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Dawn. 03 November 2024. A large contingent of policemen, including elite force personnel, were sent to subdue peasants protesting for two days against the government’s decision to reallocate 528 acres of their “ancestral land” — cultivated by them for nearly a …
Land squeeze: Soaring land prices, grabs and carbon schemes …
May 12, 2024 · Soaring land prices, land grabs, and carbon schemes are creating an unprecedented ‘land squeeze’, threatening farmers and food production, reveals a comprehensive new report today by IPES-Food. The report comes as land issues rise up the global agenda – with the World Bank holding a conference on ‘Securing Land Tenure and Access for Climate Action’ in Washington DC this week, a ...
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Nov 3, 2024 · Failure of a California almond grower shows the unsustainability of some sustainable agriculture investments. ImpactAlpha; 29 October 2024 There is an increasing demand for nature-based solutions and real assets are of …
The state of the global farmland grab, according to the Land Matrix
Oct 27, 2021 · The Land Matrix Initiative, a collaboration between academic research institutes and the International Land Coalition, has just released a new report on large scale land acquisitions – as they call them – in the agricultural sector worldwide. The report accounts for 33 million hectares which international investors have acquired for agricultural production since 2000.
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Mar 19, 2024 · Mali made headlines as a hotbed of the global land grab in the wake of the 2008 food price crisis when massive tracts of its arable red earth were swept up by foreign investors. The ensuing rural devastation and displacement reflected a bleak new reality for peasant communities throughout the Global South. At the time, Mali had not passed a ...
Land grab? The race for the world's farmland - farmlandgrab.org
Jan 8, 2010 · The race for the world's farmland. The world is experiencing a grain rush. With increasing frequency, food-importing countries and private investors are acquiring farmland across the developing world. This new publication marks one of the first efforts in the United States to bring together perspectives from international organizations, farmers ...
farmlandgrab.org | Land grabbing: exploring challenges and …
References. The Land Matrix database; The research project “The role of Europe in land deals: understanding the food-energy-water security nexus” jointly developed by Enel Foundation, Fondazione Politecnico di Milano, the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Politecnico di Milano, the Department of Design and Planning in Complex Environment, University IUAV of Venice and ...
What is land grabbing? A critical review of existing definitions
Jan 8, 2016 · A critical review of existing definitions. by Katelyn Baker-Smith and Szocs Boruss Miklos-Attila. Land grabbing is a serious issue that affects the environment, economy, social welfare and human rights. Despite the global reach of land grabbing, there is no definition that fully captures the issue. Here, Eco Ruralis presents not only its ...
‘Water grabs’ pose big threat to farmers amid water crises
Jun 21, 2023 · The trend, which researchers have coined “ water grabbing ” — a form of land grabbing except it refers specifically to the control of water — is a problem for peasant communities and smallholder farmers, who often rely on the same surface or groundwater resources, amid a global freshwater crisis. In countries like Chile, Mexico and Peru ...
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About farmlandgrab.org. This website contains news about the global rush to buy or lease farmlands by agribusiness, governments and financial investors -- and people’s resistance against it. Its purpose is to serve as a resource for those monitoring, researching or organising around the issue, particularly activists, non-government ...