Sentences with phrase «land grab»

The second, bigger, problem is their conversion of land grabs into water grabs.

Just looking at the numbers could be deceptive... Also, I do not see «a continued land grab for cheap property».

But if information on land grabs is poor, then that on water grabs is far worse.

Are they going to want to do business with you in the future when you try for massive land grabs?

Reports of displaced communities and illegal land grabs are not uncommon.

This hurts the most vulnerable through land grabbing, impacts on food production, biodiversity, and forces the future to be determined by unproven and risky technology.

It smells like land grabs and taxpayers being soaked.

Just how much land grabbing is occurring is a matter of debate.

So what we have now is a giant land grab for the billions at play.

It has managed to massively increase agricultural production, whilst avoiding mass land grabs - and so in fact has seen falling rates of deforestation.

Since all of these false solutions need land to be a reality, one of their side - effects is the act of land grabbing.

A change to environmental law is being viewed as a massive land grab that hurts many small companies.

A Federal High Court in Lagos on Friday ordered the prison remand of four men who were accused of engaging in land grabbing in the Ibeju Lekki area of Lagos.

Reports suggest Ethiopia, Ghana, Madagascar and other African countries are in the midst of a colonial - style land grab by foreign investors.

We highlighted the human rights impacts, as land grabs for bioenergy escalated in Africa and elsewhere.

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.

While pledging to continue to fine - tune the processes of land administration to meet changing times and yield positive dividends for the people, Governor Ambode vowed that his administration was determined to stamp out the issue of land grabbing from the State once and for all.

Farmers across Australia are mobilising and fighting back against what one has described as the biggest land grab in Australian history.

(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).

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.

Open murder of political dissidents and opposition both at home and abroad, ww2 style land grabs, purposely bombing syrian hospitals, censorship of the entire populace with intelligence services meting out punishments, having a sham of a judiciary and media while telling more lies than truth to its populace thereby eroding their confidence in any information to enlighten them (much like what the authoritarian right is trying to do here).

From utilitarian processes to the final appearance of designed objects ranging from jewelry to spare machine parts, get ready for a patent land grab of 3 - D intellectual property.

A «Lord of the Rings» reference in several crypto projects illustrates a coming land grab on the finite amount of «cool» names.

I kid, but Abraham Lincoln, one of the originators of Paul's party, became «Spotty Lincoln» due to his opposition to this American land grab of Mexico.

The second game mode is integrated right in Free Roam and is called Land Grab.

Slamming what he called «a massive federal land grab,» Trump signed an executive order directing his interior secretary to review the designation of dozens of national monuments on federal lands.

Remember when Uncle Ira tried to find out which developer was behind the eminent domain land grab of the farm?

Attention peasants displaced by government land grabs!

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The full impact of the global land grabbing is not clear because information on the deals and their water usage is sparse, D'Odorico said.

UNITED NATIONS — The biggest land grab since colonial times is accelerating as nations scramble to claim writ over hundreds of thousands of square miles of ocean floor, much of it believed to be rich in natural resources.

This IJNet blog on covering Massingir land grabs includes lessons in using new media techniques in remote areas.

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.»

It is an uncomfortable reality (for lawyers, that is) that the vast majority of today's legal landscape falls outside of the six reserved legal activities (protected under the Legal Services Act) as we head towards the post-LSA land grab.

It's not expected to be the overblown land grab of the early...

Rural China has been the engine of much development through industrialisation; through farming to provide food for China's cities; and through land grabs which open new areas for investment and government revenue.

The new draft proposals released yesterday at the Copenhagen Climate Conference will lead to large - scale destruction of ecosystems and unprecedented land grabs as spurious «offsets» will allow Northern countries to burn ever more fossil fuels say civil society groups who have been tracking negotiations.

Activists call these acquisitions land grabs that violate human rights.

Yes, see my comment above: «Meanwhile, German companies remain (understandably) focused on a continued land grab for cheap property...» German (residential) property companies are not a dividend story right now — but I believe their strategy of conserving cash to bulk up their portfolios is definitely the right strategy at this point.

If China is jamming US Navy aircraft flying in international airspace at sea, it serve as yet another sign that Beijing may disregard international law and norms to defend its South China Sea land grab.

Fears grew that the Kremlin might carry out more land grabs in pro-Russian eastern Ukraine, adding urgency to Western efforts to defuse the crisis.

In advertising, there's tone and feel, there's attention land grabs, and then there's a good old practical explanation, a demonstration of exactly what to do or how something works.

Apple's mobile land grab.

It too emerged as the victor of its respective land grab (social networks), yet it seems to be annoying and alienating users at every turn.

As with most things, there appears to be some business strategy behind Denmark's northern land grab.

«It's an all - out land grab and will continue to be in perpetuity,» acknowledges Bob Davis, a general partner at Highland Capital Partners.