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Food insecurity, famine and malnutrition have blighted the agropastoralist communities of the Lower Omo River Valley in southwestern Ethiopia. Researchers and human rights advocates say the drought has only exacerbated fundamental changes to the cultures of these peoples brought on by the construction of a dam and the establishment of sugarcane plantations in the region.
The Maasai have suffered over a century of forced evictions from their ancestral lands in Tanzania in the name of both game hunting and conservation. Has recognition that global biodiversity goals depend on indigenous peoples come too late?
After the Ukrainian authorities opened the land market in the spring of 2020 and at the same time prevented farmers from building up their muscles by curtailing their financial support programs, it became obvious that the state, developing agriculture, would rely on agricultural holdings according to the Latin American version.
Reportage from where a private company and state-led border building converge to violently evict people from their ancestral land.
By John Cannon
The update from the Oakland Institute, a U.S.-based environmental think tank, found that the government forcefully confiscated some 5,880 cattle and 767 goats and sheep from the Maasai in November and December last year and is demanding that owners pay heavy fines.
Alan Guebert
Many policy choices are made on politics alone while other key decision-making elements like cost, science, and even common sense play a lesser or no role at all.
In the old days, this political math resulted in — literally and figuratively — “bridges to nowhere” that cost millions and did little other than raise the...
Global market liberalization and the war machine are happy bedfellows, as usual.
Solidarity-based research like that of the Oakland Institute map the material, fiscal, and power dynamics of water grabs and support movement efforts to hold governments and public institutions to account for the abuses of multinational corporations, including mining companies, big agriculture, and big beverage companies.