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Cambodian farmers take Thai sugar giant to court
- Al Jazeera
- 12 June 2019
Two Cambodian sugar farmers are bringing a case against Thai firm Mitr Phol claiming its subsidiary illegally cleared their land.
Cambodian farmers battle in landmark lawsuit against Thai sugar firm
- TRF
- 12 June 2019
The lawsuit against Asia’s largest sugar producer, Mitr Phol, filed on behalf of about 3,000 people, is the first class-action lawsuit filed in a Thai court by plaintiffs from another country against a Thai company operating outside Thailand.
The nature of social justice advocacy and local resistance to land concessions in Liberia
- Front Page Africa
- 11 June 2019
The sustained advocacy by communities affected by large land deals and civil society for change to the policies and laws governing land administration have resulted in departures from the historical norms on land rights and tenure security.
Investments in farmland in numbers
- https://www.dw.com/en/investments-in-farmland-in-numbers/av-49045592
- 10 June 2019
Investors and foreign states are buying up farmland in many parts of the world. Land is often considered a relatively safe investment, and everybody needs food.
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.