Observers and activists have raised concerns about the leading role the Indonesian government plans to give to the military and to big corporations in a program to establish vast crop plantations across the country.
Australia’s largest dairy operation, Tasmania’s historic Van Diemen’s Land Company, is reportedly on the verge of being offloaded by its Chinese businessman owner Xianfeng Lu.
- Beef Central
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28 October 2020
Broadcast with Joseph Rahall, Shiaka Sama and Frédéric Mousseau that looks at the struggle over land around Socfin's 18,500 ha oil palm concession in Sierra Leone.
- A Growing Culture
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24 October 2020
SOCFIN's operations in Sierra Leone is one of 5 cases documented by Friend of the Earth Europe to highlight the lack of accountability of European multinationals
Georeferencing — a digital mapping technique employed by South American governments to register land ownership — is being regularly used by landgrabbers and companies to expel traditional communities from ancestral lands.
Amandla talks to Jeff Wokulira Sebagala of Witness Radio, Uganda, one of the organizations that recently authored the report “land grabs at gunpoint.”
Nicaragua has ramped up export production to the US amid the pandemic. But this has come at a high cost for Indigenous communities, who are being run off their land to make way for cattle ranches.
The prosecution alleges that the eight land defenders threatened to harm a police officer and workers of one of the companies involved in large-scale land grabs for agricultural plantations in Kiryandongo, Uganda.
- Witness Radio
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19 October 2020
a number of Chinese firms have invested in large-scale crop and livestock production in Zambia and the agronomist would like to see more Chinese investments in agriculture exports.
The Matopiba region is home to the majority of the Cerrado’s remaining vegetation, and, conversely, among the highest deforestation and fire rates in Brazil.
Seventy-nine Kenyans have launched a legal claim in the High Court in London against Camellia Plc (and other UK companies in the Camellia Group) for alleged human rights abuses at its Kenyan plantations.
- Leigh Day
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11 October 2020
The $56.5 billion Harvard University Endowment Fund is preparing to sell another chunk of its Australian almond and cotton holdings after putting the Western Rosella Farming portfolio in the NSW Riverina on the market.