Landgrabbing: Contested meanings of land

20/09/2019
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Palm oil plantation on indigenous peoples lands/forests in Myeik District, Tanintharyi Region, Myanmar.
Foto: J. Franco
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Across the world, peasants, pastoralists, fishers, and indigenous peoples are losing their once effective control over the land, water, wetlands, pastures, fishing grounds and forests on which they depend including the right to decide how these natural resources will be used, when and by whom, at what scale and for what purposes, often for generations to come....

 

- Sylvia Kay, Transnational Institute - TNI.

[Read the article below.]

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This is a chapter first published in the Spotlight Report on Sustainability in Europe by SDG Watch Europe, called 'Who is paying the bill ? (Negative) impacts of EU policies and practices in the world'

You can find the full report here.

https://www.alainet.org/es/node/202240
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