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Sugar factory owners fuel land grabbing
2013-10-21 09:01:44| Sugar Industry News
A new report by Oxfam International has lifted the lid on how the ever spiralling demand for sugar and the overwhelming rush for land to grow it, is fuelling land grabbing. Oxfam\'s new report, Sugar Rush: Land rights and the supply chains of the biggest food and beverage companies, while based on findings in Brazil and Cambodia and Africa in general, echoes the outcries by Ugandan politicians and activists. - See more at: http://www.independent.co.ug/news/news-analysis/8343-sugar-factory-owners-fuel-land-grabbing#sthash.j52jHBoS.dpuf
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EU Under Fire for Policy Linked to Land Grabbing in Cambodia
2013-09-19 08:22:49| Sugar Industry News
KAMPONG SPEU PROVINCE Three years ago, Pao had a farm and a charcoal stove near a stream in a community called Omlaing in western Cambodia. The farm gave her rice, charcoal sales gave her extra income and the nearby forest provided edible and medicinal plants.
Annoyed theatergoer ejected after grabbing cell phone and tossing it
2013-05-16 18:36:22| CNET News.com
Kevin Williamson is so angry that a woman won't stop using her cell phone during a New York musical that he grabs it from her and throws it far away. Yes, he is removed from the theater. [Read more]
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Investors beware: global land grabbing ends in 'financial damage' and human rights violations
2013-02-07 19:39:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: Investing in companies that flout local community rights in developing countries often leads to severe economic losses, according to a new report from the Rights and Resources Initiative (RRI). A rising trend in "land grabbing" from Africa to South America by corporations and even foreign governments results in social instability, which can lead to large-scale protests, violence, and even murder, delaying and sometimes derailing projects. Such instability poses massive risk to any investor, not to...
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Water grabbing occurring at 'alarming rates'
2013-01-11 17:12:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
SciDevNet: Deals in which rich foreign corporations and countries buy or lease agricultural land abroad result in nearly half a trillion cubic metres of fresh water also being grabbed each year -- often enough to grow sufficient food to abate undernourishment in the 'grabbed countries', a paper reveals. The majority of land grabbing takes place in Africa and Asia, and the amount of grabbed water per capita often exceeds the water requirements needed to provide a balanced diet to residents in the grabbed nations,...
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