The state of the global farmland grab, according to the Land Matrix
网页2021年10月27日 · The Land Matrix Initiative, a collaboration between academic research institutes and the International Land Coalition, has just released a new report on large scale land acquisitions – as they call them – in the agricultural sector worldwide. The report accounts for 33 million hectares which international investors have acquired for agricultural production since 2000.
Carbon credit land grab dispossesses Global South communities: …
网页3 天之前 · Communal lands the combined size of Portugal have been taken over by corporate interests for carbon offsetting schemes across the Global South, according to a new report that warns of a “new form of land grabbing.”. The report by GRAIN, a nonprofit supporting small farmers, identified 9.1 million hectares (22.5 million acres) of land, more than half of it in Africa, that had undergone such ...
Land grab? The race for the world's farmland - farmlandgrab.org
网页The race for the world's farmland. The world is experiencing a grain rush. With increasing frequency, food-importing countries and private investors are acquiring farmland across the developing world. This new publication marks one of the first efforts in the United States to bring together perspectives from international organizations, farmers ...
How to resist the expanding global land grab - farmlandgrab.org
网页2024年3月19日 · Mali made headlines as a hotbed of the global land grab in the wake of the 2008 food price crisis when massive tracts of its arable red earth were swept up by foreign investors. The ensuing rural devastation and displacement reflected a bleak new reality for peasant communities throughout the Global South. At the time, Mali had not passed a ...
Land squeeze: Soaring land prices, grabs and carbon schemes …
网页2024年5月14日 · Soaring land prices, land grabs, and carbon schemes are creating an unprecedented ‘land squeeze’, threatening farmers and food production, reveals a comprehensive new report today by IPES-Food. The report comes as land issues rise up the global agenda – with the World Bank holding a conference on ‘Securing Land Tenure and Access for Climate Action’ in Washington DC this week, a ...
farmlandgrab.org | Charts: The top 5 land-grabbing countries
网页And as Mother Jones blogger Tom Philpott has noted, the grabbers have an average per capita GDP about five times the size of the grabbed. Take a look at the top five land-grabbing countries below and their respective claims: Top Global Land Poachers by Area Grabbed, 2002 to 2012 Israel United Arab Emirates …
farmlandgrab.org | Industrial plantations: stop endangering local ...
网页5 天之前 · The day, celebrated in Uganda for the first time, began with a live radio talk show on Witness Radio, broadcast in the local dialect. Leaders of communities affected by industrial plantations in Uganda, under their umbrella organization—the Informal Alliance for Communities Affected by Irresponsible Land-Based Investments—shared harrowing accounts of forced evictions, lack of compensation ...
Land grabbing is rolling along as we speak and in fact intensifying
网页Members of the Landless Workers' Movement of Brazil (MST) march for agrarian reform. Credit: MST BA The International Panel of Experts on Sustainable Food Systems recently released a report highlighting escalating pressures on farmland. It identified four primary drivers: deregulation and financialisation, which treat land as a speculative asset; expanding conservation and carbon offset ...
About farmlandgrab.org
网页About farmlandgrab.org. This website contains news about the global rush to buy or lease farmlands by agribusiness, governments and financial investors -- and people’s resistance against it. Its purpose is to serve as a resource for those monitoring, researching or organising around the issue, particularly activists, non-government ...
farmlandgrab.org | Land grabbing: exploring challenges and …
网页References. The Land Matrix database; The research project “The role of Europe in land deals: understanding the food-energy-water security nexus” jointly developed by Enel Foundation, Fondazione Politecnico di Milano, the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Politecnico di Milano, the Department of Design and Planning in Complex Environment, University IUAV of Venice and ...