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Palm Oil AlterLinks Topic Index 'Land Grabbing': exposing the impacts of large-scale agriculture on local communities Film review Resource Type: Article Published: 2016 Agriculture is big business and with the EU pumping money at the sector, the corporate profiteers are holding all the aces. The documentary 'Land Grabbing' investigates what happens when well-financed agro-investors take over rural communities' land and water. Neoliberal Ebola: The Agroeconomic Origins of the Ebola Outbreak Resource Type: Article Published: 2015 Wallace describes the rise of Ebola, connecting its outbreak to capital-driven shifts in land and changes in the agroeconomic context. Scientists: protect vast Amazon peatland to avoid palm oil 'environmental disaster' A recently discovered peatland in northeast Peru contains two years worth of US carbon emissions, writes Joe Sandler Clarke, but it's under Resource Type: Article Published: 2017 The peatland in Pastaza-Marañón Foreland Basin in northeast Peru - discovered in 2009 by Finnish scientist Outi Lähteenoja - is said to contain 3.14 gigatons of carbon, roughly equivalent to two years of CO2 emissions from the United States. Scientists have said that economic development in the region, like road-building and the arrival of commercial agriculture threatens the important ecosystem.

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