Via CNN, a report on the land grab in Africa: It is being dubbed by some as the “Second Scramble for Africa” – millions of acres of land being snapped up by companies from Asia and the Middle East. The land rush was in part spurred by the food and financial crisis of 2008, when […]
Read more »Via China Dialogue, a look at Cambodia as a microcosm of a violent struggle playing out across the globe for control of a shrinking – and therefore increasingly valuable – pool of natural resources: On 26 April, Cambodian military police shot the environmental campaigner Chut Wutty as he sat at the wheel of his blood-red […]
Read more »Via China Dialogue, an article on green grabbing — the process through which organizations, by putting a value on nature, have fostered a wave of land grabbing: Transnational Institute (TNI): What is green grabbing? Melissa Leach (ML): I think The Guardian journalist John Vidal might have first coined the word, but it encompasses all the […]
Read more »Via IPP Media, an article on the politics of investment in large scale agricultural ventures: Tanzania has always been a country on the spotlight over cases of land grabbing for various uses. Over the recent past there has been a lot of information in both print and electronic media of land being taken for various […]
Read more »Via The Africa Report, an article on how – with minimal consultation – governments and local authorities are signing away huge tracts of land for lease on the cheap. As the report notes: The Nguruman Escarpment is one of global tourism’s secrets. Rising from the arid and salty wastes of Lake Magadi as the Rift […]
Read more »Via The Times of India, a report detailing India’s hunger for arable land overseas. As the article notes: India is among the top 10 nations to acquire land in both domestic and transnational deals, according to a report released this month by the Washington-based World Watch Institute (WWI). It lists India as a big investor […]
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