Sime Darby's Africa ambitions stall pending new deforestation rules
      Sime Darby Plantation has planted only 10,000 hectares in Liberia and has not laid a seed in two years, stalled by uncertainties over new environmental standards.
      • Reuters
      • 19 February 2018
      Human Rights defenders from all over the world visit EU to call for strong measures against
      Fourteen indigenous leaders and human rights defenders from forest countries called upon Dutch policy makers to take action against human rights abuses, land grabbing and deforestation in relation to large scale agriculture, timber logging and mining
      • Both Ends
      • 19 February 2018
      The big sell-out - land deals in Peru
      In the province of Ucayali in Peru, international investors have snapped up huge tracts of land for oil palm plantations using dubious methods that leave local farmers destitute.
      • DW
      • 19 February 2018
      36 Uganda farmers paid in Bidco project dispute
      Payoff follows mediation by the dispute resolution office of the World Bank’s IFC but of the 36 farmers who were compensated, eight later rejected the deal and are expected to take their case to court this month
      • Daily Nation
      • 13 February 2018
      Why France dropped out of the New Alliance for food security
      The initiative launched in 2012 to support African agriculture is accused of favouring multinationals and land grabbing.
      • Le Monde
      • 12 February 2018
      UN human rights chief laments PNG land grab problem
      The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights has noted persistent problems with land grabs in Papua New Guinea.
      • Radio NZ
      • 12 February 2018
      Closing the gap
      FPP and partners launch new report and web portal for rights-based approaches and community solutions to tackling deforestation and ensuring supply chain accountability
      • FPP
      • 12 February 2018
      Mozambique's farmers battle to keep land in Nakarari
      "No to ProSavana has been one of Mozambique's most successful civil society campaigns, proving that an alliance of local groups and international NGOs can change policy"
      • Al Jazeera
      • 12 February 2018
      France withdraws from NAFSN: agribusiness is not the cure for hunger!
      Action Against Hunger, CCFD-Terre Solidaire and Oxfam France welcome the French government's decision to withdraw from the widely denounced New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition (NAFSN)
      • ACF
      • 09 February 2018
      Is sustainable palm oil possible?
      Video of the mostly English-language session of a CFDT seminar featuring Dario Novellino and indigenous community representatives of the Coalition Against Land Grabbing operating in Palawan, the Philippines.
      • CFDT
      • 08 February 2018
      The Salim Group and land conflicts around West Papua
      In May 2016, awasMIFEE published a story titled “The Salim Group’s secret plantations in West Papua”, about four concessions owned by the Salim Group in West Papua. A year and a half later, Salim Group is still aggressively expanding, and threatening more areas of remote Papuan forest.
      • AwasMIFEE
      • 07 February 2018
      NGOs call for tougher rules to block environmentally damaging investments
      The EU must urgently develop new financial regulations to stop investors backing projects that result in harmful consequences such as land-grabbing, human rights violations or higher greenhouse gas emissions, according to a group of leading NGOs.
      • BusinessGreen
      • 07 February 2018

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