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• land grabs in ethiopia

  
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  from the Oakland Institute .  Ethiopia has been the focus of aggressive foreign agricultural investment, leasing out nearly 3.6 million hectares of land for commercial farm ventures from 2008-2010. This investment has corresponded with widespread human rights violations. Most egregiously, the Ethiopian ...
  3 days ago

• Voters Boot Entire Hackensack City Council Over Attempted Eminent Domain Land Grab

  
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  Attempted Land Grab Ends With Voters Booting Entire City Council – Reason Government officials like to use eminent domain for the convenience of their preferred policies and/or the enrichment of themselves and their buddies. Usually, they get away with it, because the folks on the receiving end are too few and ...
  5 days ago

• All In All, It Looks Like The Day Is Going To Be Super, Man

  
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  Yeah, that’s right, dudes. You read the title correctly. I made a punne, or play on words there. Because I’m so ready to see the Superman movie, Man of Steel . Seriously, I just can’t wait. I know there’s going to be stuff in the movie that makes me want to tear out the few remaining hairs on my head, I ...
  5 days ago

• Rights group says Cambodian land program flawed

  
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  An international human rights group charged Thursday that a massive land redistribution program spearheaded by Cambodias strongman prime minister is unfair, open to corruption and politically motivated. New York-based Human Rights Watch said in a report that the program, which began a year ago, was ...
  6 days ago

• Eight ways to solve world hunger

  
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  Millions of people are starving, despite the world producing more than enough to feed everyone. What can we do about it? . . . → Read More: Eight ways to solve world hunger
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• How indigenous people are turned off their lands

  
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  Hundreds of thousands in Cambodia, Vietnam and Thailand are said to have been displaced . . . → Read More: How indigenous people are turned off their lands Related Posts: Deutsche Bank and IFC accused of bankrolling Vietnam… UN urges Cambodia to hold companies to account over land… Cambodian ...
  2 weeks ago

• ‘The Sumatran rainforest will mostly disappear within 20 years’

  
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  In only a few years, logging and agribusiness have cut Indonesias vast rainforest by half. The government has renewed a moratorium on deforestation but it may already be too late for the endangered animals –and for the people whose lives lie in ruin . . . → Read More: ‘The Sumatran rainforest will mostly ...
  3 weeks ago

• ‘Indonesia is seeing a new corporate colonialism’

  
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  Multinational companies have been encouraged to seize and deforest land owned by indigenous people, say human rights groups . . . → Read More: ‘Indonesia is seeing a new corporate colonialism’ Related Posts: Indonesia’s tropical forests set to benefit from… Industry, fires and poachers shrink ...
  3 weeks ago

• When the Levee Breaks: A report from a very large farm

  
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  Earlier this month, I travelled to Gambella in South West Ethiopia to visit the 100,000 ha farm managed by Karuturi Global Ltd ; an Bangalore-based company that hopes to use its farm in Ethiopia to become one of the largest food producers in the world. Karuturi has become the most visible symbol of what activists ...
  4 weeks ago

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