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The great land heist: how the world is paving the way for corporate land grabs [1]

For millions of people living in the world’s poorest countries, access to land is a matter not of wealth, but of survival, identity and belonging. Most of the 1.4 billion people earning less than US$1.25 a day live in rural areas and depend largely on agriculture for their livelihoods, while an estimated 2.5 billion people are involved in full- or part-time smallholder agriculture.

Smallholder farmers, pastoral societies, forest dwellers and fishermen and women all rely directly on land and natural resources for their livelihoods, as a primary source of food for their families, and for the innate value their environment often holds as the centre of their cultural identity.

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Publication Date: 
01/05/2014
ActionAid International [13]
Tags:
Land Acquisition [14], Agriculture [15], Farmers [16], Poverty [17], Food Security [18], Displacement [19], Developing Countries [20], India [21]

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Source URL: http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/reports-documents/great-land-heist-how-world-paving-way-corporate-land-grabs

Links:
[1] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/reports-documents/great-land-heist-how-world-paving-way-corporate-land-grabs
[2] <br />
http://www.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/content/379050/environmental-and-social-risks-in-project-financing-evidence-from-india/
[3] http://www.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/reports-documents/right-fair-compensation-and-transparency-land-acquisition-rehabilitation-and-0
[4] http://www.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/reports-documents/posco-project-take-soon
[5] <br />
http://www.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/reports-documents/building-community-resistance-against-land-grabbing
[6] http://www.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/reports-documents/singur-sompeta-people%E2%80%99s-resistance-against-land-grabbing-gaining-power-india
[7] http://www.downtoearth.org.in/content/moef-says-final-no-vedanta
[8] http://www.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/reports-documents/land-grabs-and-fragile-food-systems-role-globalization
[9] http://www.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/reports-documents/our-land-our-lives-time-out-global-land-rush
[10] http://www.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/reports-documents/lay-land-improving-land-governance-stop-land-grabs
[11] http://www.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/reports-documents/global-land-rush-what-evidence-reveals-about-scale-and-geography
[12] http://www.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/90/thesaurus/land-acquisition/
[13] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/publisher/actionaid-international
[14] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/land-acquisition
[15] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/agriculture
[16] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/farmers
[17] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/poverty
[18] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/food-security
[19] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/displacement
[20] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/developing-countries
[21] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/india