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[26 Feb 2010 | Comments Off | Najma Sadeque]
The Carbon Scam

The biggest polluters on the planet have managed to legitimise their “right to pollute” more than they are entitled to via carbon trading.

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[26 Feb 2010 | Comments Off | Najma Sadeque]
Smooth Operator

Neither government nor polluter, the World Bank has managed to worm its way into the carbon trade.

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[26 Oct 2009 | Comments Off | Najma Sadeque]
Giving Away the Family Silver

Foreign investors are eyeing Pakistan’s agricultural land and the government is entertaining their offers. But will Pakistani citizens benefit at all in the long-run?

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[26 Oct 2009 | Comments Off | Najma Sadeque]
The Global Land Grab

It’s not happening in Pakistan alone. Prime farmland in other developing countries is also being acquired by foreign investors, mainly from the West and the oil-rich Middle Eastern countries.

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[4 Jul 2009 | Comments Off | Najma Sadeque]
Whose Land is it Anyway?

Afraid of a land-rights precedent being set, feudals persistently block the attempts of the Khaskheli tribe to regularise the village they have lived in for 40 years.