• Global NGOs call for the release of Cambodian land rights activist Tep Vanny
    • Global Voices
    • 16 August 2017

    65 civil society organizations (CSOs) and non-government organizations (NGOs) from across the world signed a unity statement urging Cambodian government to release land rights activist Tep Vanny, who has been in detention for the past 12 months.

  • Daewoo dan Samsung dituding terlibat “menghabisi” hutan Papua
    • Tabloid Jubi
    • 16 August 2017

    Samsung dan Daewoo dituding terlibat dalam deforestasi di Papua bersama Korindo Group, dua perusahaan Korea Selatan ini telah mengurangi hutan primer di Papua untuk perkebunan kelapa sawit, menyalahgunakan hak dan mata pencaharian masyarakat lokal.

  • Can big money fix a broken food system?
    • Civil Eats
    • 15 August 2017

    Financial services firms are increasingly directing investor dollars into regenerative agriculture and other systemic food projects in the US, although not without risks

  • International investment blamed for violence and oppression in Sarawak
    • Mongabay
    • 15 August 2017

    NGOs in Sarawak and around the world report failures by the Sarawak government to uphold indigenous land rights, and failures by international banks and investors to ensure their investments are conflict-free.

  • Brasil: A floresta como moeda de troca
    • IHU
    • 15 August 2017

    Em julho, Temer sancionou a chamada Medida Provisória (MP) da grilagem, que, segundo críticos, perdoa todas as ocupações realizadas por tais grupos criminosos.

  • Senegal: Están locos estos ‘tubabs’
    • El País
    • 15 August 2017

    Como la aldea gala de Asterix, un puñado de comunidades campesinas resiste con dificultades al acaparamiento de tierras en el valle del río Senegal.

  • Samsung: get out of conflict palm oil!
    • SumOfUs
    • 15 August 2017

    Samsung subsidiary announced last week that it will be forming a joint venture with Korean-Indonesian agribusiness company, Korindo which was recently exposed for burning and clearing tens of thousands of hectares of Indonesia's rainforest for palm oil and timber production.

  • Colombia: la Amazonia se convirtió en tierra de nadie
    • El Colombiano
    • 14 August 2017

    La principal causa de este desastre nacional, según el Ideam, es el afán de acaparamiento de tierras.

  • Chinese livestock firm taps up Southeast Asia
    • Global meat news
    • 14 August 2017

    A leading Chinese livestock and meat processing firm wants to tap supply of cattle from south-east Asia, with a cattle quarantine and slaughtering hub planned for the city of Ruili, on the border with Myanmar.

  • French company relocates investment plant over land dispute
    • Addis Fortune
    • 12 August 2017

    The Oromia Investment Commission faces a challenge in relocating 600 farmers from the 335ha of land leased to European Food and Cattle Plc in East Shoa, Ethiopia.

  • MP da Grilagem: Temer’s land grabbing bill
    • Los Despojados
    • 12 August 2017

    The new Brazil legislation, dubbed MP da grilagem (land-grabbing bill) will loosen regulations on land legalisation, essentially legalises grilagem, which refers to the historically specific enclosures or land grabs that have been occurring in Brazil since colonial times.

  • Une entreprise française délocalise l’investissement d’une usine suite à une dispute foncière
    • Addis Fortune
    • 12 August 2017

    La Commission de l’investissement de la région de l’Oromia est confrontée au défi de délocaliser 600 paysans de 335 hectares de terres d’un total de 800 hectares louées à la SARL European Food and Cattle

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