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Mozambique won’t be Mato Grosso
- Monde Diplomatique
- 11 June 2018
A popular movement centred on a small farming village in northern Mozambique has, for the moment, halted an attempt to move to cash-crop monocultures mainly for export.
ERA/FoEN’s RSPO certification claims spurious, libelous—Okomu Oil
- Business Post
- 09 June 2018
The management of Okomu Oil Palm Company Plc has reacted to an allegation made against it by ERA/FoEN, alleging that the company had been “parading” a Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil certificate.
The great Polish land grab
- ARC 2020
- 08 June 2018
Land prices have increased dramatically and despite a moratorium on foreign land purchasing, foreign entities have found a way to buy land. Polish farmers are despairing and protesting en masse.
Karuturi workers accuse CFC Stanbic Bank for the malpractice
- Kenyan WallSt
- 06 June 2018
The employees accuse CFC Stanbic of demanding more money than it lent to Karuturi, saying the South African lender is responsible for the poverty that struck their families since Karuturi was placed under receivership, 3 years ago.
Campaign reiterates opposition to ProSavana in Mozambique
- No to ProSavana
- 06 June 2018
The peasant men and women who are members of the No to ProSavana Campaign maintain our opposition to this program and the way it has been imposed on us
Stop parading RSPO certificate, ERA charges Okomu Oil
- The Sun
- 06 June 2018
Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth charged the Okomu Oil Plc to stop parading the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) certificate as it has not met its requirement.
Failed farmland deals: a growing legacy of disaster and pain
- GRAIN
- 06 June 2018
2017 went down as one of the deadliest years ever for land defenders. It was also a pretty bad year for several land grabbers.
The ripple effect caused by closure of Sher Karuturi Flower Farm
- KBC
- 05 June 2018
The lives of more than 3,000 people came to a standstill when the Karuturi flower farm shut its doors in May 2015 after being placed under receivership over accrued debt.
Occupation of Bolloré's vineyards: land to men and women farmers!
- Confédération paysanne
- 05 June 2018
Seventy farmers of the Confédération paysanne came from all over France to occupy the "La Croix Valmer" vineyard of Vincent Bolloré in the Var to denounce land grabbing and the financialisation of farmland
Baguettes In Beijing? Chinese investors eating up French farm land
- Le Figaro
- 05 June 2018
A Chinese company recently bought nearly 1,000 hectares of French farmland. Pourquoi? "To put French cereals on Chinese tables," its owner says.
Tracking the battles for environmental justice: here are the world’s top 10
- The Conversation
- 05 June 2018
As more communities are refusing to allow the destruction and contamination of their land, water, soil and air, these struggles deserve to be counted.
Rural poor squeezed by land concessions in Mekong region: report
- Reuters
- 04 June 2018
Companies acquired concessions amounting to the size of a small European country, while rural residents of Southeast Asia’s Mekong region saw their landholdings shrink or disappear over the past two decades