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W. Anseeuw et al., "Transnational Land Deals for Agriculture in the Global South. a.n.a.lytical Report Based on the Land Matrix Database," CDE/CIRAD/GIGA, 2012.
422 people have claimed they were unjustly evicted
Ibid.
423 concerning difficulties in financing the projects
International Land Coalition, "Land Rights and the Rush for Land Report," 2011.
424 will rely entirely on wheat imports by 2016
"Saudi Arabia Launches Tender to Buy 550,000 Tons of Wheat," Saudi Gazette, August 30, 2012.
425 water from a deep nonrenewable aquifer
Brown, "This Will Be the Arab World's Next Battle."
426 80 to 85 percent of that water comes from underground aquifers
Reem Shamseddine and Barbara Lewis, "Saudi Arabia's Water Needs Eating into Oil Wealth," Reuters, September 9, 2011; Brown, Plan B 4.0.
427 will eventually involve desalination of seawater
Shamseddine and Lewis, "Saudi Arabia's Water Needs Eating into Oil Wealth."
428 locked up in the ice and snow of Antarctica and Greenland
Howard Perlman, U.S. Geological Survey, "Where Is Earth's Water Located?," September 7, 2012, http://ga.water.usgs.gov/edu/earthwherewater.html.
429 even energy-rich Saudi Arabia cannot afford it
Caline Malek, "Solar Desalination 'the Only Way' for Gulf to Sustainably Produce Water," National, April 24, 2012, http://www.thenational.ae/news/uae-news/solar-desalination-the-only-way-for-gulf-to-sustainably-produce-water.
430 purchase the use of water-rich land in Africa
John Vidal, "What Does the Arab World Do When Its Water Runs Out?," Guardian, February 19, 2011.
431 many desalination plants in the world-including in Saudi Arabia
"Saudi Arabia and Desalinisation," Harvard International Review, December 23, 2010, http://hir.harvard.edu/pressing-change/saudi-arabia-and-desalination-0.
432 towing them to areas experiencing severe droughts
Bob Yirka, "Simulation Shows It's Possible to Tow an Iceberg to Drought Areas," PhysOrg, August 9, 2011, http://phys.org/news/2011-08-simulation-iceberg-drought-areas.html.
433 could supply 500,000 people with freshwater for a year
Ibid.
434 supplied with ample amounts of water, nutrients, and sunlight
"Does It Really Stack Up?," Economist, December 9, 2010, http://www.economist.com/node/17647627.
435 rely on fish for approximately 15 percent
United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, "The State of Fisheries and Aquaculture," 2012, p. 5, http://www.fao.org/docrep/016/i2727e/i2727e00.htm.
436 from twenty-two pounds per person per year to almost thirty-eight pounds
Bryan Walsh, "The End of the Line," Time, July 7, 2011.
437 one third of fish stocks in the oceans
Ibid.
438 reduced by 90 percent since the 1960s
