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Edo earmarks 100,000ha of land for oil palm cultivation
- EnviroNews
- 21 August 2020
The Edo State Government of Nigeria has set out 100,000 hectares of land for oil palm cultivation by investors.
Record breaking year for Brazil soy exports drives deforestation and land insecurity in the Cerrado Biome
- CRR
- 19 August 2020
As demand for Brazilian soy soars, agribusinesses and farmland developers are seizing the opportunity to expand in the biodiverse Cerrado biome in western Bahia, Brazil.
Smit Tit v. Mitr Phol: Ensuring access to remedies against land grabbing by transnational corporations
- Global Policy
- 19 August 2020
An analysis of the global impact of a Thai court judgement, which provides a judicial forum to farmers from Cambodia, who were victims of transnational land grabbing.
Indonesia pushes rice estate project despite environmental red flags
- Mongabay
- 17 August 2020
The Indonesian government is pushing ahead with a plan to grow crops on a Puerto Rico-sized area of peatlands, despite criticism from experts and a history of similar failed projects.
Land privatization: Why Sri Lanka must reject the MCC compact
- Oakland Institute
- 17 August 2020
In Sri Lanka, where the state formally owns an estimated 85 percent of the country’s 6.6 million hectares of land, there is legitimate concern that the proposed US-funded project, the MCC compact would shift control of these lands towards private interests.
Harvard-controlled LLC in $120+ million deal with anonymous LLC connected with Canadian pension fund.
- WII
- 14 August 2020
Two Harvard-controlled LLCs have deeded over 7,104.74 acres of land in northern San Luis Obispo County, California for an estimated $120.14 million (based upon $132,159 paid in county real estate transfer taxes.)
Farmers walk from N. Sumatra to Jakarta to demand Jokowi settle land dispute
- Jakarta Post
- 11 August 2020
Some 170 farmers have walked 1,812 kilometers from their hometown in North Sumatra, Indonesia to the capital city to demand to the President to settle a land dispute with state-owned plantation company that evicted them from their farmland.
Land dispute settlements signed in Mondulkiri between indigenous communities and Socfin Cambodia
- MRLG
- 10 August 2020
On 10 August 2020 indigenous communities from Busra commune in Cambodia signed an agreement with the rubber company Socfin Cambodia to settle a long-lasting dispute about their communal and spiritual lands.
Why I stand for my tribe’s forest: It gives us food, culture, and life (commentary)
- Mongabay
- 08 August 2020
On the occasion of International Indigenous Peoples Day August 9, Arkilaus Kladit, a member of the Knasaimos-Tehit people in West Papua Province, Indonesia, writes about the importance of his tribe’s customary forests and the fight to protect it from logging and palm oil.
Probe begins into alleged deforestation by Olam, ‘world’s largest farmer’
- Mongabay
- 07 August 2020
An investigation is carried out into whether Singapore-based agribusiness giant Olam deforested more than 25,000 hectares (62,000 acres), in contravention of sustainability criteria it had signed up to, in order to develop oil palm plantations in Gabon.
Land ownership questioned
- Western Producer
- 06 August 2020
Canadian alternative asset value expert argues that farmers should stop thinking they need to own their land as this is better left to asset managers and institutional investors, like pension funds and private equity groups
Cambodians, activists cheer Thai court’s move to allow lawsuit against Asia’s largest sugar firm
- SCMP
- 06 August 2020
A Bangkok court ruled that about 3,000 Cambodians could proceed with a class-action suit against Mitr Phol, the world’s fourth-largest sugar producer. Farmers in Oddar Meanchey province are seeking compensation after the Cambodian government allocated land to the company for sugar plantations.