In land grabs, as in life, there is only one chance to be the first.

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"Biofuels, like palm oil, produce more carbon emissions than they save, fuel land grabs and increase global food prices, " she said.

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Mr Fasanando says that this ambiguity encourages land grabs, migration and deforestation.

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Other companies besides Amazon are looking at similar land grabs.

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They balk, too, at the land grabs.

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The Data Protection Act is there to protect people from land-grabs such as this.

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Environmentalists say the bill would increase the rate of land-grabs, with a knock-on rise in illegal logging likely.

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Mr Riaz, or his company, have some 100 court cases pending against them which implicate them in crimes ranging from murder to land-grabs.

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While land-grabs and exploration for natural gas and renewables continues across the natural landscape, prospecting for a different prize has gradually taken hold in the built environment.

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All of which is very good for the social side of agriculture - boosting employment (in the same way that artisanal fishing provides more jobs than the industrial kind), promoting local ownership of land and, in the poorest countries, mitigating against land-grabs.

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