Georeferencing — a digital mapping technique increasingly employed by South American governments to register land ownership — is being regularly used by landgrabbers and companies to expel traditional communities from ancestral lands occupied for decades or even centuries, according to a report by GRAIN, an NGO that works with peasant communities around the world. The innovative technology is also allowing a few powerful actors in the international financial sector to play a decisive expanding role in the transformation of large tracts of tropical rainforest and savanna into agricultural lands.
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Technology Partners: MimirTech
Links:
[1] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/reports-documents/digital-fences-financial-enclosure-farmlands-south-america
[2] http://www.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/files/file/Digital fences.pdf
[3] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/publisher/grain
[4] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/land-acquisition
[5] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/land-ownership
[6] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/south-america
[7] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/agricultural-systems
