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Food supply fears spark China land grab
2016-09-26 11:26:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate News Network: China is protecting itself against future food supply problems caused by climate change by buying or leasing large tracts of land in Africa and South America, a leading UK climate scientist says. Professor Peter Wadhams, an expert on the disappearing Arctic ice, says that while countries in North America and Europe are ignoring the threat that changing weather patterns are causing to the world food supply, China is taking self-protective action. He says that changes in the jet stream caused by...
Get off my land!
2016-09-23 01:03:44| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
Up to a billion people in Africa derive their main income from farming, but many get embroiled in disputes over whether they really own their land. Can tech help?
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Sylvan-Highlands | 9-20-16 | 1530 SW 58th Ave | Land Division Subdivision Review - HEARING | LU 15-221513 LDS
2016-09-23 00:58:40| PortlandOnline
PDF Document, 669kbCategory: Neighbors West/Northwest
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Land grabbing and environmental destruction could now be prosecuted under international law
2016-09-22 22:15:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: The International Criminal Court (ICC), housed at The Hague in the Netherlands, has mostly focused on human rights abuses and war crimes committed during armed conflicts throughout its 14-year history. But the court has now signaled that it will begin investigating crimes such as land grabbing, environmental destruction, and forced evictions that are often committed during peacetime in the pursuit of profit. In a detailed policy paper on case selection and prioritization released last week, ICC...
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Peace Pipes, Not Oil Pipes: Indians Battle Modern-Day Cowboys to Save Sacred Land
2016-09-22 21:24:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
TomDispatch: Cowboys and Indians are at it again. Americans who don't live in the West may think that the historic clash of Native Americans and pioneering settlers is long past because the Indians were, after all, defeated and now drive cars, watch television, and shop at Walmart. Not so. That classic American narrative is back big time, only the Indians are now the good guys and the cowboys--well, their right-wing representatives, anyway--are on the warpath, trying to grab 640 million acres of public...
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