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5 Enclosures and Rights of Nature Flashcards

1
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When/what were the Enclosure Acts in the UK?

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18th Century

Fencing in of land to prevent others from accessing it

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What did this signify?

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Shift from community led and collective decision making (e.g. when to sow, plough, graze) to fenced fields and individual decision making/ownership

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What was the argument for?

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Underpinned the economic and agricultural development of Britain
Improved the health/quality of landscape
Gave farmers great autonomy

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4
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What was the argument against?

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Theft of land -

Impoverishing the many for the sake of a few

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5
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What was common land and what was it used for pre- 18th century?

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All those in the village had customary rights to access/utilise it for common purposes e.g. grazing, collecting firewood

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Why was common land so important?

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Formed often a significant part of income for poorer families and allowed them to heat their homes/cook, as fuel was very expensive at this time

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Who did well out of the Acts?

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Land owners; they had greater freedom to develop and improve their land and incomes and could sell land which suddenly increased in price to the rising middle class
Church of England; could lease
Landscape; general improvement to draining, bogs, heath land, afforestation etc

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8
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How did the landscape change?

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There were new farms, farm houses, roads which were now outside of the centre of the village
Significant changes to rights of way/bridleways etc

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9
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How was this linked to parliament?

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Land ownership was inherently linked to parliament membership

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10
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Why is there concern that this is happening again in modern Britain?

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Since 1979, state has sold 10% of Britain’s land area and 50% of its public land

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What land has been sold?

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Large amount of Forestry Commission land

Formerly nationalised land e.g. railways, water, steel, coal

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12
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How was the selling of land justified?

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Invoke the ‘hidden hand of the market’ as an agent for greater efficiency

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13
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However what is the main risk of privatisation in reality

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Tragedy of the Commons

In pursuit of the highest rents possible, owners restrict everyone else’s opportunity to enjoy social amenities

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What does privatisation mean for Britain’s least advantaged?

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They have to pay rents that have increased 6-7% per anuum since 1979

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15
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Link with parliament now?

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1/4 of MPs are landlords

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16
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Which factors have driven increasing pressure on global land and water resources?

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Rising food demand
Increasing population
Dietary changes
Enhanced biofuel production driven by rising oil prices and new biofuel policies

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17
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Give an example of a policy that has driven changes in the biofuel industry

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EU 2008 Renewable Energy Directive

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18
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What has this pressure driven?

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Increased purchase of foreign agricultural land by major companies and corporations

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During which years has this trend been greatest and how much land has changed hands?

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2005-2009 with a peak in 2009

45 million ha of land

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20
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Which event in particular increased the amount of land grabbing?

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Global Food Crisis 2007-2008

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21
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Which commodities in particular increased in price?

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Wheat, rice, soy beans, maize

22
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How much did they increase?

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2008 cereal prices reached a peak 2.8x their 2000 price, and in July 2010 remained 1.9x this price

23
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What was the rise caused by?

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Growing food demand (esp China and India)
Increased biofuel production
Financial speculations
Adverse climatic conditions in the world’s ‘breadbaskets’

24
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What was the social impact of the global food crisis?

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Drove 44 million people into poverty

Sparked food riots in e.g. Mozambique September 2010

25
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What are the social and environmental drawbacks of ‘land grabbing’

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Limited consultation of local public
No adequate compensation of previous land owners
No opportunities create for new jobs or enhancement of environmental sustainability

26
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What is land grabbing from a neutral perspective?

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Measure by governments/companies used to meet their food/energy requirements by acquiring land in foreign countries

27
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What is land grabbing from a biased perspective?

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21st century form of colonialism which violates human rights which has no consideration of social and and environmental impacts

28
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Examples of nations deemed ‘land grabbers’?

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South Korea and Saudi Arabia

Acquired land in Ethiopia and Madagascar

29
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Where are these deals made?

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In the legal grey areas between traditional land rights and modern forms of property

30
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Where is land grabbing concentrated?

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Africa (40%), in which it is concentrated on large rivers Nile and Senegal

31
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How many people in global indigenous populations?

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2.5 billion

32
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What % of global land do indigenous have customary property rights?

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50%

33
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On how much of this do they act have common property rights?

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10% of this

34
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Which countries are these large corporations targeting and why?

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Those with poor governance in order to maximise profits and minimise red tape

35
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Evidence of this?

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3/4s of 56 countries where land deals were agreed 2000-2011 scored below average on World Bank Governance indicators e.g. control of corruption, rule of law, voice and accountability and regulatory quality

36
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Which Guatemalan policies are aiding and abetting land re-concentration?

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Private individual land tilting

Market let agrarian reform

37
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What has this meant for indigenous land renters?

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Colonos Farmers provide labour/payment for the right to live and farm on the land owned by others
These families were forcibly removed and homes and crops burnt

38
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What has happened to global freshwater withdrawals in last century?

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Increased 7x

39
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What has been deemed the new 21st century enclosures

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Ocean Grabbing

40
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Examples of the purposes of ocean grabbing by big corporations?

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Building of luxury beach hotels in Sri Lanka
Clearing of Ecuadorian mangroves from global shrimp export
Rights Based Fishery policies titling oceans to European and Canadian fishing companies

41
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How are the grabs technically legal?

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They are just hidden inside policy documents, trade agreements, conservation mandates and fishing policies

42
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How many people depend on small scale fishing for subsistence globally?

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Half a billion

43
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What happened in South Africa in 2005?

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Over 90% of 70,000 fishers were denied access to their resources when the government privatised fishing grounds

44
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How is the World Bank complying?

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World Bank and other organisations highlight unsustainability as the reason they are attempting to establish property rights and privatising the oceans?

45
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What should we be doing instead?

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Implementing polices which prioritise small scale local fishers

46
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How can market based mechanisms work to conserve?

A

Allocation of first order property rights

Give legal property rights to groups defending biodiversity, local people or give areas legal standing

47
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Water scarcity situation in Africa?

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1 in 3 endure water scarcity and CC will only make this worse

48
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River in Ethiopia and who relies on it?

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Alwero River - Anuak people

49
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How does the lifestyle of the Anuak people conserve the ecosystem?

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Pastoralists/farmers so they move around according to the seasons which helps to maintain healthy soil fertility

50
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Recent development in the area?

A

New plantation owned up Saudi billionaire is irrigated with water from the Alwero - threatening supply

51
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What is Saudi Arabia’s resource problem?

A

Lack water instead of land to grow food

52
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Another country struggling with water resources and why?

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India (companies e.g. Karuturi global doing the same) due to severely depleted underground aquifers due to decades of unsustainable irrigation

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