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Confronting Megaprojects: Development without our consent is not development | Indigenous Women

2.11.13

Confronting Megaprojects: Development without our consent is not development | Indigenous Women: The World Conference of Indigenous Women coincided with the release of a new report from The Rights and Resources Initiative, which used GIS mapping technology to reveal that at least 31% of industrial concession areas in emerging market economies are overlapped by indigenous community land. The research studied over 153 million hectares of agricultural, forestry and mineral extraction concessions in Argentina, Brazil, Cambodia, Cameroon, Chile, Colombia, Liberia, Indonesia, Malaysia, Mozambique, Peru, and the Philippines, finding that it overlapped 48.3 million hectares of indigenous territory.


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