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What’s in a number?
- Global Witness
- 11 Mar 2014
Why the struggle to quantify the global land grabbing crisis is part of the problem.
The many faces of land grabbing. Cases from Africa and Latin America.
- EJOLT
- 10 Mar 2014
Report describes and analyzes specific cases of land grabbing around the world within various socio economical contexts and with diverse social and environmental consequences .
NGOs welcome Liberian President's commitment to stop British palm oil company "taking" community land
- Global Witness
- 10 Mar 2014
Global Witness and SAMFU welcome the commitment by President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf to make any expansion by Equatorial Palm Oil onto Jogbahn Clan land dependent on the approval of the communities affected.
Report by Green Scenery on land confrontation with SOCFIN
- WRM
- 09 Mar 2014
One month after the confrontation between land owners in southern Sierra Leone and the SOCFIN Agricultural Company, Green Scenery published a 13-page report on the clamp down on community members who have been advocating for their rights to their land.
Okomu Oil Palm Company – destroying communities for oil palm expansion
- WRM
- 09 Mar 2014
Sunny Ajele, talks about how life for the communities in Edo State Nigeria has changed with the expansion of the oil palm plantations by a SOCFIN subsidiary
Hungary's farmland clampdown risks new conflict with EU
- Reuters
- 08 Mar 2014
Austrian farmers working in Hungary could be forced off their land under new laws initiated by Prime Minister Viktor Orban, a prospect that angers Vienna and could revive conflict between Orban and Brussels.
Euro investors eyeing farms
- Fairfax
- 08 Mar 2014
There is growing interest from international investors in the New Zealand agricultural sector, particularly from wealthy Europeans, boutique funds manager Mint Asset Management says.
Austrian farmers working in Hungary could be forced off their land under new laws
- World Bulletin
- 07 Mar 2014
Austrian farmers working in Hungary could be forced off their land under new laws initiated by Prime Minister Viktor Orban, a prospect that angers Vienna and could revive conflict between Orban and Brussels.
Grand Bassa County celebrate halting of EPO expansion drive
- FrontPageAfrica
- 07 Mar 2014
The long fight between the people of Joghban and other surrounding clans and the Equatorial Palm Oil Company seems to be over.
In Senegal, a clash on land leased from the government
- La Repubblica
- 07 Mar 2014
The local population is opposed to the project. ActionAid petition against the Italian company Tampieri accused of land grabbing. The reply: “We operate according to the rules, in the interest of the people"
Shanghai Pengxin to acquire New Zealand dairy farm
- MENAFN
- 06 Mar 2014
Private Chinese firm Shanghai Pengxin Group Co., Ltd. has gained regulatory approval to acquire New Zealand-based Synlait Farms with its 13 pastures and 13,000 cows.
Clash with palm oil company leaves one indigenous community member dead in Sumatra
- mongabay.com
- 06 Mar 2014
A member of the Suku Anak Dalam indigenous community was killed and five others were injured during a clash with security forces on an oil palm concession owned by PT Asiatic Persada in Sumatra.