Sentences with phrase «conflicts over land»

It also fuels conflicts over land use.

However, numerous studies show that failure to address the true drivers of deforestation — high demand for wood products, expansion of industrial agriculture, illegal and unplanned forest conversion, conflicts over land and resources, and extractive activities — will generally undermine any effort to «protect» forests through «payment for ecosystem services» schemes such as REDD.

Companies operating in Africa would do well to avoid conflicts over land with local populations, according to new research by the Rights and Resources Initiative (RRI), a Washington, D.C. - based NGO...

Floods and droughts become more frequent and severe, which is likely to seriously affect farm productivity and the livelihoods of rural communities, and increase the risk of conflicts over land and water.

We are well aware that the combination of powerful economic interests and weak government presence in Amazonian frontier regions results in conflicts over land and natural resources, and all too often in the assassinations of outspoken local leaders.

Haroon Gunn - Salie's Turn the Other Way, originally installed in a demolished house in District Six, asks viewers to consider their own role in the devastation of the neighborhood that began in the 1960s, and the ongoing conflicts over the land on which it once stood.

Meanwhile, researchers and community advocates in other parts of Brazil began to realize that conflicts over land and conservation impacted a variety of other local people who led simple lives but were not, strictly speaking, indigenous.

According to Yehezkel Landau, a religious peace activist, the conflict over the land of Israel - Palestine will be resolved only when each side recognizes the other «as a potential sibling and partner» in the struggle for liberation.

The Sovereign Forest is a poetic response to the conflict over land and the resistance of local communities in the Indian state of Odisha.

Not exact matches

Other than religion, the human race's major conflicts were over land and resources — mainly food.

Here's a quote from William Stringfellow's book, An Ethic for Christians and Other Aliens in a Strange Land: ``... the basic conflict among all principalities remains, though it be subdued or concealed for awhile, because the only morality governing each principality is its own survival as over against very other principality, as well as over against human beings and, indeed, the rest of Creation.

Across the «middle belt» that separates Nigeria's north from its south, nomadic ethnic Fulani herdsmen, mostly Muslim, have clashed with indigenous, mostly Christian farmers over grazing land for generations, and the conflicts have intensified since 2011, according to the report.

BBC Nigeria correspondent Mayeni Jones says an increasingly sectarian conflict is affecting central Nigeria, where nomadic Fulani herdsmen and local farmers have been clashing over grazing land.

The deal provides a path to ending their conflicts of nearly four years over Kiryas Joel's two land annexation attempts and supports Kiryas Joel's initiative to politically separate from the Town -LSB-...]

The deal provides a path to ending their conflicts of nearly four years over Kiryas Joel's two land annexation attempts and supports Kiryas Joel's initiative to politically separate from the Town of Monroe by forming a new town.

The Brong Ahafo Regional Minister, Kwaku Asomah - Cheremeh, has expressed worry over the increasing rate of chieftaincy, land and communal conflicts in the region, which he said impede the steady development of the region.

Governments should stop imposing conservation rules on communities and instead involve them in discussions, giving them power over how wildlife protection is carried out on their lands, says Francine Madden of the conservation group Human - Wildlife Conflict Collaboration.

Reports blamed the conflict for changes in land use and cover — and for activities like increased military traffic over unpaved surfaces and farmers reducing irrigation or abandoning agricultural land — that created extreme amounts of dust to fuel the storm.

All too often, she argues, the Australian states are in conflict with Aborigines over land rights and mining rights.

In an attempt to settle the potential conflict over valuable land before the bird was put on the endangered list, the various groups of conservationists and developers tried to hammer out an agreement in which enough of the bird's habitat would be set aside to protect the gnatcatcher, while the rest of the land would be given over to development.

Most of the indigenous lands now awaiting ratification, he adds, «are concentrated in the center - south and northeast regions of Brazil,» where there is still major social conflict over the demarcation of indigenous lands.

The research could help South Carolina continue its explosive growth in generating solar energy while minimizing conflicts that could arise over land use.

At barely over an hour, the film is brief and filled with gorgeous nature shots, but surprisingly little conflict or information, even when one of the farmers is arrested for having a gun to protect his land from poachers.

Children fighting on the playground, teachers struggling to control a difficult class, parents arguing about the time their teenager should be home, neighbour disputes over land boundaries or anti social behaviours, protests against tyrannical leaders — conflict happens.

