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PHI Group to partner with Maxagro Group of Romania
- Globe Newswire
- 19 April 2017
Maxagro and PHI Group will consider raising capital for Maxagro to acquire additional farmland by taking Maxagro public in the U.S. and European Stock Markets.
Deforestation has become big business in the Brazilian Amazon
- Mongabay
- 18 April 2017
Large-scale land thieves are seizing, deforesting then selling public lands. At the same time, Brasilia is defunding enforcement, with rainforests and landless peasants the losers.
Resisting land grabbing in Germany
- ileia
- 18 April 2017
In rural Germany, a highly undemocratic form of land control is accelerating the process of land concentration, contributing to the increase of land prices and creating barriers for young farmers to enter agriculture.
RSPO accused of letting palm oil firm proceed with dodgy audits in Papua
- Mongabay
- 15 April 2017
The company, PT Nabire Baru, is alleged to have grabbed indigenous lands. Its parent, Goodhope, is a member of the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil.
Navigating the complexities of investing in agriculture
- Benefits Canada
- 11 April 2017
While Canadian agriculture shows some promise, institutional investors have been active on the global front, particularly when it comes to farmland.
How Jigawa Govt’s land grab for Chinese firm threatens livelihood of 150,000 citizens
- Premium Times
- 10 April 2017
The decision by the government of Nigeria's Jigawa State to hand over 12,000 hectares of land to a Chinese investor for a sugar cane plantation is threatening the livelihood of about 150,000 persons in the state
Merciless land grab violence hits women who want peace
- WNN
- 05 April 2017
Numerous ethnic women living inside Ethiopia today are attempting to work toward peace in the northern and southern regions of Ethiopia as they continue to witness the destructive crackdown of the government against rural farming communities.
World Bank ignores land grabbing
- Arbetet
- 04 April 2017
New documentary film shows how sales of huge land areas of Ethiopia, by the Ethiopian government, to foreign investors, have led to starvation and forced displacement, and how the World Bank is complicit.
Day of the landless: Resistance and people’s rights, best counter vs. land grabs – PANAP
- PANAP
- 31 Mar 2017
Still the most effective way to counter the land grabbers is the collective action of rural communities to resist and to assert the people’s rights to their own land and resources.
Peasants' houses in Mekar Jaya - the ''hometown of agrarian reform'' in Indonesia - razed down by a plantation firm
- LVC
- 31 Mar 2017
Less than 72 hours after President Joko Widodo's orders to implement the agrarian reform through land redistribution, peasant families of Mekar Jaya Village in Langkat District of North Sumatera Province in Indonesia were in for a rude shock.
AAF ESG Annual Report 2016
- Phatisa
- 31 Mar 2017
African Agriculture Fund Environmental, Social and Governance Annual Report 2016
CCFC Farmers member join LANDLESS DAY 29 March 2017
- CCFC
- 30 Mar 2017
Large land concessions are detrimental to the livelihoods of rural communities, who have drawn little benefit from these concessions and have had no effective remedy or recourse when their rights are infringed or violated.