Violent corporate land grabbing is driven by logging corporations operating with little oversight in some of the world’s largest rainforests, all with the direct complicity of many politicians.
- Free City Radio
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01 December 2013
Papua New Guinea is the latest known victim in a modern era of land grabs orchestrated by foreign corporations according to an investigative report and a film.
- Oakland Institute
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19 November 2013
Anuradha Mittal of the Oakland Institute speaks abouthow farmers in Ethiopia are being pushed off their land to make way for multinational agribusiness.
- Redeye Collective
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21 October 2013
World bank rekindles assumptions that land registration would give farmers access to low-cost credit, improve yields, and that Africa has abundant “surplus land” which should be delineated and identified in order to be acquired by land developers.
- Oakland Institute
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23 September 2013
The embattled Herakles Farms palm oil plantation project in Cameroon appears to have now gone off the rails
- Oakland Institute
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18 September 2013
Two new reports from the Oakland Institute show how Western development assistance is supporting forced evictions and massive violations of human rights in Ethiopia.
- Oakland Institute
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17 July 2013
Company documents provided to the Oakland Institute contain evidence that Herakles Farms is misleading investors, local communities, the Cameroonian government, and the general public.
- Oakland Institute
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22 May 2013
This historic divestment marks the first full divestment made by Vanderbilt in response to student pressure
- Oakland Institute
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13 February 2013
Le Oakland Institute, un think-tank américain respecté pour la qualité de ses travaux, épingle les pratiques de la Socfin, une filiale du groupe Bolloré en Sierra Leone.
A day-long conference will be held on Feb. 6, 2013 at the India International Centre, New Delhi to deliberate on the ongoing land takeover in India and in African countries like Ethiopia by Indian companies.
- Oakland Institute
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23 January 2013
New report from Oakland Institute looks at private equity funds betting heavily on agriculture
- Oakland Institute
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04 December 2012
Send a message to Herakles Farms and All for Africa demanding they stop destroying tropical rainforest and local livelihoods and ask the Government of Cameroon to listen to the voices of the Cameroonian people.
- Oakland Institute
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21 November 2012