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7/4/2013
REDD intiatives have been decried as a form of neo-colonialism.
African participants at the World Social Forum in Tunisia have taken a historic decision to launch a No REDD in
Africa Network and join the global movement against ...
22/3/2013
Liberia's largest palm oil company, Golden Veroleum, needs to review its social and environmental policies after its workers damaged graves, cleared existing crops and polluted creeks, according to an independent study it ...
7/3/2013
Tropical lakes in East
Africa don’t
grab headlines the way polar bears do, but climate change is having an effect on them, too. Although the changes are not as visible as melting polar ice caps, they are no less real.
As in many lakes ...
18/12/2012
This piece is part of Water
Grabbers: A Global Rush on Freshwater, a special National Geographic Freshwater News series on how
grabbing
land-and water-from poor people, desperate governments, and future generations threatens global
food security, ...
13/10/2012
World grain reserves are so dangerously low that severe weather in the United States or other
food-exporting countries could trigger a major hunger crisis next year, the United Nations has warned.
Failing harvests in the US, Ukraine and ...
31/7/2012
Inside every wind turbine, inside computers, phones and other high-tech equipment from medical scanners to electric cars, are materials known as "rare earths". This small group of 17 elements are in extraordinary demand – but their supply is ...
31/7/2012
NASA satellites recently between April 1 and June 30 have picked up extensive signals confirming what surfaced since quite a long time ago. The signals specify potential deforestation across large parts of the tropics-encompassing Columbia, ...
12/6/2012
A scramble for cheap
African farmland by foreign investors threatens to leave millions of people without water and could ultimately drain the continent's rivers, a report warns.
"If these
land grabs are allowed to continue,
Africa is ...
7/5/2012
The World Bank has come under attack after a new report has exposed how commercial projects funded by the Bank are causing poverty, human rights violations in Uganda sparking a barrage of criticisms.Ironically, the report entitled “Land, ...
9/3/2012
The upcoming Rio+20 conference has to be the moment in human history when the nations of the world come together to find ways to ensure the very survival of humanity, many science and environmental experts believe.
Except that ...
13/1/2012
Echoes from armed raids still seem to resound in this valley, eight hours north of the capital city. In early 2011 military and paramilitary forces forcibly evicted 13 communities of indigenous Mayan peasants—some 300 families were dispossessed ...
15/12/2011
Biofuels not
food is biggest driver of 'land
grabbing' deals, says report - The Ecologist
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More the 50 per cent of
land-grabbing deals are for growing biofuels, according to new ...
6/12/2011
Indigenous Peoples participating in the UNFCCC negotiations have called for a moratorium on REDD+ today. In a statement released to the press, the Global Alliance of Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities against REDD and for Life declares: ...
2/12/2011
Civil society has warned of the danger of turning
Africa's
food-producing
lands into "carbon farms" so that rich countries can avoid making cuts in their carbon emissions.
On Friday, they called on host country South
Africa to refrain ...
5/9/2011
It can't happen here, can it?The United States, the breadbasket and supplier of last resort for a hungry world, has been such an amazing
food producer in the last half-century that most Americans take for granted annual bounteous harvests ...
24/8/2011
Indian agribusiness companies are ready to spend $2.5bn buying, or renting for decades, several million hectares of cheap
land in Ethiopia, Tanzania and Uganda in what could be some of the largest farming deals struck in
Africa in the last 50 ...
16/6/2011
Food ArkA crisis is looming: To feed our growing population, we’ll need to double
food production. Yet crop yields aren’t increasing fast enough, and climate change and new diseases threaten the limited varieties we’ve come to depend on for ...
1/6/2011
Africa's famine is the result of a 'perfect storm' triggered by drought, crop failure, war and the effects of climate change hitting all at once.
Oxfam called on Tuesday for an urgent overhaul of the world's
food system, warning that in ...
31/5/2011
Oxfam called on Tuesday for an overhaul of the world's
food system, warning that in a couple of decades, millions more people would be gripped by hunger due to population growth and climate-hit harvests.
A "broken
food system" means that ...
31/5/2011
Oxfam called on Tuesday for an overhaul of the world's
food system, warning that in a couple of decades, millions more people would be gripped by hunger due to population growth and climate-hit harvests.
A "broken
food system" means that ...
19/5/2011
Water stress is at its most extreme in the Middle East and north
Africa, according to Maplecroft's water stress index. Photograph: maplecroft.com
Water, it's the very stuff of life, and a high-resolution analysis of the most ...
15/4/2011
Research from countries such as Cambodia show that the social and environmental costs of ‘land
grab’ deals are rarely taken into account. Photograph: Robyn Mcdowell/AP
New research on the global rush for agricultural
land shows ...
24/3/2011
Palm oil giants target
Africa in 'land
grab' following Indonesia deforestation ban Palm oil giant Sime Darby is considering setting up 300,000 hectares of plantation in Cameroon
France pushes its faith in nuclear around the world ...
25/2/2011
Rising commodity prices are driving palm oil producers to find more
land to boost output, but doing so in Indonesia may be too difficult, some producers claim.
Sime Darby, the world’s largest listed palm oil producer, wants to acquire ...
9/2/2011
Progress over the past 25 years in recognizing indigenous peoples' rights to
land and resources has been interrupted by a worldwide commodity boom, argues a new report published by the Rights and Resources Initiative (RRI).
The report, ...