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Bolloré group sued by NGOs in an unprecedented legal action
- GRAIN et al.
- 27 May 2019
Palm oil in Cameroon: French courts must order the group to respect its commitments for residents and workers of the Socapalm plantations.
Hungary can't curb farm sales to EU foreigners, top court says
- Bloomberg
- 21 May 2019
Hungarian restrictions on farmland investors from other European Union nations violate basic rights enshrined in EU law, the bloc’s top court said.
Five from China charged over illegal banana plantation in Myanmar protected forest
- Radio Free Asia
- 20 May 2019
China-backed banana tissue-culture plantations, banned in Laos and Thailand, began popping up in Myanmar about 12 years ago. A report issued earlier this year by Land Security and Environmental Conservation Network indicated that that there are more than 100,000 acres of banana plantations in Kachin state.
Lao villager dies after 8 years in jail over land grab protest
- Radio Free Asia
- 20 May 2019
A Lao villager held in jail since 2011 as a leader of a land protest in the country’s Salavan province has died in custody. The seizure of land for development or agricultural use has been a major cause of protest in Laos and other authoritarian Asian countries
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- RISE Moldova
- 19 May 2019
While the Law on how to sell and buy agricultural land prohibits foreigners from buying land in Moldova, then the Land Code does not provide such restrictions.
Harvard selling large scale cropping farms
- Farm Weekly
- 18 May 2019
Harvard University has listed its large scale cropping aggregation at Hillston, New South Wales, Australia for sale
Reply by the Traditional Council of Okomu Kingdom to the Okomu Oil Palm Company, a subsidiary of SOCFIN.
- Okomu Kingdom
- 17 May 2019
In a letter addressed to SOCFIN's Nigerian subsidiary, Okomu Oil Palm, the Traditional Council of Okomu Kingdom tells the company it will enforce its rightful ownership of the lands that the company currently occupies.
How Egypt’s water feeds the Gulf
- Mada Masr
- 16 May 2019
Gulf agribusiness companies found their panacea in Egypt, which is prioritizing investment in large-scale, modernized farming to export crops over pursuing strategic crop cultivation and traditional farming methods in the Nile Valley and Delta.
Spain’s El Ciruelo acquires leading Brazilian table grape producer
- Fresh Fruit Portal
- 14 May 2019
Spain-based El Ciruelo has reached an agreement with Grupo JD to acquire its subsidiary Labrunier, the largest Brazilian table grape producer, with 2,400 hectares of land in Brazil.
Radical proposals to save Kenya’s ailing agriculture
- Nation
- 14 May 2019
One of the key proposals is the establishment of 50 new large-scale farms of 2,500 acres or more that will be funded, owned and operated by the private sector, in a plan aimed at unlocking up to 500,000 acres.
Harvard’s investment in land and natural resources
- Harvard Crimson
- 14 May 2019
Harvard University has been grabbing lands from indigenous communities, cutting down forests, and depriving rural people of access to water around the world for years.
UN Resolution on the Decade of Family Farming in Japanese　（国連決議文＜日本語訳＞：家族農業の10年）
- 14 May 2019
国連で採択された家族農業の１０年の日本語仮訳のPDFを掲載します。