Study : Israel ranks among world’s most harmful land-grabbers Israel News

▻http://www.haaretz.com/news/national/study-israel-ranks-among-world-s-most-harmful-land-grabbers.premium-1.49990

The leading land grabbers are the United States, Britain and China. But smaller countries also make the list, among them Israel. Israel makes the list due to large-scale purchases of agricultural lands in Colombia, where sugar cane for biofuel is grown, and in the Democratic Republic of Congo, where jatropha, another plant used in biofuel, is grown.

The researchers note that crops planted on purchased land sometimes come at the expense of forests or other ecologically important zones. These crops also result in more water being used by rich countries, at the expense of the host country’s ability to grow food for its own people. According to the study, 60 percent of the water used for such crops serves the United States, United Arab Emirates, India, Britain, Egypt, China and Israel.

#terres (c’est comme que je répertorie tout ce qui concerne l’accaparement de terres ou land grabbing)