204. Calls for concerted EU action to address the problem of land-grabbing through the promotion of adequate safeguards to prevent it in the countries concerned and among EU and other European companies present in those countries; notes that the denial of access to land and natural resources to the rural and urban poor is one of the key causes of hunger and poverty in the world, thereby having an impact on the local communities’ enjoyment of their human rights, and particularly on their right to adequate food; calls for an assessment of the impact of EU trade policy on land-grabbing; welcomes the EU’s involvement in the development of the global Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of ...[+++]Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests in the Context of National Food Security, adopted under the aegis of the UN, and calls for their implementation and for the adoption of binding guidelines for preventing land-grabbing; emphasises, nevertheless, the urgent need to mainstream human rights and poverty reduction considerations in decision-making regarding the acquisition or long-term lease of large areas of land by investors; considers the EU’s response to this issue to be an important test of its commitment to moving toward a rights-based approach in its development cooperation policy, as envisioned in the Lisbon Treaty and through which the EU's development policy would further contribute to the sustainable economic, social and environmental development of developing countries, with the primary aim of eradicating poverty in the world; calls for the EU to commit, in line with the recommendations of the UN Special Rapporteur on the right to food, to a fundamental shift towards agro-ecology as a means of guaranteeing the right to food;

9c". direct land-use change" means any change in the use of a piece of land from one to another of the six IPCC land cover categories (forest land, cropland, grazing land, wetlands, settlements, other land) plus a seventh category for perennial crops, covering in particular multiannual crops whose stem is usually not annually harvested, such as short-rotation coppice and palm oil.

This land, which we call the ‘blessed land’, the land of Al-Sham, which includes Lebanon, Palestine, Syria, Jordan and Israel, this land which has encompassed all the cultures of heaven: in our land, the Prophet Abraham walked, and the Prophet Moses lived happily there, and in our land Jesus (may God’s blessings be upon him) was born, and from our land he was lifted to the heavens.

An individual is eligible for the enrolment as a founding member of the band if the individual is of Canadian Indian ancestry; was a member of the Newfoundland Mi'kmaq community or a descendant of such a person; self-identified as a Mi'kmaq on the date of recognition order; and is accepted as a member of the Mi'kmaq group of Indians of Newfoundland.

In 1989 the Federation of Newfoundland Indians brought an action in Federal Court seeking legal recognition for the Mi'kmaq people in Newfoundland and a declaration that Canada was discriminating against the Mi'kmaq people of Newfoundland.

The four criteria for founding membership eligibility are as follows: Canadian Indian ancestry; membership or descent from a member of a pre-Confederation Mi'kmaq community; self-identification as a member of the Mi'kmaq group of Indians of Newfoundland; and acceptance by the M'ikmaq group of Indians of Newfoundland, based on a demonstrated and substantial cultural connection.