Traduction de «Stratégie de la terre brûlée » (Français → Anglais) :

The federal government has adopted an expensive, two-pronged legal strategy.it conducts a scorched earth legal strategy that drags out cases and starves First Nations organizations of funds.Sitting down for honest negotiations is simply not a part of the government's strategy.

Observes that agricultural investment policies mostly focus on large-scale land acquisitions and on export-oriented agriculture that is usually unrelated to local economies; notes that the development of extensive irrigation in the targeted geographical investment areas of NAFSN may reduce water availability for other users, such as small-scale farmers or pastoralists; stresses that under those circumstances the ability of mega-PPPs to contribute to poverty reduction and food security must be critically assessed and improved; emphasises that agricultural investment policies should be linked to and should support the development of the local economy, including smallholders and family farming; recalls that the FAO ...[+++]Tenure Guidelines recommend secure access to land in order to allow families to produce food for household consumption and to increase household income; stresses the need to base large-scale land-based investment in Africa on these guidelines, ensuring smallholders’ and local communities’ access to land, promoting local SME investment. and ensuring that PPPs contribute to food security and to reducing poverty and inequality.

The “scorched earth” litigation culture of the federal government in First Nations litigation can and must be changed.

- Strategies for sustainable land management, including coastal zones, agricultural land and forests: The objective is to contribute to the development of strategies and tools for sustainable use of land, with emphasis on the coastal zones, agricultural lands and forests, including integrated concepts for the multipurpose utilisation of agricultural and forest resources, and the integrated forestry/wood chain in order to ensure sustainable development at economic, social, and at environmental levels; qualitative and quantitative aspects of multifunctionality of agriculture and forestry will be addressed.

Research will focus on: impact of climate change on the components of the hydrological cycle - land/ocean/atmosphere interactions, groundwater/surface water distribution, freshwater and wetland ecosystems, soil functioning and water quality; assessment of vulnerability of water/soil systems to global change; management strategies, their impacts and mitigation technologies; scenarios of water demand and availability.

Where I get frustrated, and I'll be honest with you, is that I think they might be better served looking for positive strategies than a scorched earth policy of trying to bring down the mergers instead of pursuing strategies that I think would be in the interests of their institutions.