Farmers in Mozambique fear Brazilian-style agriculture. IPS | 28 December 2013 Photo: União Nacional de Camponeses Farmers in Mozambique Fear Brazilian-Style Agriculture By Amos Zacarias NAMPULA, Mozambique , Dec 28 2013 (IPS) - Rodolfo Razão, an elderly small farmer in Mozambique, obtained an official land usage certificate for his 10 hectares in 2010, but he has only been able to use seven.
The rest was occupied by a South African company that grows soy, maize and beans on some 10,000 hectares in the northeast of the country. He got nowhere filing a complaint with the authorities in the district of Monapo, where he lives, in the province of Nampula. Brígida Mohamad, a 50-year-old widow, is worried about one of her seven children, whose land was also invaded by a company. “My son has nowhere to grow his crops; our ‘machambas’ [farms] aren’t for sale,” she complained when she met with IPS in Nacololo, the village in Monapo where she has lived her whole life.
Cassava is the basis of the local diet. Cambodge: brève interpellation de militantes du droit de la terre. Landgrabbing for Nigeria's rice revolution. The North-Eastern Nigerian State of Taraba is on the verge of handing over 30,000 hectares of land to Dominion Farms.
The Memorandum of Understanding of the public-private partnership was signed in February 2012. The mega-project is expected to reduce Nigerian rice imports by 15%. But what is been described as the prelude to Nigeria's rice revolution could result in livelihood losses for about 45,000 inhabitants who will have to vacate their lands. This intervention also raises concerns about the depletion of an important grazing area: Mutum Biyu Gassol Local Government Area of Taraba State, where the land being given to Dominion is located, is said to metamorphose into a "Lagos of Cows" during the Harmattan season.
Taraba/Gassol, Mutum Biyu L.G.A. - Dominion Rice Farms and Integrated Ltd. aiming to cultivate and process mainly rice on an area of 30,000 hectares has taken off by importing equipment and establishing an administration at the site. No action taken on fresh land grab in Attappady. The government is yet to take any action on an inquiry report filed by the Integrated Tribal Development Project (ITDP) officer on eight cases of fresh encroachment upon tribal land in the grama panchayats of Sholayur, Pudur and Agali in Attappady.
The project officer had sent a report on land grab using fabricated documents to the government in May this year. ITDP Officer P.V. Radhakrishnan has again written to the Director of Tribal Welfare Department seeking action against land grabbers under the Kerala Scheduled Tribes (Restriction on Transfer of Lands and Restoration of Alienated Lands) Amendment Act, 1996. Survey sought He urged the government to order a joint verification and survey by the Revenue, Registration and Forest Departments to find out the extent of land lost by the tribal people.
Liberian communities continue to resist landgrabbing by UK company Equatorial Palm Oil. Liberian communities continue to resist landgrabbing by UK company Equatorial Palm Oil Sustainable Development Institute (SDI) | 10 December 2013 Liberian communities continue to resist landgrabbing by UK company Equatorial Palm Oil MONROVIA, LIBERIA, December 10th 2013 – The RSPO complaint by Liberian communities extends to Equatorial Palm Oil’s new majority shareholder Kuala Lumpur Kepong Bhd (KLK).
Portland, Ore.: Oregon wine country at center of global land grab. Seattle DJC.com local business news and data - Real Estate - Winery land grab is on in Oregon. Planned Hofmann Forest’s sale spins web of opinions - Local. North Carolina Coastal Federation is seeking information related to the planned sale of Hofmann Forest amid concerns the land will be cleared for farmland or other uses.
Federation Executive Director Todd Miller has filed a request under the Freedom of Information Act seeking documents from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for any authorizations since 1972 that have allowed ditches to be dug on the property and the conversion of wetlands to uplands. The request trails information made public this month that suggests as much as 50,000 acres of woodlands could be converted to farmland and nearly 10,000 acres made available for new homes and commercial development. “As a representative of a nonprofit conservation group . . .
The FOIA request also seeks information about 5,502 acres that recently were clear cut, which would allow conversion of the forest land to agricultural use without a Corps permit. Lawsuit dismissed N.C. “Throughout the sales process, N.C. Ethiopian program to lease farmland for food production to private investors encounters setbacks- report.
A report from Bloomberg said the plan of the government of Ethiopia to lease farmland to private investors has suffered various setbacks.
The government set the program in place starting in 2008 in a bid to triple its food exports by 2015. One of the first to take advantage of the program is Bangalore, India-based agricultural firm Karuturi Global Ltd. Managing Director Ramakrishna Karuturi told Bloomberg that 80% of the land leased, which was located in the country's Gambella region, is located in a flood plain. For up to seven months of the year, their 100,000-hectare concession gets flooded by the Baro River. Philipp Baumgartner told Bloomberg through email, "Karuturi, like many other large-scale investors, underestimated the complexity of opening land for large-scale commercial agriculture. In 2008, the Ethiopian government started to lease land for as low as USD 1 a hectare each year. Property owner says county’s land grab ruined development plans. BOILING SPRING LAKES—A Boiling Spring Lakes property owner who lost one of his lots to Brunswick County because of eminent domain says the condemnation killed his development plans.
