Food, Fuel, and the Global Land Grab
Growing demand for food and fuel has put pressure on the world’s agricultural lands to produce more. Now, a trend in “land grabbing” has emerged, as wealthy countries lease or buy farms and agribusiness in
Published : 20 October 2013
Put a Number on It: Quantifying Costs, Losses and Damages from the Violation of Housing and Land Rights
In telling a story, or making any point, we often rely on numbers. In argumentation, numbers lend credibility and suggest analytical precision. Numbers often speaker louder than words, because they convey important measurements and values
Published : 13 October 2013
Transnational Corporations and Land Rights Violations
Today Oxfam launched a new phase in our Behind the Brands campaign to ensure land rights for rural communities are part of the supply chains of the Big 10 food and beverage companies. Oxfam’s newly published
Published : 02 October 2013
Palestine: Gaza out of Drinking Water by 2016
The Gaza Strip is fast running out of clean drinking water. Unless immediate action is taken, the UN estimates that the underground aquifer on which Gaza relies will be unusable by 2016, and irreversibly damaged
Published : 29 September 2013
Ethiopia: No Human Rights = No Development
OAKLAND CA— In a report submitted to the UN Human Rights Council’s Universal Periodic Review (UPR) on September 15, 2013, the Oakland Institute and the Housing and Land Rights Network outlined the human rights and
Published : 26 September 2013
Neo-colonialism, China accused “Land Grab” in Ukraine
Ukraine has agreed a deal with a Chinese company to lease 5% of its land to feed China’s burgeoning population, it was reported on Tuesday. It would be the biggest so called “land grab” agreement, where
Published : 25 September 2013
Investors and Land Grab of Farmers
Land grabbing has become a hot topic in the international development community and beyond. The term usually refers to the acquisition of large areas of land by powerful investors, without respecting the rights and interests
Published : 20 September 2013
Hunger, Food Security, and the African Land Grab
If you were organizing dinner parties for the world, you would need to put out 219,000 more place settings every night than you had the night before.1 That is how fast the Earth’s population is
Published : 16 September 2013
Ethiopia under Human Rights Review
In the current, second round of the UN Human Rights Council’s Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of all UN member states, Ethiopia soon faces the scrutiny of its peers. While the full review is scheduled for
Published : 16 September 2013
