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"Socfin heeft zich nooit schuldig gemaakt aan landroof"
- VILT
- 02 Mar 2016
Dat zegt Luc Boedt, voorzitter van de beheerraad van Socfin, in een reactie op de bezetting van de hoofdzetel van het bedrijf door enkele Belgische NGO’s.
Common ground: Securing land rights and safeguarding the earth
- RRI
- 01 Mar 2016
Up to 2.5 billion people depend on indigenous and community lands, which make up over 50 percent of the land on the planet; they legally own just one-fifth. The remaining land remains vulnerable to land grabs from governments and corporations.
‘No land revolution’ coming: official
- Phnom Penh Post
- 01 Mar 2016
While vast tracts of Cambodia remain concentrated in the hands of a few and accusations of land grabbing remain rife, the broader distribution of land is more than equitable, the government says.
The great land rush
- Financial Times
- 01 Mar 2016
FT correspondents report on the global race for land from Ethiopia, Myanmar and Indonesia.
"Socfin has never been guilty of land grabbing"
- VILT
- 01 Mar 2016
So says the chairman of Socfin’s board of directors, Luc Boedt, in response to the occupation of the company’s headquarters by several Belgian NGOs.
Colombia: El ilegal ejemplo de las Zidres
- Las 2 Orillas
- 01 Mar 2016
El Senador Alberto Castilla da su opinión luego de recibir la respuesta de un derecho de petición enviado al Ministro de Agricultura sobre la empresa Forestal de la Orinoquía.
Venda de terras brasileiras: O país roubado por latifundiários
- Carta Maior
- 01 Mar 2016
Discutir projetos de lei colonialistas, num país cujas terras estão sendo mantidas e exploradas pela sonegação de impostos é um crime de lesa-pátria.
Australia deputy PM urges local investment in agriculture to meet strong Asia demand
- Reuters
- 01 Mar 2016
Australia's deputy prime minister on Tuesday urged the country's A$1.8 trillion (US$1.3 trillion) pension fund industry to boost its investment in agriculture as the sector gears up to meet strong demand from Asia.
Gambella evicts local investors from leased lands
- Fortune
- 29 February 2016
Nearly 100 commercial farming investors in Gambella are losing thousands of hectares of land because the region leased, by mistake, lands under federal jurisdiction.
Ukrainian prime minister suggests selling one mln ha of state lands at open auction
- Interfax
- 29 February 2016
Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatseniuk considers it necessary to sell 1 million hectares of lands in state ownership at an open auction as part of the land reform.
Conflict, companies stoke land grabs in Myanmar’s Kachin State
- Khmer Times
- 29 February 2016
Villagers say they were not consulted about plans to turn their land into grazing grounds and believe it was a ploy by officials who planned to profit from renting out 300 acres to a Chinese company for a banana plantation.
Brasil: Estrangeirização da terra é tema de workshop
- Suino Cultura Industrial
- 29 February 2016
No espaço de uma semana, uma equipe de pesquisadores internacionais coordenada pelo Prof. Dr. Bernardo Mançano Fernandes - Cátedra UNESCO de Educação e Desenvolvimento Territorial - realizou um programa que visa a dinâmica da internacionalização e aquisição de terras em larga escala.