Dan Lichty spoke to county commissioners Dec. 3. He said he was surprised to learn that morning the county was digging up a lot to install a pump station for the Boiling Spring Lakes Wastewater collection project. Lichty and his wife, Sarah, owned the property at the corner of West North Shore Drive and Lake Mount Road, a block off George II Highway behind the Kopp’s II convenience store. “I came out Monday and told them to get off my property. The Big Data Landgrab, Are You Missing Out?
I had an interesting conversation with a colleague the other day about the value and price of big data. He posited that as more people and companies figure out the value of big data, the price of buying datasets will go up, and thus a market opportunity exists to start snapping-up datasets. I disagreed with him. I argued that the value of data is relative and supply is inelastic, meaning data is going to continue to be generated regardless of its market price – and much of it will be available free.
Therefore, price will approach zero in the long run. British Land Grab: From Antarctica to Queen Elizabeth Land? The three countries, for much of the first part of the 20th century, were locked into diplomatic, scientific and geographical struggles designed to cement their sovereignty claims to the region.
In 1951, a Foreign Office official, Bill Hunter-Christie, described it as “the Antarctic Problem”. It turned out to be typical British under-statement. Argentina under the leadership of Juan Domingo Peron was busy raising the profile of “Argentine Antarctic Territory” via a series of calculated investments in base construction, aerial photography and public education. Producing maps and charts was considered vital to consolidating geopolitical influence. With the absence of an indigenous human population, maps and charts have always been instruments of power in the polar context. Gulmarg Land Grab: Latest News, Videos, Photos. 12 Feb 2014,19:55 IST Economic offence cell (EOC) has booked second case against Moses Joao Fernandes and two other for selling another property at Porvorim by preparing forged documents. 04 Feb 2014,21:03 IST.
Attention Focused on How Africans Hurt by Huge Corporate Land Grabs. Statoil expands Marcellus presence with $590M land grab. December 19, 2012 at 7:04 amSimone Sebastian in Deals, Natural gas, Shale Statoil's Torstein Hole, senior vice president for U.S. onshore, and Andy Winkle, vice president for the Marcellus asset, visit a well pad in the Marcellus shale.
(source: Statoil) Statoil has bought 70,000 net acres in the Marcellus shale for $590 million, the Norwegian oil giant announced Wednesday. The company, which also will be operator for the acreage, estimates the region has a risked resource base of 300-500 million barrels of oil equivalent. The deal includes land in Ohio and West Virginia and is currently producing about 5,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day, according to Statoil.
Statoil emphasized that the land is in the liquids-rich region of the Marcellus, instead of areas heavy in dry natural gas, which commands a much lower commodity price in the United States. India inc involved in land grab abroad too, says international non-profit. Companies acquired prime agricultural land in countries suffering high levels of hunger to grow crops for export Indian government and industries are not only subverting the rights of poor people to acquire common land at home, its multinationals seem to be involved in grabbing land abroad, too.
According to the data presented by international non-profit Rights and Resource Initiative (RRI), Indian Government and Indian companies have acquired 63,000 sq km land, an area almost twice the size of Kerala, in Africa, South America and Southeast Asia. The latest data from International Land Coalition Land Matrix shows that India has two deals in Indonesia totalling about 79,847 hectares (ha), one deal in Cambodia totalling 7,635 ha, two deals in Lao PDR totalling 52,207 ha, 15 deals in Ethiopia, three deals in Madagascar and one deal each in Sudan, Cameroon and Mozambique, according to RRI. Santa Fe couple sue over federal land grab that labels - Pacific Legal Foundation. Home » News & Media » Press Releases Santa Fe, New Mexico; December 11, 2012: A Santa Fe area couple today sued the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for labeling a dry creek bed on the couple’s property a “water of the United States” covered by the federal Clean Water Act.
The case could set a nationwide precedent for property owners’ right to challenge unjustified claims of control by Clean Water Act regulators. Peter and Frankie Smith, who live on 20 acres off State Road 14 outside of Santa Fe, sued in Federal District Court in Santa Fe. They are represented by attorneys with Pacific Legal Foundation, a non-profit watchdog organization that litigates nationwide for limited government, property rights, and a balanced approach to environmental regulations. Listen to a discussion of the Smith case with PLF's Jennifer Fry. Oxfam raises land grab issue by 'selling off' Penarth Pier (From Penarth Times) Oxfam raises land grab issue by 'selling off' Penarth Pier 4:40pm Monday 10th December 2012 in News WELSH LANDMARK SOLD: Oxfam Campaigners at the ‘sale’ of Penarth Pier.
