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Communal lands the combined size of Portugal have been taken over by corporate interests for carbon offsetting schemes across the Global South, according to a new report that warns of a “new form of land grabbing.”

How did Brazil become a laboratory for agroinvestment? Through an alliance between big finance and agribusiness. Now, ordinary people are being pulled into financing land- and watergrabbers themselves.

India’s growing embrace of industrial palm oil threatens the nation’s rich diversity of oilseed crops. What are the risks for farmers, public health and the environment?

Financial players are moving aggressively to snatch up lands around the world with access to water for irrigation. Their strategy is to pump as much water as they can and as fast as they can into the production of crops that reap high prices in export markets.

Farmland purchases by the Harvard endowment contributed to a climate of anxiety, fear, and strain on Brazilian subsistence farmers.

Tandis que la COP 27 bat son plein en Égypte, et que tous les regards sont à nouveau tournés vers cette conférence climatique devenue le grand carnaval des promesses qui ne seront jamais tenues, une question hante sûrement de nombreux Nigériens et Nigériennes : la vente de crédits carbone, va-t-elle procurer le moindre bénéfice pour les communautés et le climat ?

Conversaciones con activistas de todo el mundo en mayo y junio de 2022, dejan en claro la necesidad de un movimiento político y social para sacar las pensiones de los mercados financieros, incluso para acaparar la tierra

Les conversations organisées en mai et juin 2022 avec des militants des quatre coins du monde envoient un message clair : nous avons besoin d’un mouvement à même de retirer les retraites des marchés financiers, y compris pour accaparer des terres

Conversations held with activists from around the world in May and June webinars of 2022 make clear the need for a movement to take pensions out of financial markets - including land grabs!

Para corporaciones e inversionistas, el acceso a informaciones actualizadas de un “perfil digital de tierras” permite localizar, cuantificar la oferta y la demanda y fijar precios sobre las tierras, la producción y los recursos naturales, así como los créditos de carbono.

Many oil palm plantations’ concessions in West and Central Africa were built on lands stolen from communities during colonial occupations. This is the case in the DRC, where food company Unilever began its palm oil empire. Today, these plantations are still sites of ongoing poverty and violence.

Claramente el acaparamiento de la tierras está contribuyendo a la agudización de la crisis climática y genera así una espiral de destrucción que en la actualidad se ve reflejado en todo el Cono Sur.