Sentences with phrase «global land grabbing»

He is the editor of the forthcoming anthology Grabbing Back: Essays Against the Global Land Grab (AK Press 2014).

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At least two - thirds of this is rain falling onto the grabbed land, but the rest is extracted from rivers or aquifers for irrigation — around 5 per cent of total global extractions for irrigation.

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Land Grab is a series of interventions that examine battles over territory and influence at the local and global level.

Rather than bring the global economy in for a soft landing after the collapse of industrial capitalism by using the rising information sector to spread wealth, the ruling classes chose to do what they always do: they exploited the situation for short - term gain, grabbing whatever they could for themselves.

The 2008 Land Grab for Food and Financial Security (Barcelona: October 2008); Joachim von Braun and Ruth Meinzen - Dick, «Land Grabbing» by Foreign Investors in Developing Countries, Policy Brief No. 13 (Washington, DC: IFPRI, April 2009); Klaus Deininger and Derek Byerlee, Rising Global Interest in Farmland: Can It Yield Sustainable and Equitable Benefits?

With our support, farmers and indigenous people established the Coalition against Land Grabbing as a global platform to disseminate information and denounce crimes against the environment.

And it's no less troubling when human rights are violated in the name of conservation or renewable energy; the United States evicted indigenous populations from their land in order to establish the national parks, for example, or, more recently, the massive land grabs that have taken place in the global south, where land is cheap, for biofuel production, solar plants, and wind farms.

Patrick has worked on Global Witness's campaigns on conflict resources, notably former Liberian President Charles Taylor's «arms for timber» trade, the minerals trade in Eastern DRC and more recently the Central African Republic, as well as providing strategic direction for Global Witness's work on forest issues, especially challenging industrial scale logging and land grabbing in the tropics.

Citing concerns about rising global grain prices, as well as potential land - grabs by large energy firms, a groups of Indian ministers has quietly shelved the National Mission on Biodiesel, The Economic Times reports.

They argued in meetings and on Web sites that local planners are unwitting agents of Agenda 21, a United Nations environmental action plan adopted in 1992 that the activists see as a shadowy global conspiracy to grab land and redistribute wealth in the United States.