Imagine being kicked out of your home. Imagine never being able to return.
Thousands of people around the globe do not have to imagine what this is like because it is happening now.
Come to a public talk, given by Beth Knowles, Oxfam Activism and Community Campaigner (North of England). Beth will be speaking about land grabs in the developing world.
The 2007–08 food prices crisis has led to an increase in land deals in the developing world. These deals often:
- Violate human rights;
- Flout the principle of informed consent;
- Ignore environmental and economic impacts;
- Avoid transparent contracts;
- Eschew democratic planning;
And can rightly be described as “land grabs”.[1]
Land acquired in this manner is often left idle in the knowledge the land’s value will increase. In other cases it is used to grow food, cut-flowers and palm oil for foreign markets. In either case without strict rules governing land sales poor families will lose their livelihoods.
Major drivers of this process of environmental damage include perverse western policies aimed at reducing carbon emissions such as carbon trading and biofuel mandates.
Beth Knowles from Oxfam will be talking at a public meeting about the scale of the problem of land grabs and what we can do about it. The meeting takes place at Aigburth Cricket Club, Southwood Road, St Michaels Station, Liverpool, L17 7BQ.
Places are limited so please book for this meeting to avoid disappointment. Contact Alex Ferguson via email, or telephone 0151 427 3071 or 07905 931738.
For further information about land grabs and what you can do see:
www.commercialpressuresonland.org
www.farmlandgrab.org
p>[1] Source Land and Power: The growing scandal surrounding the new wave of investments in land.
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