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"Buy land as not produced more! "The ironic comment of Mark Twain on the boom of land acquisition in North America in the late nineteenth century remains as relevant maintaining today as it was then. Over 100 years later, the magnitude of current land purchases globally and the appropriation of land from local people maintaining is unprecedented since the colonial land acquisitions nineteenth and early twentieth century.
Stimulated by global spike in food prices towards the end of the 2000s, several rich countries that rely on imports of food, began buying large tracts of land in the developing world to achieve their own food security. maintaining And with the emergence of the biofuels market, plantations for reforestation and the increasing expansion of cash crops like oil palm, control of large tracts of forest in the world has been transferred from state to private owners, destroying the process maintaining valuable forest resources, especially wood.
The economic engines of this land conversion have been widely documented. Governments with large tracts of land will be favored with the expansion of agricultural production, despite the immediate impact on their rural populations, who often do not benefit from this type of economic development and face rather the annexation of their customary lands .
While the phenomenon of "land grabbing", as it has become known, continues nonstop movement, increasingly more subtle and questionable from an ethical point of view, it has gained momentum. Globally, large tracts maintaining of land are being appropriated by the environmental agenda, a process that has found great acceptance among influential international conservation NGOs. The journalist British newspaper The Guardian, John Vidal, described this new approach to conservation and "green grabbing".
This appropriation of land, based on the environment, is not a new concept. In late 1980, then background maintaining Earthlife offered to private maintaining buyers the opportunity to purchase an acre of newly created maintaining Korup National Park in Cameroon to ensure long-term preservation. The scheme failed for different reasons, but despite the initial limitations that this initiative represented, maintaining marketing nature has gradually become the dominant approach to conservation.
A clear example is the spread of portals like Ecosystems Marketplace, among others, who argue that markets for ecosystem services provided by nature will be integrated into a future fully to our current economic systems. And as John Vidal stated, land acquisition for conservation has become the preserve of the wealthy, exclusive and supposedly interested in ethical investment.
In a position paper published in a recent special issue of the Journal of Peasant Studies, James Fairhead and colleagues show the increasing prevalence of "green grabbing" and how the environment sector is influencing the way we perceive and manage maintaining nature. These researchers offer a revealing analysis showing how far along the environmental sector to accept the market economy, whether for carbon services, biodiversity and ecosystem services.
Fairhead and colleagues argue that the commodification of nature reflected a global trend towards neoliberalism, where the market supposedly defines and dictates what we should and should not judge. Therefore, schemes maintaining Payments for Environmental Services (PES), Reducing Emissions from Deforestation maintaining and Forest Degradation (REDD) and other market-based initiatives have been included in the conservation agenda.
Increasingly, nature has become a source of financial gain, generating unexpected alliances between companies, governments with large tracts of land, the banking industry, international conservation NGOs and the donor community. In light of the recent loss of confidence in the global financial industry and the resulting global recession, perhaps surprising that our environmental concerns be influenced by the need to integrate markets for carbon and other natural products to our economies. It seems that money talks. But is this true?
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