The limits of law to address displacement and dispossession are not due to a lack of institutionalising international good governance norms into domestic-level legal frameworks.
- Oxford University
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07 July 2014
ANZ Bank cut its business ties to Phnom Penh Sugar without ensuring redress the grave harms caused to hundreds of families by the plantation that it financed.
- Equitable Cambodia
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07 July 2014
Swaziland's sugar workers score major success but struggle continues at Illovo, the largest sugar company in Africa.
Plight of Kenya's indigenous Sengwer shows carbon offsets are empowering corporate recolonisation of the South
Businesses and wealthy oligarchs have taken ownership over huge tracts of agricultural land, and pushed into poverty a large number of smallholders.
A group of South African investors have indicated interest to plough $200 million in the agriculture sector and acquire an initial 5,000 ha in Nigeria's Edo, Enugu and Benue states.
CSR Asia has published a new report that examines the rise of “land grabs” in Asia and how this impacts on poor and vulnerable people in the region.
James Cameron, Canadian-born director of Titanic and Avatar, has bought up two more properties, bringing his total purchases of farms in the area to at least 12.
Community groups have welcomed the Papua New Guinea Government's announcement it will abolish special agricultural business leases.
As negotiations over responsible agricultural investment policy run through the summer, Tanzanian villagers fight for the return of 20,000 acres of land lost to a failed biofuel project.
Text of the decision by the Papua New Guinea Government to repeal the provisions of the Structural Agriculture Business Lease (SABL) in the Lands Act to prevent anymore SABL dealings.
Land grabs by foreign companies in poor parts of Africa and Asia could feed an extra 100 million people if the land is used to grow crops, say researchers.
- New Scientist
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27 June 2014