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Closing the gap
- FPP
- 12 February 2018
FPP and partners launch new report and web portal for rights-based approaches and community solutions to tackling deforestation and ensuring supply chain accountability
Mozambique's farmers battle to keep land in Nakarari
- Al Jazeera
- 12 February 2018
"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"
France withdraws from NAFSN: agribusiness is not the cure for hunger!
- ACF
- 09 February 2018
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)
Is sustainable palm oil possible?
- CFDT
- 08 February 2018
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.
The Salim Group and land conflicts around West Papua
- AwasMIFEE
- 07 February 2018
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.
NGOs call for tougher rules to block environmentally damaging investments
- BusinessGreen
- 07 February 2018
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.
Ethiopia: Farmland grabbing is back to Oromia
- Kichuu
- 07 February 2018
The Oromia Regional Investment Commissiona says 167 total investment projects were approved in the last six months requiring the provision of 4600 hectares of land.
Coalition decries intensifying attacks against peasants struggling for land
- APC
- 06 February 2018
Asian Peasant Coalition (APC), decried the intensifying attacks against peasants struggling for land. Peasants asserting their rights to the land are subjected to human rights abuses, agrarian struggles and peasant leaders are being criminalized, imprisoned, and worse, were massacred.
Cambodia killings show rising risk to Southeast Asian land defenders
- Reuters
- 06 February 2018
Last week's killing of Cambodian forest defenders, and the recent shooting of Indonesian farmers, show the increasing involvement of state forces in quelling dissent against agribusiness, campaigners said.
AfDB supports proposal to lease land for food supply to India
- SME Times
- 05 February 2018
A $5 billion Exim Bank of India fund to support Africa's agriculture development through the "Feed Africa" project seems to fit into the Africa Development Bank's plans to improve the agriculture sector
Dubai's Al Khaleej in $1 bln Egypt beet sugar mill deal
- Reuters
- 05 February 2018
A group of companies controlled by one of Dubai’s richest families has signed a deal for a $1 billion dollar investment in a 77,000 sugar beet and grains farms in Minya, Egypt.
APC condemns Heng Fu's land grabbing in Cambodia
- APC
- 05 February 2018
Asian Peasant Coalition strongly condemns the repression and land grabbing carried out by the Chinese company Hengfu Group Sugar Industry Co., Ltd. against the indigenous Kuy people of Preah Vihear, Cambodia.