Sentences with phrase «scale land acquisitions»

We show that over the last decade, the trade of forest - risk commodities was large and accelerating in the Mekong region, concurrent with the rapid expansion of large - scale land acquisitions (LSLAs), constituting important, inter-related causal pathways for the displacement of deforestation and forest degradation.

Other new questions about environmental issues include large - scale land acquisitions in the supply chains of food companies and related human rights problems.

In part as a result of climate change mitigation policies to promote biofuels and growing concern about food insecurity in middle and high income countries, large - scale land acquisition in Africa, Southeast Asia, and Latin America has displaced small landholders and contributed to food price increases.

Looking forward, things to watch include: the impact of economic recovery on commodity prices and agricultural expansion for food and biofuels production; large - scale land acquisition by foreign nations and corporations in tropical countries; climate negotiations and the REDD mechanism, including controversies over land rights, «offsetting», forest definitions, and sustainable forest management; the emergence of payments for ecosystem services beyond REDD; the cap - and - trade versus carbon tax schemes; efforts to address the demand side of deforestation — notably consumption; emerging certification systems for agricultural and forestry products (i.e. RSPO, Aliança da Terra, FSC, etc); and Brazil's progress in meeting its deforestation reduction targets.

Not exact matches

Three ordinances supporting the Department of Planning and Development's acquisition of land for the parks were introduced in City Council late last month and will likely be approved by fall, according to Pete Scales, spokesman for the Planning Department.

Once the Planning Department's acquisition is finalized, it will convey the land for the two residential community parks to the Chicago Park District, Scales said.

The Governor recalled that in the last one year, the State Government joined the Oodua Investment Group in addition to the acquisition of land in Ogun and Oyo States for agricultural purposes, saying that government would scale up the economic integration of the South West States as well as the cultural heritage of the region.

(Washington, DC: World Bank, January 2011); George C. Schoneveld, The Anatomy of Large - scale Farmland Acquisitions in Sub-Saharan Africa, Working Paper 85 (Bogor, Indonesia: Center for International Forestry Research, 2011); Fred Pearce, The Land Grabbers: The New Fight over Who Owns the Earth (Boston: Beacon Press, 2012); U.N. World Food Programme, «Countries,» at www.wfp.org/countries, viewed 17 June 2012.

But the good news for tropical forests was tempered by developments including Indonesia announcing its intentions to open up more than 2 million hectares of carbon - dense peatlands to old palm development; the collapse in law enforcement in Madagascar, contributing to an explosion of commercial timber (and lemur) harvesting in that country's spectacular rainforest parks; a breakdown at the RSPO meeting over efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from palm oil production; violent conflict in Peru between government security forces and indigenous groups over land rights and resource extraction; massive foreign land acquisitions in the Congo Basin; dodgy REDD dealings in Indonesia and Papua New Guinea; and large - scale expansion of oil palm agriculture in the Amazon.

Brannavan has been involved in large - scale property acquisitions and the negotiation of easements, licences, leases, sale and purchase agreements, and alienations of Māori land.

His extensive experience includes the acquisition, development, entitlement, financing, leasing, exchange, and sale of large - scale retail, office, multi-family residential, resort, and energy projects, including all land use and water rights aspects of such transactions.