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Let’s stop SGSOC palm oil plantation project
- Greenpeace
- 05 October 2016
As SGSOC's provisional land lease is about to expire this November, the communities’ strongly hope that the government will stop the project.
244 Cameroonian farmers bring SGSOC palm oil plantation to justice
- Greenpeace
- 05 October 2016
Local communities affected by a large-scale palm oil plantation took their case to the Court of First Instance in Bangem, south-west Cameroon, with the first hearing set for 9 November.
DR Congo to publish land deals in bid to gain public trust
- Reuters
- 05 October 2016
The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) plans to make all of its large-scale agricultural contracts public, in an effort to increase transparency over land deals and improve management of natural resources, say officials and researchers.
Large M&A deal could change Vietnam’s sugar industry
- VietNamNet
- 04 October 2016
Hoang Anh Gia Lai Group (HAGL) has finally confirmed that it is negotiating with Thanh Thanh Cong (TTC) on the transfer of its sugar mill and 6,000 ha plantation in Laos.
South America's farm operators lure another top investor
- Agrimoney
- 03 October 2016
Ruane, Cunniff and Goldfarb has bought a 5.1% stake in BrasilAgro, which has a total landbank of more than 250,000 hectares - an area about the size of Luxembourg - in Brazil and Paraguay.
The sugar rush in southern Africa
- Zimbabweland
- 03 October 2016
The land rush in southern Africa is often a sugar rush, with the ‘white gold’ promising riches to governments, local elites and large corporates alike.
Civil Society Report on the use and implementation of the Tenure Guidelines
- CSM
- 30 September 2016
Report summarizes the results of a consultation among small-scale food producers and CSOs on the use and implementation of the Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests.
TIAA increases stake in joint venture with Cosan
- TIAA
- 30 September 2016
TIAA pays R$1.1 billion to increase its stake in Radar Propriedades Agrícolas S.A, a joint-venture established in partnership with Cosan in 2008 which owns and manages rural properties in Brazil.
Officials inspect banana plantation after workers fall ill
- Vietiane Times
- 29 September 2016
Vientiane officials went to observe operations at a 40,000-hectare Chinese-owned banana plantation in Pakngum district yesterday after five workers fell ill from pesticide exposure.
Comment: Why voluntary policies will not stop deforestation
- IDM
- 29 September 2016
“On their own these commitments are never going to stop deforestation. And there is a danger that zero deforestation policies are distracting attention and diverting resources away from the law enforcement and governance reforms that are needed.”
Take your hands off the earth!
- Slow Food
- 28 September 2016
Activists from six countries as well as the UN Special Rapporteur on the rights of Indigenous Peoples joined a recent Terra Madre Forum on land grabbing, “Take Your Hands Off The Earth”.
Palm oil profits trump self-sufficiency in Sierra Leone
- Deutsche Welle
- 28 September 2016
Socfin's most recent project is in Sierra Leone. The country possesses massive amounts of land where oil palm production could thrive and a government that is willing to hand over this land to investors for not that much money.