US court orders Coca-Cola Company to turn over evidence related to ongoing class action lawsuit against Mitr Phol in Thai courts over allegations of forced eviction
- Business & Human Rights
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24 January 2022
Land is spiritual, land is ideological, and we cannot afford to give it away for the economic benefits of the investor, argues Professor Sam Lwanga Lunyiigo
A company owned by the Canadian Public Sector Pension Investment Board has maintained a single-minded focus on controlling East Maui water since it bought 41,000 acres of ag land in November 2018.
- Politics on Maui
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20 January 2022
We can no longer afford to pour billions in public money into projects that exacerbate debt, inequalities, poverty and climate change
- OpenDemocracy
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19 January 2022
Cambodia's Minister of Agriculture hosts meeting on agricultural cooperation with a Chinese company identified only as “Hualong”.
- Phnom Penh Post
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18 January 2022
A Ghanaian-owned agribusiness has acquired a 356 hectare irrigated commercial farm developed by AgDevCo.
- Food Business Africa
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17 January 2022
Some 145 Cameroonians have been dismissed Friday by the French courts as they sought to force the Bolloré group to provide documents they hoped would show its links with a Cameroonian company that they accuse of violating their rights.
Finlays, a subsidiary of the UK Swire Group, is selling its 30 Sri Lankan tea plantations to Brown Investments, which already controls 12,000 ha of tea farms in the country
- Food Business Africa
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07 January 2022
The government in February last year planned to evict 12,000 villagers after it set aside 12 940 hectares of communal land in their area for lucerne project by Dendairy.
- New Zimbabwe
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07 January 2022
More than 2,000 mining, plantation and forest-use permits have been revoked by Indonesian government due to non-compliance or because they had been unused, tightening oversight of the nation's natural resources.
The pandemic-fueled land rush has brought wealthier buyers to rural areas, making land even harder to access—a crisis that has become especially acute in the Northeast of the US.
- Civil Eats
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06 January 2022
With farms, ranches and rural communities facing unprecedented threats, a worrying trend leads to a critical question: Who owns the water?
- The Counter
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04 January 2022