Picture Glenn Edwards/Oxfam Cymru. PENARTH Pier was one of the treasured Welsh landmarks “sold” last week - as Oxfam Cymru brought the need to tackle land grabs in developing countries to the public’s attention. Local Oxfam volunteers and campaigners erected spoof “Sold” signs on the pier, as part of Oxfam’s ongoing campaign to stop land grabs, which leave poor people in Africa, Asia and Latin America homeless and without access to the land they rely on for food to eat and to make a living. UN: 'Land Grab' Deals Hurt Local Farmers. UN: 'Land Grab' Deals Hurt Local Farmers BY Steve Baragona VOA News December 07, 2012 Controversial farmland deals in developing countries can have a negative impact on the people who live on the land, according to a new U.N. report. While investment in agriculture is essential to help developing countries reduce hunger and poverty, the U.N. The surging global demand for food, fodder and fuel crops is driving a land rush in parts of the developing world.
Agenda 21 Revealing The Next U.S. Land Grab, The Trojan Horse, Heritage Areas Video. But there is another driving force behind Heritage Areas – something with which all you may very familiar. I mentioned H.R. 4099, a bill now before Congress to “Authorize a National Heritage Area Program, and for other purposes…” The bill describes the need for Heritage Areas this way: So, name a section of our nation that doesn’t contain “significant stories.”
Or locate a place where people from the past didn’t walk, live or carry out their lives. That definition is simply too broad to be practical – if the real purpose is to honor our heritage. Land grab. Land grab is wrong: Israel reacts to U.N. vote with provocative move. Israel's action in the wake of the raising of Palestine's status in the United Nations, which was to announce its intention to build 3,000 more housing units in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem, is wrong in terms of the action itself, the timing, the location and its potential impact on prospects for fruitful Israeli-Palestinian negotiations toward a two-state resolution of the now 64-year-old problem. The United Nations General Assembly voted Thursday by 138-9 with 41 abstentions to upgrade Palestine's status in the U.N. to nonmember observer state status.
Israel and the United States opposed the move but were roundly defeated, in spite of a substantial lobbying effort on the part of both. Israel's immediate response was to express its anger at the move by pressing what is perhaps the most sensitive button, even more painful than air strikes, in its relations with the Palestinians and the international community. Chinese Man Hacked to Death After Protesting Land-Grab. By Wang LiangEpoch Times Staff Created: December 3, 2012 Last Updated: December 5, 2012. Hunger, Food Security, and the African Land Grab.
China Steps Up Farmland, Oil and Mining Assets Acquisitions Abroad. A child holds a Chinese national flag. (Reuters) China's huge population that represents a third of the world and its unprecedented economic growth have resulted in the country's supplies of food, energy and metals and minerals falling far short of demand. Mark Zuckerberg Buys 4 homes for privacy.
Mark Zuckerberg just made an unusual purchase. Well, four purchases. Blood sugar: Oxfam accuses Coke and Pepsi of fueling land grabs. The billionaire land grab. Lederman applauds Federal Delegate opposition to proposed land grab « Dan Lederman Dan Lederman. Israel’s expropriation of Bedouin lands: The Jewish state’s other land grab. SPECIAL REPORT-U.S. builders hoard mineral rights under new homes. Myanmar farmers helpless against land grabbing. DALA: Just after dawn, plainclothes Myanmar naval officers entered a wooden shack and roused a young rice farmer from his sleep. The Scramble For Africa Lands: Cash rich but land poor. Bangladesh land-grab law under scrutiny - Asia. New Report Uncovers Land Grab in Uganda. ZANU PF minister slammed for ‘blatant lies’ about land grabs. The Anatomy of a Shanghai Land Grab. Who’s Grabbing Africa’s Land? U.S. Speculators, Including Universities. St. Pete suing state over waterfront land-grab.
Homeless Vets: Fed Court Smack’s Down UCLA Land Grab. Gorgon's Barrow land grab. Gorgon's Barrow land grab. NYC's Gas Stations and Warehouses Are Being Replaced By "Palaces" Congress seeks Punjab chief justice`s intervention on land grab. China land grab hidden by 'corporate veil' Proposed giant EPA land-grab is rigged, conflicted and corrupted. 64.3m affected by land grab - CHINA. China land grab hidden by 'corporate veil' Land grab: Does Washington's eminent domain law go too far? Land grab: Israel announces east Jerusalem settlements. View topic - Land for Cheap - Land grab in Ethiopia.
Call to arms over Leeds trolleybus ‘land grab’ Is This London’s Latest Tech Land-Grab? - MoneyBeat. NGO Political Warfare Driving Negev Land Grabs. Indian company pays price for land grab « Ethiopia: A voice for the voiceless. Mormon Church Doing A Major Land Grab In Florida. Spartanburg Tea Party » Attempted Land Grab Ends With Voters Booting Entire City Council. California Land Grab Threatens Cerritos Arts Center: Video. Coca-Cola to check Cambodia land-grab claim - Democratic Underground. California Land Grab Threatens Cerritos Arts Center: Video.