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Sources Select ResourcesBanacol: A company implicated paramilitarism and land grabbing in Curvarado and JiguamiandoInterchurch Justice and Peace Commission Article 2012 Hands off the Land Alliance This study focuses on the International Banacol Marketing Corporation’s actions in the Afro-Colombian and Mestizo communities’ collective territories of Curvaradó and Jiguamiandó in the Lower Atrato r... Commercial Pressures on LandWebsite International Land Coalition A portal created by the International Land Coalition informing evidence based debate on large scale land-based investments and their alternatives. Half of U.S. Farmland Being Eyed by Private EquityBiron, Carey L. Article 2014 Inter Press Service An estimated 400 million acres of farmland in the United States will likely change hands over the coming two decades as older farmers retire, even as new evidence indicates this land is being strongly... How Human Rights Watch Covers for Companies in ColombiaDown Where the Death Squads Live Kovalik, Daniel Article 2013 CounterPunch Human Rights Watch fails to name the names in its recent report on Colombia entitled, “The Risk of Returning Home, Violence and Threats against Displaced People Reclaiming Land in Colombia.” And, this... How not to grow a new townRush, Elizabeth Article 2013 Le Monde diplomatique For years the governments of Peru, and the municipality of Lima, had a working deal with rural migrants who flocked to the city: we'll plan the place, you build it, amenities will arrive. Then came th... Indian agribusiness sets sights on land in east AfricaVidal, John Article 2011 The Guardian Indian investors plan to spend $2.5bn on acquiring vast tracts of cheap farming land in Ethiopia, Tanzania and Uganda. Land concentration, land grabbing and people's struggles in EuropeJoan Article 2015 Cooperativa Integral Catalana The hidden scandal of how a few big private business entities have gained control of ever-greater areas of European land. How these land elites have been actively supported by a huge injection of publ... Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - January 29, 2015Land seizures and land take-overs Diemer, Ulli (editor); Khan, Tahmid (production) Serial Publication (Periodical) 2015 Connexions This issue of Other Voices focuses on the issue of land seizures and land take-overs. Also included: Greece's solidarity movement, and the challenges and opportunities it faces after the election of a... Our Land, Our LivesTime Out On The Global Land Rush Geary, Kate Article 2012 Oxfam In the past decade an area of land eight times the size of the UK has been sold off globally as land sales rapidly accelerate. This land could feed a billion people equivalent to the number of people ... Twiga Farm: The story of a Kenyan land grabRinsum van, Leila Article 2014 Pambazuka News On Tuesday, September 23, 2014, the residents of Twiga Farm marched through the streets of Nairobi to hand in a petition to the National Assembly. Their demand was an investigation in the unlawful evi... Sources BookshelfThe Land GrabbersThe New Fight over Who Owns the Earth Pearce, Fred Book 2012 How Wall Street, Chinese billionaires, oil sheikhs, and agribusiness are buying up huge tracts of land in a hungry, crowded world.
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