Landless: How the Dutch development bank marginalises farmers
    The Dutch development bank FMO says its investments promote oil palm plantations in local communities. But the local communities are not welcoming these plantations. They want their land back.
    • Trouw
    • 22 October 2019
    Pourquoi ’Banque mondiale’ et ’agroécologie’ ne font pas bon ménage ?
    Dans cet article accessible et instructif, Renaud Vivien du CADTM explique comment la Banque mondiale et le FMI ont imposé aux pays du Sud des politiques destructrices pour les économies locales au profit des multinationales.
    • Investigaction
    • 21 October 2019
    APG sets up natural resources desk in Asia buildout
    Europe’s biggest pension fund manager is set to expand its Asia portfolio "primarily with additions of co-investments, joint-ventures and investor-led platforms with a focus on farmland and timberland".
    • Asian Investor
    • 21 October 2019
    Land grabbing as an internationally wrongful act
    Displacement Solutions has just published a major 184-page legal report on the land grabbing in Myanmar, including for agriculture, and how these processes constitute internationally wrongful acts.
    • DA
    • 21 October 2019
    Socfin Cambodia position statement
    Recently some articles have been released in the French and Cambodian press regarding a procedure contesting our responsible management and Bolloré’s alleged liability in our activities in Cambodia (1-10-2019).
    • Socfin
    • 18 October 2019
    Government agrees to develop agriculture farm and plantation with Elite Agro UAE LLC
    Central Kalimantan provincial government in Indonesia agrees to cooperate with Elite Agro LLC of UAE to develop agriculture and plantation sector. As initial step, government will prepare 5,000 hectares of land for the agriculture project.
    • Sampit Prokal
    • 18 October 2019
    Cross River Assembly reads riot act to multinationals
    Cross River State House of Assembly has ordered Wilmar PZ and other multinationals to obey the laws of the state or face the music, following community complaints of exploitation and land grabbing by Wilmar at its plantations.
    • The Guardian
    • 17 October 2019
    Dying for land in Lao?
    Villagers detained for defending their lands from land grabs were beaten and subjected to electric shocks in the days following their arrest, with another later reported to have died in custody.
    • Asean Post
    • 16 October 2019
    Ivory Coast law could see chocolate industry ‘wipe out’ protected forests
    Critics condemn move placing thousands of square miles of rainforest under control of international companies, such as Olam and Siat.
    • https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/oct/16/ivory-coast-law-could-see-chocolate-industry-wipe-out-protected-forests
    • 16 October 2019
    Rapina delle terre e deforestazioni, olio di palma e soia OGM. #Buycott!
    La campagna di sensibilizzazione #Buycott inizia il 4 agosto 2019, in reazione all'emergenza climatica denunciata da Antonio Gutierrez, segretario generale ONU. Partendo dalla descrizione del land grabbing, un manifesto programmatico per stare dalla parte dell'Ambiente, dicendo no ad agricoltura e allevamenti intensivi.
    • https://www.greatitalianfoodtrade.it/idee/rapina-delle-terre-e-deforestazioni-olio-di-palma-e-soia-ogm-buycott
    • 16 October 2019
    Dutch development bank funded projects tied to murder, land-grabs: report.
    The Dutch newspaper Trouw identified at least seven projects that FMO funded in which the companies involved were connected to murder, intimidation, environmental damage, arbitrary arrests and land grabbing.
    • Dutch News
    • 15 October 2019
    Saudi Arabia and Russia sign up to closer ties with 20 new deals
    The Russian Direct Investment Fund and the Saudi Agricultural and Livestock Investment Company signed an agreement to join forces in the search of investment projects in the Russian agricultural sector
    • Arab News
    • 15 October 2019
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