Sentences with phrase «land grab by»

Many Elders believe there is a tumultuous political climate and that they are seeing an inevitable fast - tracked land grab by this Government and by coteries of already wealthy predatory carpetbaggers.

Environmental and social advocacy organization Navdanya has stated concerns that expanding Jatropha cultivation on wastelands will simply be a land grab by corporations, and that so - called wastelands actually provide valuable ecosystem services, and I tend to take such concerns seriously.

A group of Cary residents, incensed by what they call a land grab by neighboring Lake in the Hills, say they will ask the Cary Park District to condemn property for a park to prevent the land from becoming a gravel pit.

I — is the favourite that will represent a massive land grab by Gazidis.

Without a body to call its «government» — the Lebanon war reduced the Palestine Liberation Organization from a leadership entity to a merely symbolic force — the Palestinians are deprived of any real hope that the land grab by Israel will be halted.

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

The publication gives a multitude of examples of the severe violations of the right to food and nutrition that the current food system is provoking: from forced evictions and land grabbing by companies or corrupted members of governments, as illustrated by the articles on Mexico and on the Arab Spring, to inappropriate food supply programs or speculative investments in agrofuels, described in the articles on Bangladesh, Paraguay and the Philippines.

Finally, for the sake of peace and future development cooperation, the nations of the Nile River Basin should come together to ban land grabs by foreign governments and agribusiness firms.

The proposal is just one of many blockchain land grabs by legacy actors trying to stay relevant in a world of Bitcoin governance.

Not exact matches

«The measure will accelerate the arrival of infrastructure and people for mining activities in areas of native forest, reproducing in the region the same lack of governance that permits the advance of deforestation and land grabs (elsewhere) in the Amazon,» Greenpeace said in a report by Reuters.

Wars are and were, caused by religions and «land grabs» since the evolution of the human race.

It's a narrative rejected by the 2.5 million Palestinians who live in the West Bank and who say that the scores of settlements like Shilo deny the viability of a future Palestinian state and constitute an Israeli land grab.

A Brazilian businessman involved in the acquisition of farmland by US, Canadian, German and Swedish pension funds could face criminal charges for land grabbing.

After grabbing everyone's attention by knocking off Kansas in Lawrence and edging West Virginia when the Mountaineers were ranked No. 2, the Red Raiders came back to Earth down the stretch with a four - game losing streak to land a No. 3 seed and a date with 2016 tournament darlings Stephen F. Austin.

Labour has hit back at the Conservative land - grab on its political territory on Monday by presenting its own ideas on cooperative structures.

Attention peasants displaced by government land grabs!

The former PM always tried to push his opponents into an unacceptable political position by land - grabbing their territory.

It was unclear Thursday evening whether a last - minute proposal by Cuomo to give the state power to grab land around Penn Station for development would be in the final budget.

Some speakers characterized the DEP deal as «another city land grab,» while others wondered why the county executive, who once described the agency as «an invading army,» wasn't paying more attention to flooding and debris issues in the Esopus Creek caused in part by his new DEP ally.

Where is Senator Peralta whose district encompasses the community most negatively affected by this land grab?

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.

I have flown over hundreds of kilometres of tribal lands in northern Paraguay acquired by Brazilian ranchers but absent from land - grabbing databases.

The first attempt to turn this land data into estimates of water grabs was made in January by Maria Cristina Rulli of the Polytechnic University of Milan in Italy and colleagues (PNAS, vol 110, p 892).

Rather than using the Land Matrix data, the researchers used miscellaneous grabs listed by GRAIN and other sources.

By their count, at that moment, the number of people killed because of their stance against mining, agribusiness and other forms of land grabbing, had reached 150.

Here we have a tough - but - tender cowgirl working her dead father's ranch with only a lovable grizzled old coot for a ranchhand; a somber villain moving through his dark house like Dracula in his castle, hatching designs on the heroine's land as well as her body; a land - grabbing industrialist conspiring with the local banker to turn rangeland into oil wells; a tall, quiet wrangler winning the girl's heart and saving her land to boot; singing cowboys, fireside heart - to - hearts, a crisis with hero and heroine trapped by villain in a burning building, a climactic shootout, and boy - gets - girl.

La La Land extends a hand to anyone scarred by a barrage of two - steps, jazz hands, and glitter costumes — and bets are, you'll grab hold.

The landscape may be different but it is every bit a frontier in its own right: a haunting opening tableau sees a forest go up in flames, as the land is torched by those determined to grab it.

Some 770,000 people have been affected by land grabs in Cambodia since 2000

Just this week, a brief was filed at the International Criminal Court noting that over the past 14 years some 770,000 people have been adversely affected by land grabs in the country and nearly 150,000 forcibly transferred from the capital.

Human rights abuses against ethnic civilians, such as forced labour, rape, pillage, land grabbing, and exploitation were first reported in ethnic areas the 1970s and 1980s, after which more than 150,000 people8 had fled to Thailand to seek refuge in camps by 20109.

And while the Model S is, in fact, a P100D known to successfully grab some big - name muscle cars by the collar and show them who's who, it faces stiff competition from Germany, the land of the Autobahn and its speed limit - free sections.

Her campaign against land grabbing (illegal appropriation of public lands by developers) and the rapacious re-allocation of forest land received much attention in Kenya and the region.

The farm was split among four brothers, eventually, who then sold off half each so that by the time Berndt Vogel escaped the latest war of Europe, during which he'd been chopped mightily but inconclusively in six places by a lieutenant's saber and then kicked by a horse so ever after his jaw didn't shut right, there was just one beautiful and peaceful swatch of land about to go for grabs.

Friends and family in New Orleans have long expressed the view that the drug problem in town was exacerbated by the wealthy as a way to do a land grab.

There's also a land - grab element to all this — people wring the hands over declining costs - per - click, but that's only natural (& obviously more than offset by clicks paid growth)-- increasing the digital advertising pie & grabbing as large a slice of the pie as possible is what matters now.

Sometimes dogs grab the food viciously with half of your hand while taught dogs open their mouths for the food to land in or take the piece by its very edge as if trying not to hurt you.

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.

We imagined that we had landed on a private island guarded by ferocious dogs, I grabbed a stick to fend off our possible aggressor.

As you travel you can claim more lands or try to grab the land owned by someone else.

Our first review is of a pretty interesting and fun game called The Great Land Grab or TGLG for short developed by TGLG Corp..

Land Grab can only be initiated by anyone with the Undead Nightmare pack, but anyone on the Free Roam server is free to join in the gunfight for territory.

Before I know it, they're tearing down the roof hoping to get in to grab the chest they can hear the dulcet tones of and I'm running back down the stairs to try and avoid being immediately taken out by a squad that have landed together above me.

So the player quickly falls into a rhythm: Find the most interesting bit of any planet, usually spottable by doing a quick flyover of the planet; land; grab the loot; and take off for the next world.

If you need a snack to keep you going before dinner, grab a handful of hazelnuts grown by farmers in Bhutan as a way of reforesting eroded land and bringing employment to poor communities.

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?

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

We also call for an end to land grabbing, by ensuring communities land rights are upheld and financial speculation of food commodities is reined in.

«The land might be owned by the state or government and used by the communities and has been like that for centuries,» said Paolo D'Odorico, a professor of environmental sciences at the University of Virginia who studies land and water grabbing.