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 …
Last December Brazil's indigenous Peoples defeated the PEC 215 constitutional amendment that was meant to open up their territories for agribusiness, mining, power generation and industry, writes Chris Lang. But now, thanks to 'Chainsaw Queen' Kátia Abreu, minster of agriculture, it's back on the agenda ... and resistance is growing once again.
… 215! No to Brazil's plan to open indigenous lands to industrial exploitation! Chris Lang … July 2015 Activism Brazil Indigenous Peoples Land Grabs Corporations Politics Law … the power to demarcate indigenous peoples' land, conservation units, and Quilombola …
The COP20 host, Peru's President Humala, certainly talked the talk on indigenous rights last September when he signed a $300 million deal with Norway. But his violations of indigenous rights, 'hands off' approach to murders of indigenous leaders and recent unguarded comments betray his true sentiments.
… and Informed Consent (FPIC) to operations on lands to which they hold legal, communal or … hectares the regularization of indigenous lands, specifically native communities (sum of demarcation plus issuing of land right / title) (2017)." This is a …
The Thai government was right to evict an indigenous community from the Kaeng Krachan National Park at gunpoint and burn down homes, a Bangkok court has ruled - even though one resident had lived there for 100 years and the Park was only created in 1981.
… Thailand court: National Park officers 'can burn … 2016 News Indigenous Peoples Law Thailand Conservation army-and-flag-cut.png The … and the Park was only created in 1981. Thailand's Administrative Court has ruled that …
A new investigation of palm oil plantations, companies and auditors has found that the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil is failing to deliver on its promise, writes Chris Lang. Widespread fraud, collusion between auditors and companies, conflicts of interest, and a flawed complaints system mean that RSPO-certified palm oil may be destructively and illegally produced.
… upholds indigenous peoples' rights to their land. Clearing rainforest is forbidden. Areas … auditors failing to identify indigenous land right claims; auditors failing to … oil sectors covers millions of hectares of land across three continents, and NGOs work on …
The World Bank's 'Tropical Forest Action Plan' was an abject failure, writes Chris Lang. Now the same mistakes are being repeated under a new acronym. TFAP is out, REDD is in - but it's still all about corporate control of forests, and blaming deforestation on its victims.
… industrial logging, commercial plantations, landlessness and unjust national land use policies. "In addition, TFAP had been … of REDD and at where REDD is now heading: Landscape REDD. She notes that just as TFAP …
Using carbon markets to 'offset' industrial pollution is a failed experiment of 19 years duration, writes Chris Lang. But the International Civil Aviation Organization, which holds its General Assembly later this month in Montreal, is determined to offset its emissions - up 76% in 12 years - rather than constrain or reduce them.
… industry is looking at. But a vast area of land would be required for biofuel plantations … clearing forests, or taking over agricultural land that is currently used for producing … . Permafrost covers 20% of the earth's land surface. In 2011, Professor Kevin …
The OECD is pursuing a complaint that WWF has funded abuses against the indigenous forest-dwelling Baka or 'Pygmy' peoples of Cameroon, after determining that its human rights guidelines do apply to WWF owing to the 'commercial nature' of its conservation activities.
… Cameroon Africa Corporations Switzerland baka-cut.jpg The OECD is pursuing a … to beat us right there on the road to Elandjoh. They said that we were hunting … But much of this region is the ancestral homeland of the Baka 'Pygmies', who have lived in …
For years the 'market mantra' has been to save forests by selling the carbon they embody, writes Chris Lang, harnessing the profit motive for the benefit of trees and climate. But it never worked, and now even former fans are admitting that REDD is just another failed conservation fad. So what next? How about asking local communities to manage their forests as commons?
… Society), Christine Padoch and Terry Sunderland (both at CIFOR), define fads as " … (REDD); conservation concessions; and landscape approaches that integrate … more standing that cleared for alternative land uses. The authors note that the idea of …
Sarawak's lucrative logging industry has given rise to dynasties of enormous wealth and political power, writes Chris Lang, as revealed in this courageous investigation by Lukas Straumann. And the kingpin is multi-billionaire Abdul Taib Mahmud, Chief Minister of Sarawak for 33 years, whose whose property empire spans the globe.
… Report notes that Mishcon de Raya has "landed their client in it" by pointing out …
The TPP - Trans-Pacific Partnership - is far more than just a trade agreement. It is a global-scale corporate power grab - anti-people, anti-environment and anti-democratic. And it must be stopped, writes Chris Lang.
… Chile, Singapore, Peru, Vietnam, New Zealand and Brunei Darussalam. The TPP agreement … Professor Jane Kelsey of the University of Aukland notes : "The core chapters of these … who has access to genetic resources on their lands and forests, it hands over that right to …