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RCEP trade deal will intensify land grabbing in Asia
- GRAIN
- 15 July 2019
RCEP will not just change rules on the export and import of goods and services; it will change how governments decide on rights to land and who has access to it.
An assessment of land deals undertaken by the National Oil Palm Project in Kalangala and Buvuma districts
- Tropenbos
- 14 July 2019
This policy brief summarizes detailed research on land conflicts in Uganda's Kalangala and Buvuma islands and recommends steps to the main players to avert them.
Brazil: Amazon state's new law enables land thieves, critics say
- Al Jazeera
- 10 July 2019
Environmental groups argue law sanctioned by Para state governor will benefit land grabbers.
Cameroon's palm oil of discontent
- France 24
- 08 July 2019
In May, the Bolloré group was summoned to court in France after ten NGOs filed a lawsuit against it
Two groups of Cambodian villagers protest over land disputes
- Radio Free Asia
- 08 July 2019
Villagers embroiled in two separate land disputes in Cambodia’s Koh Kong province protested Monday, demanding solutions for their respective cases, one against a home-grown tycoon, the other against a Chinese developer.
Sierra Leone: Goldtree merges with Natural Habitats Europe Africa
- Michel Mores
- 08 July 2019
Finnfund and the DFI-backed African Agricultural Fund assume majority control of the Sierre Leone oil palm plantations and concessions of Goldtree Holdings and Natural Habitats.
TIAA’s “sustainability reports” can’t paper over the impacts of land grabbing
- ActionAid USA
- 08 July 2019
By buying up US farmland and leasing it to large-scale farm machinery operators, TIAA is closing the door on policies that could revive the more diversified farming that used to underlie healthy local economies.
Liberia: Report implicates gov’t officials in massive land grabs
- Liberian Observer
- 08 July 2019
The impoverished state of Bomi County is likely to worsen as many subsistent farmers are at the verge of losing their residential and farm lands to elites, who have since begun land-grabbing spree in the county
Des ONG portent plainte aux Pays-Bas contre ING pour son soutien à l'huile de palme
- Belga
- 08 July 2019
Des ONG ont déposé plainte contre la banque néerlandaise ING auprès du point de contact des Pays-Bas de l'OCDE, réclamant que le groupe cesse d'investir dans des entreprises de production d'huile de palme qu'elles accusent d'être associées à un accaparement des terres
Land projects under MCC - Will ensure tenure security and tradability
- Daily Mirror
- 06 July 2019
The land projects envisaged in the agreement to receive US$480 million grant from the Millennium Challenge Corporation of the United States will enhance tenure security and tradability of land for smallholders, women, and firms.
Friends of the Earth groups and supporters file OECD complaint against ING for financing palm oil abuses
- Milieudefense
- 05 July 2019
NGOs have filed a complaint at the OECD against the Dutch bank ING Group regarding its financing of oil palm companies involved in deforestation (Noble Group), land grabbing (Bolloré Group/Socfin) and child labor (Wilmar International).
Cambodian villagers to appeal Thai court's rejection of suit against sugar giant
- Reuters
- 05 July 2019
Cambodian villagers will appeal a Thai court decision rejecting their class action lawsuit against Thailand's biggest sugar producer, Mitr Phol. The class action lawsuit, filed in April last year on behalf of more than 3,000 Cambodian plaintiffs, accused the Thai sugar giant violently displacing them to make way for plantations.