Land grabbing provokes many governance challenges, which generate new social arrangements. We particularly explore how the collaborations between the provincial government of Santiago del Estero and non-government organizations (NGOs) in Argentina played out.
South Africa based Promasidor Holdings and Ekiti State will jointly pursue the rehabilitation and expansion of the Ikun Dairy Farm, which spans across 1,000 hectares in the Moba Local Government Area.
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30 July 2019
Global Witness report finds that more than three people were murdered each week in 2018, with countless more criminalised, for defending their land and our environment.
- Global Witness
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30 July 2019
Killing of Joël Imbangola Lunea allegedly linked to ongoing unrest between local communities and Canadian palm oil giant Feronia-PHC.
Villagers in Northern Nigeria struggle against a land grab by the Chinese company, Lee Group, for a massive sugar cane plantation project.
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29 July 2019
The Chinese company DELMOR and international financial institutions are investing $100 million in a 10,775 ha cattle complex in Zamin and Zarbdar districts of the Jizzakh region.
A member of the Congolese organisation RIAO-RDC was brutally killed by a security guard of the Canadian palm oil company Feronia Inc near the company’s Boteka plantations.
Foreign ownership of Australian farmland is "overstated" when measured on a dollar-value basis, according to a new report by agribusiness lender Rabobank.
Craigmore Sustainables, a New Zealand-owned company that draws its funds from overseas, with over 50 per cent now coming from Germany, is going to convert 137ha of Northland dairy country to kiwifruit production.
Livestock Wealth started with 26 cows in 2015 and currently manages a herd of around 2000 cattle at four farms across South Africa on behalf of 800 investors from South Africa, Germany, the US, Canada, the UK and China.
Italian company that built a 7,000 ha maize plantation is now behind a dam project that would submerge several villages, forcing hundreds or thousands of people out of their ancestral homes.
The discussion will address the role of traditional leaders in customary land administration, forced evictions as a form of land corruption and its impact on women's land rights and an analysis of alternative dispute resolution systems in addressing land corruption.