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Tag: Land grabs
Land Grabbing: “Big, big problem”
“It’s very attractive. The earnings are very high and we’ve got hybrid material now. You harvest in the 24th month, and the repayment period is about seven years at the most… For the next 20 years it’ll be laughing yourself all the way to the bank.”
How Maasai women are fighting against a United Arab Emirates corporate landgrab in Tanzania
In 1992, Ali Hassan Mwinyi, then Tanzania’s president, agreed a deal with Brigadier Mohamed Abdul Rahim Al Ali, deputy minister of defence of the United Arab Emirates. But this wasn’t only a military deal.
Open letter from Amnesty International to Brazil’s President about violations of the rights of the Guarani-Kaiowá Indigenous People
At the end of September 2015, Brazil submitted its Intended Nationally Determined Contribution to the UNFCCC. The introduction to the INDC states that Brazil is committed respecting human rights, including those of indigenous populations.
Company tactics: How corporations take community lands
This new video from LifeMosaic describes the tactics that companies use to convince communities to accept and support their projects. It’s the third in LifeMosaic’s series “Territories of Life”.