Land-grabbing
It Must Be Stopped!
A statement signed by over 60 environmental, development and farming groups calls for pension funds and other financial institutions to stop land grabbing. “Africa, Asia and Latin America are seeing an acceleration of land grabbing at a rate not seen since colonial times,” says Nyikaw Ochalla of the Anuak people from Ethiopia, whose livelihoods are threatened by land grabs of foreign companies. “Land is the lifeline of hunter–gatherers, pastoralists, fishing and farming communities in the Ethiopian lands targeted by a land grabbing policy. It is a myth that our lands are ‘wastelands,’ only suitable for commercial agricultural development.” Land grabbing by pension funds and other financial institutions must be stopped.
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