Sentences with phrase «driving land grabs»

(08/30/2010) The European Union's renewable fuels target is driving land grabs in Africa that threaten the environment and local communities, claims a new report from Friends of the Earth (FOE).

Agrofuels are worsening climate change, threatening people's food security, driving land grabs, and destroying forests and other crucial ecosystems.

Companies with activities resulting in dire social impacts on farmers and communities, such as those driving land grabbing or promoting GM seeds, already claim that they are «climate - smart.»

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Cattle baron Clay Matthews is covertly masterminding stampedes of herds, hiring gunslingers for attacks on ranchers, cutting fences, grabbing lands - all part of a plan to establish a National Cattle Trail capable of handling a million - cattle drive from Texas to Canada.

All you do is fly to Paris Orly, grab a rental car, and drive a couple of hours southwest on the toll expressways A10 and A11; add another 30 - 45 minutes if you land at Charles de Gaulle.

Driven by both cashed up foreigners and Indonesian investors, land prices and land grabs alike have soared but precious little of the cash sloshing around is trickling down to address such pesky issues as road repairs and other infrastructure work.

Land grabs are also driven by the extractive and tourism industries.

A land grab strategy makes complete sense because the more Amazon can drive Alexa usage, the more data it will generate and the better it can become.