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Efforts to restrict foreign ownership of US farmland grow
- AP
- 10 June 2019
As foreign ownership of agriculture land continues to increase, efforts to limit foreign ownership of U.S. farmland have gained traction.
Human rights defenders face reprisals. Here’s what OECD and National Contact Points can do to protect them.
- BHRRC
- 08 June 2019
New research by OECD Watch and BHRRC shows that 64% of reprisals from companies against activists occur in the land-intensive extractive and agriculture sectors.
‘We come from the earth’: Q&A with Goldman Prize winner Alfred Brownell
- Mongabay
- 07 June 2019
The jobs and development promised to rural communities by investors who inked deals with the Liberian government in the late 2000s have failed to materialize in the wake of land disputes and conflicts.
'We don't need them': Russian village rejects Chinese investment
- RFE
- 05 June 2019
Villagers in Krasnaya Gorka in Russia's Chuvashia are protesting the allocation of their lands to a Chinese company for a dairy project.
Feronia's land lease agreements in the DR Congo
- OpenLandContracts
- 05 June 2019
OpenLandContracts has published a set of 223 documents covering Feronia Inc's land lease agreements for its oil palm plantations in the DR Congo.
Ukraine: Assaults against community activists
- CHRD
- 05 June 2019
Local opponents to the EBRD and IFC financed expansion plans of Ukrainian poultry company MHP have suffered from numerous assaults and incidents of intimidation
Cameroon: Elvis Brown Luma Mukuna receives death threats, while his brother is abducted and tortured
- Frontline Defenders
- 04 June 2019
The recent incidents form part of a pattern of threats and intimidation attempts following the publication of an NHCRF report concerning land grabbing and human rights violations in the Northwest region.
Land grabbing and its implications for Sudanese – Views from a scholar
- Pulitzer Center
- 03 June 2019
Investors from largely food-insecure Gulf countries are increasingly buying vast swaths of fertile land irrigated by the Nile River in Sudan to grow food crops to sustain their populations.
Acquisition of a frozen food factory in Russia
- Bonduelle
- 03 June 2019
Bonduelle, a French firm which operates 10,000 hectares of farmland to supply its production facilities, continues its development in Russia with the acquisition of a frozen vegetables plant
Briefing for grass-roots organizations – Bridging the information gap: How access to land contracts can serve community rights
- CCSI
- 31 May 2019
This briefing note explains how local organizations can use land contracts and OpenLandContracts.org to help communities.
Lao authorities allow Chinese firm to plant on land promised to dam collapse survivors
- Radio Free Asia
- 29 May 2019
A Chinese-backed firm is growing bananas on 2,000 hectare of land promised by the government of Laos as compensation to survivors of a 2018 dam collapse.
Liberia: Locals accuse Salala Rubber Company, Liberia Agricultural Company of land grabbing
- Front Page Africa Online
- 29 May 2019
Two major rubber plantation companies are under intense pressure from affected communities to immediately halt further illegal expansion and encroachment of their ancestral lands and withdraw from those illegally occupied areas.