Peru is in hot competition with Brazil to be the main focus of Amazonian deforestation, writes Clément Doleac. A neoliberal government desperate to hand over the country's forests, oil, gas, minerals and indigenous lands for corporate exploitation is unafraid to break national laws, turn a blind eye to air and water pollution, and respond to any challenges with overwhelming violence.
… catastrophe. Deforestation and economic development Economic growth has been set as … with a titling process that promotes the development of the agro-industry in the … in the region. [6] The link between the development of infrastructure and …
Leaked documents show that Natural England, the official wildlife agency, is to increase its income from 'discretionary chargeable advice' to developers and landowners, writes EMMA HOWARD - while also failing to prosecute wildlife crime or challenge damaging developments.
… News Conservation Politics UK Corporations Development pennine-bog-cut.jpg Leaked … wildlife crime or challenge damaging developments. England's top natural … and at the national level around policy development" The document is understood to …
As the EU prepares to vote on whether to re-authorise glyphosate this week, a new study finds that commercial formulations of the herbicide alter the development of rats' uteruses, potentially causing cancer and affecting fertility.
… Glyphosate disrupts rats' uterine development GMWatch | 21st June 2016 News … formulations of the herbicide alter the development of rats' uteruses, potentially … fertility. Glyphosate herbicide disrupts the development of the uterus of female rats when …
Resistance is growing in Todos Santos, Baja California, to a tourism and University campus mega-development of 4,500 homes that claims to be 'free range and locally sourced', writes Viviane Mahieux. It has already grossly disfigured one of Mexico most gorgeous beaches, while locals fear it will drain their aquifers and obliterate a harmonious community.
… Colorado State campus mega-development steals Mexican beach - you call … 2015 Activism Mexico USA Education Water Development Corporations … to a tourism and University campus mega-development of 4,500 homes that claims to be …
The Gates Foundation - widely assumed to be 'doing good', is imposing a neoliberal model of development and corporate domination that's opening up Africa's agriculture to land and seed-grabbing global agribusiness, writes Colin Todhunter. In the process it is foreclosing on the real solutions - enhancing food security, food sovereignty and the move to agroecological farming.
… January 2016 News Africa Farming Corporations Development GMOs Seeds bill-melinda-cut.jpg … good', is imposing a neoliberal model of development and corporate domination that's … distorting the direction of international development. With assets of $43.5 billion, the …
The green belt is part of the critical green infrastructure that delivers multiple benefits for cities, writes Alister Scott. It provides space for recreation, biodiversity and farms supplying local food. It protects us from flooding and drought, improves air quality and mitigates the urban heat island effect. In short, it's far too valuable to allow developers to build all over it!
… surrounding the city, protected from development by law. This 'green belt' would … towns, safeguard the countryside from development and encourage the regeneration and … In fact, national planning policy encourages development on greenfield sites through the …
Groups representing over 5 million Nigerians are resisting Monsanto's attempt to introduce GM maize and cotton, writes Vanessa Amaral-Rogers. With growing evidence of harm to human health and environment, and failing GM crops in other countries, they say Monsanto's applications must be refused.
… Resources (COVER) Community Research and Development Centre (CRDC) Ijaw Mothers of … African Centre for Leadership, Strategy & Development Institute of Human Rights and … Centre for Environment, Human Rights and Development (CEHRD) Ogoni Solidarity Forum …
The real reason why 'golden rice' remains uncultivated after a 20 year effort is its poor agronomic performance, write Angelika Hilbeck & Hans Herren. But beyond that, the very idea of golden rice as a 'solution' to Vitamin A deficiency fails to recognise the real causes of malnutrition - poverty, hunger and poor diet. How will golden rice reach poor children in the first place? And will they ever get the rich, oily diet they need to assimilate its fat-soluble nutrients?
… future and which path to take for our joint development. A division we see growing and … track record in agriculture, food production, development, or the socio-ecological and … least in the economic and social domains of development, poverty, and hunger - are not …
The Sustainable Development Goals are a wish list that few could disagree with, writes Nick Dearden. But the delivery plan is to rely on 'free' markets, corporations and technocratic government - although these 'solutions' are at the root of the problems the SDGs aim to solve.
… UN development goals miss the point: it's all … Justice Now | 28th September 2015 Comment Un Development Corporations obama-un-cut.jpg The Sustainable Development Goals are a wish list that few …
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.
… Grabs Nigeria Africa Farming Corporations Development gassol-lands.jpg Development secretary Justine Greening is … Diane Abbott MP has written to the Development Secretary Justine Greening to ask …
Coroprate tax dodging is costing developing countries $212 billion a year, writes Toby Quantrill, and promised action by the OECD has been a damp squib. Now independent experts have come up with their own answers to the problem - beginning with an end to the 'separate entity' fiction that allows profits to be siphoned to shell companies in zero-tax jurisdictions.
… | 5th June 2015 Activism Corporations Development tax-haven-cut.jpg Coroprate tax … the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) with tackling multinational … Aid. Toby has worked in international development for more than twenty years, on …
To understand how technology is used in the real world we must appreciate who owns and controls it, writes Colin Todhunter: whose interests it serves, and how it works in an economic system driven by profit, geopolitics and the compulsion to capture and control markets - while the monopolists proclaim a noble ideology of 'free choice' and 'democracy'.