The novel follows a young man born in London as he is deported to Australia and faces conflict with the Aboriginal family who live on the land he wishes to take over.

While the action moves from imperialist adventures in far flung lands to domestic conflicts over race and class, there is a constant sense of history being written, drawn, and filmed as it unfolds.

Without a solution to this growing problem, Alistel and Granorg have been forced into bitter conflict over what green land is left, as the future of the world grows dimmer and dimmer.

Gaining friendships, such as his sworn brother, Nishiki, Kiryu must ust the help of all his allies to survive the streets in Kamurocho while an internal conflict brews over a piece of land — the empty lot.

Developed jointly in an innovative partnership between the Terra Foundation for American Art, the Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo and the AGO, this evocative exhibition brings together over 100 works of art from 10 lending countries and goes behind the canvas to reveal the histories, conflicts and scientific explorations that shaped how we see the land we inhabit.

The bearded male «Herma» busts pay homage to ancient Greek land - markers of the same name, and also invoke current political and social conflicts over power and ownership.

The political overtones are immediately recognizable in such a work, mimicking the conflict between two nations over the same piece of land.

Many of the killings stem from conflicts over the ownership and use of land, particularly in the face of expanded mining and logging activities.

But there will be crop lands and survivors, although again a lot of conflict over remaining resources might be a huge issue.

The government program includes a moratorium on expansion of cultivation, control and prevention of forest fires, assessment of degradation impacts to determine future sustainable land use, implementation of sustainable land use, conservation of peatlands, a focus on resolving conflicts over resource issues, and enhancement of good governance.

Food and water shortages and conflict over productive land will arise, while progress in global health could be rolled back by communicable diseases such as malaria reaching places they never existed before.

Conflicts over access to water and fertile land will increase with increasing populations.

«While we understand and appreciate the attractiveness for building dams for electricity as green energy, we need to recognize the impact of these «green developments» on local communities; from increasing poverty because of loss of lands, to increased conflicts over less grazing and water,» said Angelei who continues to advocate for dam - affected peoples.

But the good news for tropical forests was tempered by developments including Indonesia announcing its intentions to open up more than 2 million hectares of carbon - dense peatlands to old palm development; the collapse in law enforcement in Madagascar, contributing to an explosion of commercial timber (and lemur) harvesting in that country's spectacular rainforest parks; a breakdown at the RSPO meeting over efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from palm oil production; violent conflict in Peru between government security forces and indigenous groups over land rights and resource extraction; massive foreign land acquisitions in the Congo Basin; dodgy REDD dealings in Indonesia and Papua New Guinea; and large - scale expansion of oil palm agriculture in the Amazon.

There are multiple, conflicting lines of evidence in climate sensitivity, and nothing has really ruled out the possibility of a tail that extends over 4C for a doubling, and that's without even allowing for some kind of carbon cycle feedback that causes land to turn from a sink to a source of CO2.

More than 1,150 activists have been killed in conflicts related to land use and logging over the past two decades.

The conflict in Congo is complex and is underpinned by a web of long - standing political tensions, ethnic grievances and disputes over land.

2007/04/17: ENN: Melting Himalayan Glaciers Pose Security Risk, UNEP Says Global warming will cause the Himalayan glaciers to melt, leading to mass migration and possibly conflicts over valuable resources such as agricultural land and fresh water, the U.N. Environment Programme chief said.

Edward's recent experience includes dealing with property other than land in England, including disputes concerning a luxury yacht, and also with foreign real property and conflicts of laws issues, including a claim in connection with a purported sale of a group of Balinese islands, and a case concerning the declaration of trusts pursuant to English law over French land.

He has mediated, facilitated, and arbitrated over 175 cases and has designed and taught more than 500 hours of conflict resolution, arbitration, negotiation, commercial real estate, land use and environmental law courses.

Does this rejection offer new solutions to the fundamental conflict between Indigenous and non-Indigenous people stated above as the assertion of exclusive jurisdiction by non-Indigenous people over traditional lands that have never been surrendered?

The fundamental conflict about the assertion of exclusive jurisdiction by non-Indigenous people over traditional Aboriginal lands is not solved by the recognition of native title.

The Right People for Country Project seeks to address uncertainty and conflict that can be produced by the intersection of native title and cultural heritage legislation by creating an agreement - making structure to deal with disputes between Aboriginal peoples over land ownership and cultural heritage.