Category Archives: Land Grabs
An Open Letter to President Obama on the Eve of Talks with Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi at Camp David
Large-Scale Land Investments are Violating Human Rights and Undermine Food Security in Ethiopia Cross-posted from Oakland Institute May 17, 2012, Oakland, CA: On the eve of upcoming meeting at Camp David on May 19, 2012, with four African leaders to discuss food … Continue reading
Filed under Bioenergy / Agrofuels, Land Grabs
Urgent Action Needed To Protect Ancient Marpole Village And Burial Site From Destruction
By Ahni May 12, 2012 Cross-Posted from Intercontinental Cry Photo from recent Musqueam Nation march and rally. Credit UBCIC Musqueam Nation is calling on the British Colombia Government to protect the burials of Musqueam ancestors at the once great Musqueam village known as … Continue reading
Filed under Actions, Indigenous Peoples, Climate Change, Land Grabs
Sign on: International Organizations Condemn IKEA’s Logging of Russia’s Old-growth Forests
May 16th, 2012 The Swedish-owned international furniture retailer, IKEA, is logging old-growth forests and other high conservation value forests in Russian Karelia[1] through its subsidiary Swedwood. A petition has been launched by Swedish NGO Protect the Forest to help change IKEA and … Continue reading
Filed under Actions, Biodiversity, Forests and Climate Change, Greenwashing, Land Grabs
Indonesia: Destroying Tripa peat swamp forest is “an act of criminal vandalism”
By Chris Lang, 15th May 2012 Cross-Posted from REDD-Monitor “Now is the time for action not words here in Tripa. To destroy one of the last great areas of peat swamp forest in Sumatra is an act of criminal vandalism.” … Continue reading
No more evictions! Indigenous Peoples in Guatemala in defense of nature, lands and territories.
Note: Evictions of community farmers from UC Berkeley land, peasants thrown off of their land all over the world for agrofuel feedstock production, deforestation, forest “protection,” large-scale hydroelectric projects, etc. It’s time for the end of neoliberalism, private property and … Continue reading
NEW REPORT REVEALS DRIVERS OF UK BIOMASS EXPANSION AS BRAZILIAN SUZANO PAPEL E CELULOSE GAIN APPROVAL FOR LARGEST GM TREE PLANTATION TRIAL
Cross-Posted from Carbon Trade Watch London/Barcelona 14 May 2012: Earlier this month Brazilian pulp and paper giant Suzano Papel e Celulose gained approval for the world’s most advanced trial of genetically modified (GM) trees to meet the global demands of … Continue reading
Campign for the Freedom of Political Prisoners in Chiapas, Mexico Presses On
by Jessica Davies, 11 May 2012 Cross-Posted from UpsideDownWorld May 15 to 22 marks “the Week of Global Struggle for the Liberation of Alberto Patishtán Gómez and Francisco Sántiz López: bringing down the prison walls”, which was called by the … Continue reading
Land Grabbing in Ethiopia: Violence Erupts in Gambella
Cross-Posted from Cultural Survival, May 10, 2012 . Ethiopian National Defense Force © Photo by the US Military . Attacks on the Saudi-owned rice plantation in southwestern Ethiopia left five people dead on April 28, 2012, including one Pakistani worker and … Continue reading
Filed under Actions, Indigenous Peoples, Climate Change, Land Grabs, Political Repression, Africa
Richard Sandor: Carbon trading, holy cows and sacred groves
By Chris Lang, 10th May 2012 Cross-Posted from REDD-Monitor Richard Sandor has a new book out. He’ll tell you that markets are thesolution before he hears the problem. Pollution? Climate change? Water shortages? Species extinction? Just create a new market and … Continue reading
Land grabbing: La Via Campesina urges States to act
Rome, May 10th, 2012–This week, the United Nations Committee on World Food Security is convening for a special session to formally adopt the recently concluded Guidelines on Responsible Governance of Land, Fisheries and Forests in the context of National Food … Continue reading
