Carbon Colonialism: The Failure of Green Resources' Carbon Offset Project in Uganda Kristen Lyons and David Ssemwogerere. The Oakland Institute -- Dec 2017
Carbon Crooks - A Film About Carbon, Credits and Crooks [Video] Tom Heinemann, Director -- Sep 2013
Carbon Pricing: A Critical Perspective for Community Resistence Tamra Gilbertson, Indigenous Environmental Network & Climate Justice Alliance -- Oct 2017
CIMI: Annual Report on Violence Suffered by Indigenous Peoples in Brazil Indigenous Missionary Council, Brazilian Catholic Bishops' Council -- 05 Oct 2017 The data for 2016 documents an increase in cases of the most flagrant violations of basic human rights, such as murder, assinations, child mortality, suicides, chronic malnutrion and lack of legal recognition to ancestral lands. Political setbacks, due to the ever-increasing power of the Ruralist Lobby in Brazil, are a main driver of the violent disregard and offensive attacks on indigenous communities in the country. See the Report in Portuguese
Common Ground: Securing Land Rights and Safeguarding the Earth Fred Pearce, Land Rights Now: A Global Call to Action on Indigenous and Community Land Rights -- Mar 2016
Corporatising Agriculture: World Bank Rankings Facilitate Land Grabs [Article] Alice Martin-Prével, Bretton Woods Project -- 09 May 2014
Deadly Environment: The Rise in Killings of Environmental and Land Defenders Global Witness -- 2014
Dealing with Disclosure: Improving Transparency in Decision-Making over Large-Scale Land Acquisitions, Allocations, and Investments International Land Coalition The Oakland Institute Global Witness -- Apr 2012
Food Crisis and the Global Land Grab: Governments and Corporations are Buying up Farmland in Other Countries to Grow Their Own Food - or Simply to Make Money GRAIN - A Collection of Solid Resources on the Topic -- 2013
Invested In Exploitation: TIAA’s Links To Land Grabbing & Deforestation ActionAid USA, Friends of the Earth, Inclusive Development International, Rede Social de Justiça e Direitos Humanos - Apr 2017
Licensed to Grab: How International Investment Rules Undermine Agrarian Justice Pietje Vervest and Timothé Feodoroff, Transnational Institute -- Jan 2015
Make Money, Save Forest: Part 1 [Video - English sub-titles] Antonio Aldo "Tony" Papaleo, Investigative Journalist -- 2014
Missing the Poorest for the Trees: REDD+ and the Link Between Forestry, Resilience and Peacebuilding, Tobias F. Dorr, Adriaan B. Heskamp, Ian B. Madison, Katherine D. Reichel, London School of Economics and International Alert -- June 2013
My Home, My Land: A Graphic Novel on Land Grabs Oakland Institute -- 2015 "... this publication dismantles the many myths promoted by so-called donor countries, development agencies, and corporations about the positive effects of foreign direct investments through large-scale land acquisitions."
Nature Not For Sale [Website] Challenging Biodiversity Offsetting and the Financialisation of Nature See Also Open letter to Commissioner Potočnik about biodiversity offsetting (below)
Nature is Not For Sale: The Dangers of Commodifying Our Natural World Friends of the Earth Europe -- June 2014
Opening Pandora's Box: The New Wave of Land Grabbing by the Extractive Industries and the Devastating Impact on Earth Philippe Sibaud, Commissioned by the Gaia Foundation -- 2012
Planet for Sale: Food Crisis and the Global Land Grab [Documentary] Alexis Marant, produced by CAPA PRESSE TV, Distributed by ARTE -- May 2011 50 minute version of the full 90 minute French Documentary
Planet Palm Oil: Peasants Pay the Price for Cheap Vegetable Oil GRAIN -- Sep 2014
PLANT Report: Current Risks to Amazonian Traditional Peoples PLANT (Partners for the Land & Agricultural Needs of Traditional Peoples) -- Mar 2012
PLANT SPECIAL REPORT: Indigenous Communities' Struggles for Recognition -- 2018 "The laws supposed to protect traditional peoples’ rights to their lands and ways of livelihood are becoming progressively corroded in Brazil ... Community leaders continue their struggle for recognition despite death threats, assassinations and multiple schemes of encroachment into their lands and interwoven waterways."
Protected Areas in the Congo Basin: Failing Both People and Biodiversity? Aili Pyhälä, Ana Osuna Orozco, Simon Counsell, Rainforest Foundation UK -- Apr 2016
REDD in Brazil: Two Case Studies on Early Forest Carbon Offset Projects Jutta Kill, Heinrich Böll Foundation Brazil -- 2014
REDD+ in Central America: It's Better to Ask for Forgiveness than Permission Henry Picando, Kioscos Ambientales, Mariana, World Rainforest Movement -- 21 Oct 2016
REDD-Monitor [Website] Analyzes and critiques the Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD) mechanism that has been under negotiation by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) since 2005. [Note: The now commonly used term REDD +"goes beyond deforestation and forest degradation, and includes the role of conservation, sustainable management of forests and enhancement of forest carbon stocks"] See UN-REDD Programme.
Territories of Life: A Video Toolkit for Indigenous Peoples about Land and Rights LifeMosaic, Supporting Indigenous Peoples to Defend Their Rights, Edinburgh, Scotland -- 2015
The Darker Side of Green: Plantation Forestry and Carbon Violence in Uganda Assoc. Prof. Kristen Lyons, Dr. Carol Richards and Dr. Peter Westoby, published by the Oakland Institute -- Nov 2014
The Great Land Grab: Rush for World's Farmland Threatens Food Security for the Poor Shepard Daniel with Anuradha Mittal, The Oakland Institute -- 2009
The Great Land Heist: How the World is Paving the Way for Corporate Land Grabs Julian Oram, ActionAid International -- May 2014
The Great REDD Gamble: Time to Ditch Risky REDD for Community-Based Approaches that are Effective, Ethical and Equitable Ronnie Hall, Friends of the Earth International -- Oct 2014
The Highest Bidder Takes It All: The World Bank's Scheme to Privatize the Commons Frédéric Mousseau et al, The Oakland Institute - 2019
Willful Blindness: World Bank's Country Rankings Impoverish Smallholder Farmers Alice Martin-Prével, the Oakland Institute -- 2014 (See "Our Land, Our Business" above)