Sentences with phrase «corporate land grabs»

2006 Goldman Prize winner from Liberia, Silas Siakor, together with his team at the Sustainable Development Institute (SDI), is currently leading a public awareness campaign about the impacts of palm oil development and the explosion of corporate land grabs taking place in Africa and across the world.

U.S. taxpayers and ratepayers need to awaken to the environmentally destructive wealth transfer and corporate land grab that is industrial wind energy, before more of our priceless American countrysides and wildlife are destroyed.

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And what if new forms of mass occupations develop — around corporate «land grabs» for example — where thousands of poor people stay in protracted protest and a political standoff without sufficient health care and food.

Land grabbing is a huge issue in Cambodia and the international delegation met a number of women and families whose homes were destroyed to make way for corporate developments.

They come to the USA to survive, often working in corporate agriculture while Smithfield & friends grabs their land.