{"id":250216,"date":"2016-06-16T15:40:52","date_gmt":"2016-06-16T15:40:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/land-grabs-soar-worsening-land-conflicts-and-climate-change\/"},"modified":"2016-06-16T15:40:52","modified_gmt":"2016-06-16T15:40:52","slug":"land-grabs-soar-worsening-land-conflicts-and-climate-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/land-grabs-soar-worsening-land-conflicts-and-climate-change\/","title":{"rendered":"Land Grabs Soar, Worsening Land Conflicts and Climate Change"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"AA woman farms with her cow in rural Bangladesh on May 13, 2007. (Photo: Jankie<\/a>)<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Industrial agriculture and financial sectors are hand-in-hand worsening climate change and then profiting from it, with an unprecedented number of land grabs over the last eight years, according to a report<\/a> released Tuesday.<\/p>\n

The campaign group GRAIN explained that land grabs are heightening food insecurity, entrenching corporate agriculture schemes, and increasing and intensifying land conflicts.<\/p>\n

The wave of global land grabs borne out of the 2008 food and financial crises has now reached tsunami proportions, as GRAIN’s research<\/a> shows that the number of land grab initiatives has ballooned from 100 in 2008 to 491 in 2016, spanning 78 countries across the globe with large concentrations in Africa, and to a lesser extent in Latin America, East Asia and the Pacific.<\/p>\n

And climate change is compounding the situation.<\/p>\n

“We now have even more evidence that climate change is caused not just by burning coal and oil for transport and energy, but by the industrial food system itself and the corporate quest for profits that drives its expansion,” the report states. “Indeed, climate change and land grabs are inextricably linked.”<\/p>\n

The people suffering the brunt of this are small-scale farmers, pastoralists, and Indigenous communities, who are displaced by multinational corporations and financial investors scrambling for arable lands and water resources.<\/p>\n

According to Kartini Samon, a GRAIN researcher from Indonesia, land grabs are also a form of neocolonialism<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“If we reflect on the old style of colonialism … (it) is really about extracting natural resources and cheap labor; expanding plantations in colonial lands like the case in Indonesia,” Samon told teleSUR. “The pattern is the same now, but using different strategies either through trade and investment agreements or implementing laws that legalize the process to happen.”<\/p>\n

The Trans-Pacific Partnership, or TPP<\/a>, for instance, is a trade agreement on the…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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A woman farms with her cow in rural Bangladesh on May 13, 2007. (Photo: Jankie) Industrial agriculture and financial sectors are hand-in-hand worsening climate change and then profiting from it, with an unprecedented number of land grabs over the last eight years, according to a report released Tuesday. The campaign group GRAIN explained that land […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":250217,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-250216","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=250216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250216\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/250217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}