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'I tended to the bodies': attacked by the Philippine army
- Guardian
- 23 July 2018
Villagers in a southern Philippine island of Mindanao massacred amid conflict between indigenous community and coffee plantation
Middle eastern investment in Africa: A means to improve gulf food security?
- Future Directions
- 19 July 2018
Food security of the Gulf states is heavily dependent on foreign imports. Europe and the Americas have been the traditional markets supplying food to them, but recent development of African Continental Free Trade Area may encourage Gulf investors to embrace potential opportunities in Africa.
As indigenous peoples wait decades for land titles, companies are acquiring their territories
- WRI
- 17 July 2018
Governments should recognize indigenous and community land rights, engage in better monitoring of company misconduct during land acquisitions, and ensure that businesses secure the free, prior and informed consent of the people who live on the land before they begin operations.
Dutch company indicates interest in building cattle ranches in Nigeria
- 17 July 2018
Cownexxion indicates its interest in building cattle ranches in Nigeria on sidelines of meeting between NIgeria's President and CEOs of Dutch companies at The Hague.
Reckoning with human rights violations in Thailand's extraterritorial investments
- The Diplomat
- 17 July 2018
Thai investments in ASEAN have intensified at a breakneck pace. But without mechanisms to ensure compliance with international human rights standards, they have resulted in land conflicts and a wide array of human rights infringements.
One Tree Agriculture lists Kinbeachie aggregation at Toobeah
- Grain Central
- 17 July 2018
One Tree Agriculture is owned by private equity fund manager, Proterra Investment Partners, which was spun off in 2016 as an investment advisory and private equity fund manager by Cargill’s Black River Asset Management.
Myanmar must provide justice in decades-old land grab cases: HRW
- Radio Free Asia
- 17 July 2018
Myanmar should move quickly to settle decades-old claims by farmers forced from their land by the country’s military, said Human Rights Watch in new report,adding that the government should also put new laws in place to protect farmers and other small landholders from further land grabs in the future.
The Rural Women’s Movement held a feminist school, mobilizes collective power to demand climate justice
- NAPE
- 16 July 2018
During the first ever feminist school in Uganda, the Rural Women’s Movement underlined that land is central to people’s identity, livelihoods and food security.
Submission to the Universal Periodic Review of Cambodia - Land Grabbing
- Human Rights Watch
- 13 July 2018
Human Rights Watch submission to the Universial Periodic Review of Cambodia, assessment since Cambodia’s previous UPR in 2014 in various sector including land grabbing.
Farm land deals in Romania to remain on increasing trend
- Business Review
- 12 July 2018
Authorities are trying to harden the conditions for foreign land purchases after a study by the European Parliament found that around 40 percent of the Romanian agricultural land is owned by foreign citizens.
EU delegates briefed on sugar land disputes in Cambodia
- Khmer Times
- 12 July 2018
EU delegation is in Cambodia on fact-finding mission to evaluated the issue of displaced peoples locked in land disputes with several sugar companies across the country particularly in Koh Kong, Preah Vihear and Oddar Meanchey provinces.
Nasako Besingi: Freedom to protect the environment 2018
- Oslo Freedom Forum
- 11 July 2018
In his talk, Environmentalist Nasako Besingi shares how he has faced governmental censorship, imprisonment, and even death threats for his work defending community lands and forests in southern Cameroon.