Sentences with phrase «defines land grabs»
The International Land Coalition, a group that includes Oxfam International and the United Nations Environment Program, defines land grabs as acquisitions completed «without prior consent of the preexisting land users, and with no consideration of the social and environmental impacts.»
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Such land deals are often derisively dubbed «land grabbing,» which D'Odorico defines as a deal for about 500 acres or more that converts an environmentally important area currently used by local people to commercial production.
The provision calls for an immediate full - scale disposal of «certain» public lands, without defining which lands it would apply to, leaving national parks, wilderness areas, wildlife refuges, and national forests apparently up for grabs and vulnerable to development, privatization, or transfer to state ownership.