… Feeding the bank balance: GMOs, development and the politics of happiness … dovetails with an urban-centric model of 'development' underpinned by 'free trade' and … destruction, all to fuel a model of development which effectively such the …
The world is in the grip of a 'fracking frenzy that threatens us for centuries to come with polluted aquifers, runaway climate change, destruction of biodiversity and worthless 'sub-prime' investments. Just as the world must make the transition to a sustainable future, our 'leaders' are determined to make this last losing throw of the fossil fuel dice.
… the most common arguments used to promote the development of shale resources is that shale … the consequences for climate change of global development of the fracking industry. Natural … agencies have warned that the world-wide development of the fracking industry will not …
BRENDAN MONTAGUE investigates how Brexiteers are seeking to redefine protected wildlife as a “scourge” to industry in part one of a new three-part series on EU environmental protections
… of our natural environment, and supporting development end economic prosperity, is the … represents household names such as Barratt Developments and Crest Nicholson and smaller … for the first time a presumption against development unless in accordance with …
New research indicates that agricultural policies aimed at alleviating poverty in Africa are making things worse, writes Lawrence Woodward. Backed by 'development' aid, big business is forcing modern farming practices on unwilling rural communities. Only the rich benefit, while the poor carry the burden of landlessness and debt.
… Woodward | 11th February 2016 News Farming Development Africa Corporations The Land … against the Department for International Development's involvement with the 'New … worse, writes Lawrence Woodward. Backed by 'development' aid, big business is forcing …
The UK government has showered £500 million of its aid budget on 'partnerships' with global corporations that are meant to help the poor, writes Kevin Smith. Surprise - an independent assessment has found that the only ones to benefit were the companies themselves. This ideologically-driven farce must stop now!
… Corporations Politics Economics Education Development UK school children in sierra … aid agenda and stated: "Capitalism and development was Britain's gift to the world. … helping poor countries kick-start growth and development." Six years and hundreds of …
Montana legislators have brushed off the attempts of farmers, ranchers and landowners to effect 'zoning' regulations to protect them, their land, their water and their livestock from the toxic impacts of fracking. Now they say: 'See you in Court!'.
… giving landowners an essential voice in the development of oil and gas on their … ecosystem Although some oil and gas development has occurred in Carbon County for … law empowers landowners to initiate the development of zoning regulations for the …
Israel desperately covets Gaza's gas as a 'cheap stop-gap' yielding revenues of $6-7 billion a year, writes Nafeez Ahmed. The UK's BG and the US's Noble Energy are lined up to do the dirty work - but first Hamas must be 'uprooted' from Gaza, and Fatah bullied into cutting off its talks with Russia's Gazprom.
… President Mahmoud Abbas Abu-Mazen over development of the Gaza Marine reservoir. "The … had previously "refrained from ordering development of the Noa field, fearing that … license over Gaza's offshore resources, over development of the reserves. According to the …
Botum Sakor national park is one of Cambodia's biodiversity hotspots, where indigenous tribes have long lived in harmony with the forest and its wildlife, writes Rod Harbinson. But now they are being violently evicted as the park is being sold off piecemeal to developers for logging, plantations, casinos and hotels. Now local communities are defending themselves and their land.
… | 24th March 2015 News Forests Cambodia Development Corporations Indigenous Peoples … of the resort's developers the Tianjin Union Development Group (UDG). Soon villagers set up … a high-stakes level that will dwarf similar developments in the region. The centrepiece of …
France, Germany and other wealthy countries have positive policies on climate change, writes Steven Herz. So why are they handing out back door financing for new coal power stations abroad via 'export credits'? Over $5 billion from EU countries since 2007 ...
… and Korea. This is not about providing energy development assistance for impoverished … countries. In fact, the world's leading development institutions have recognized that … coal power rarely provides a good deal for development. Coal imposes intolerable hidden …
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.
… Africa Food Farming Seeds Corporations Un Development sorghum-cut.jpg Across Africa, … Governments, corporations, foundations and development agencies are pushing hard to … They include the World Bank, the African Development Bank, the United Nations Food and …
UNESCO's Lake Ohrid-Prespa Biosphere Reserve at Mount Galicica, Macedonia, is at risk from a raft of aggressive developments, write Elena Nikolovska & Daniel Scarry: tourism complexes, a new expressway and ski resort all threaten its tranquility and stunning diversity of wildlife, backed by loans from the EU's taxpayer-funded Bank, the EBRD.
… is at risk from a raft of aggressive developments, write Elena Nikolovska & Daniel … by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) certainly seems to confuse … the imminent future direction of regional development, present a vision of almost …
The decision to postpone constructing a new nuclear plant in Wales has left a hole in the UK’s post-Brexit, low carbon energy plans.
… to postpone the Wyfla nuclear power station development in Anglesey, as well as its … plant at Moorside in Cumbria. The proposed developments by Chinese firm CGN at Sizewell … the UK leaving the EU threatens their development and operation. After Brexit the UK …