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Tanzania: ‘large-scale farming turns small farmers into mere labourers’

18th Feb 2014
Critics of New Alliance say private investment and improvements in rural infrastructure will not liberate people from poverty (Claire Provost, Erick Kabendera / Guerdian)

Indigenous group defends water, land against dam threat

16th Feb 2014
The Cora community refuses to accept the artificial reservoir in the San Pedro Mezquital River because it would inundate or endanger 18 sacred sites and would place conditions on their traditional cultural practices. (Agustin del Castillo / CIP Americas Program)

Pace of global land rights reform is slowing, says new report

14th Feb 2014
Change is promised but land grabs continue and 61% of forests are still claimed by governments (David HIll / Guardian)

Mauritanian villagers protest Saudi National Prawn Company investment

5th Feb 2014
Villagers in Boghé, a community 190 miles south west of the Mauritanian capital of Nouakchott, are protesting a proposed $1 billion investment by the Saudi National Prawn Company (NPC) in an aquaculture project in the Senegal river valley that will cover 31,000 hectares. (Richard Smallteacher / CorpWatch Blog)

It’s slash and burn for Russia’s Indigenous

23rd Jan 2014
Russia’s indigenous people stand up for their land rights in a quarrel with oil companies and raise issues of environmental and economic justice. Could this move other Russians to rethink the real costs of a resource-based economy? (350.org / Global Voices)

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