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Fertile Ground for Land Grab in China as Local Middlemen and Global Paper Company Flout Farmers’ Land Rights

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WASHINGTON, DC/BEIJING, CHINA (7-8 October 2010)—A new study released today in Washington, DC and Beijing suggests that one of the world‟s largest and “greenest” paper companies, in concert with local officials and other middlemen, used illegal means to gain control over thousands of hectares of Chinese forestlands, with a goal of acquiring 120 thousand hectares for a eucalyptus plantation in the Guangxi Autonomous Region of southern China.

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Release Date:	October 2010
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