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News - Livelihoods and Culture

World Bank and UN carbon offset scheme ‘complicit’ in genocidal land grabs - NGOs

3rd Jul 2014
Plight of Kenya's indigenous Sengwer shows carbon offsets are empowering corporate recolonisation of the South. (The Guardian)

As forests are cleared and species vanish, there’s one other loss: a world of languages

8th Jun 2014
A new report shows a direct link between disappearing habitats and the loss of languages. One in four of the world's 7,000 spoken tongues is now at risk of falling silent for ever as the threat to cultural biodiversity grows. (The Guardian 2014)

Langrabbing is bad, it must be stopped

4th Jun 2014
It is incredible that respectable leaders, including those in CCM and the government, should collude with village leaders to usurp land from poor subsistence peasants in the rural drought-prone district. (Daily News)

Can Pepsi and Coke end land grabs for sugar?

3rd Jun 2014
Since Oxfam reported sugar land conflicts last year, two big buyers – Coca-Cola and PepsiCo – have stepped in with new supplier policies. But they have a long way to go. (The Guardian)

Hungry for land: small farmers feed the world with less than a quarter of all farmland

28th May 2014
It is commonly heard today that small farmers produce most of the world's food. But how many of us realise that they are doing this with less than a quarter of the world's farmland, and that even this meagre share is shrinking fast? (GRAIN)

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