Omo Valley's 500,000 indigenous people of their land and water. The UK 'sees no evil'.
… Human Rights Watch | 7th April 2014 News Land Grabs Ethiopia Africa Finance Indigenous … Valley's 500,000 indigenous people of their land and water. The UK 'sees no evil'. New … imagery shows extensive clearance of land used by indigenous groups to make way for …
With the deadline due this year for the full implementation of Wilmar's 'No peat, no deforestation, no exploitation' promise, the oil palm giant is keen to push its green image in Europe. But for communities suffering its land grabs in Nigeria, nothing has changed. While Wilmar spins green rhetoric, its bulldozers are still destroying vast swathes of forest and farmland.
… hypocrisy: no end to Wilmar's palm oil land grabs Anne van Schaik Godwin Ojo | 27th … in Europe. But for communities suffering its land grabs in Nigeria, nothing has changed. … destroying vast swathes of forest and farmland. In December 2013 Wilmar adopted a "no …
Agriculture is big business and with the EU pumping money at the sector, the corporate profiteers are holding all the aces, writes Chris Lang. The documentary ‘Land Grabbing’ investigates what happens when well-financed agro-investors take over rural communities' land and water.
… ‘Land Grabbing’: exposing the impacts of … Lang REDD Monitor | 8th February 2016 Reviews Land Grabs Farming Finance EU Romania Cambodia … the aces, writes Chris Lang. The documentary ‘Land Grabbing’ investigates what happens when …
A farming revolution is under way in Africa, pushed by giant corporations and the UK's aid budget. It will surely be good for the global economy, writes Sophie Morlin-Yron, but will Africa's small farmers see the benefit?
… speakers. For her, the main issue was land ownership for farmers - and desperately … law, under which women have no right to land ownership even though 80% of the … 60% of the food. If only a woman could own land - currently passed down from father to …
Corporate interests have skewed the entire development agenda for agriculture in Africa, writes Ian Fitzpatrick. Instead of investing in sustainable, small scale farming along agroecological principles that raise production and support rural communities, governments - including the UK's - are backing destructive industrial farming and land grabs.
… Ian Fitzpatrick | 10th March 2015 News Africa Land Grabs Development Corporations … backing destructive industrial farming and land grabs. There is plenty of evidence that … privileges industrial farming, large-scale land owners and monopolistic corporations, …
The shocking death of Zane Gbangbola, killed by toxic gas from a 'forgotten' landfill under his home, exposes the UK's dangerous legacy of contaminated land, writes Paul Mobbs. Without action, these polluted sites will damage health and even kill for centuries to come. But governments, local authorities, landowners and developers are united in a shameful policy of silence and denial.
… conspiracy of silence over contaminated land must end Paul Mobbs | 6th September 2016 News Waste Pollution Politics England UK Health trespassers-will-cut.jpg The … killed by toxic gas from a 'forgotten' landfill under his home, exposes the UK's …
The jobs and quick money that fracking can generate may seem initially attractive, indigenous Canadian activist Caleb Behn told Jen Stout on his recent visit to Scotland. But after decades of oil and gas production, the ineradicable legacy is of fractured landscapes and long-term pollution. 'My land is bisected, divided, by pipelines, roads, well sites, pads, all that. It's really hard on my heart.'
… no amount of money can restore your fractured land' Jen Stout | 24th November 2016 Comment Fracking UK Canada Scotland Films Indigenous Peoples Pollution … told Jen Stout on his recent visit to Scotland. But after decades of oil and gas …