Harassment and arbitrary arrests of land defenders in the DRC
    RIAO-RDC and its international partners demand the immediate and unconditional release of nine land defenders who are currently being held in Kisangani Central Prison under the direction of the Canadian plantation company PHC-Feronia.
    • RIAO-RDC
    • 28 October 2019
    Harcèlement et arrestations arbitraires de défenseurs des terres en RD Congo
    Le RIAO-RDC et ses partenaires internationaux exigent la libération immédiate et sans conditions de leurs membres et leaders communautaires qui sont actuellement en détention à la prison centrale de Kisangani sous l'impulsion de la PHC-Feronia.
    • RIAO-RDC
    • 27 October 2019
    Lecture exposes pension fund's links to Brazil land grabs
    Altamiran Ribeiro, a Brazilian land rights activist, told an audience at John Hopkins University about the land takeovers on behalf of corporations in Brazil and the long-term consequences on local communities and the environment.
    • John Hopkins Newsletter
    • 25 October 2019
    Sangue indigeno a cena? Buycott
    Testimonianze dirette nell'ambito dell'arrivo della delegazione delle comunità indigene a Roma. Tematiche: deforestazioni e loro conseguenze su popolazioni della foresta amazzonica
    • https://www.egalite.org/sangue-indigeno-a-cena-buycott/
    • 24 October 2019
    Uganda’s eco-feminists are taking on mining and plantation industries
    Uganda’s government is supporting the rapid growth of extractive industries, but ranged against this is the swift growth of an eco-feminist movement that regards protection of the environment as essential to the protection of human rights.
    • Mongabay
    • 23 October 2019
    Agrofotovoltaica: Combinar paneles solares con agricultura
    Por qué las granjas solares se combinan sorprendentemente bien con los tomates, patatas, pimientos, etc. Qué ventajas y beneficios aporta la Agrofotovoltaica (agricultura + fotovoltaica)
    • Agrofotovoltaica: Combinar paneles solares con agricultura
    • 23 October 2019
    El acaparamiento de tierras agrícolas de Harvard y TIAA en Brasil se hace humo
    Tenemos pruebas de que los incendios del Cerrado también están vinculados a otros intereses financieros con sede en Estados Unidos: el Fondo de Dotación de la Universidad de Harvard y el TIAA, el fondo de pensiones privado que invierte en nombre de millones de profesores, académicos, enfermeras y trabajadores del gobierno en todo el país.
    • GRAIN
    • 22 October 2019
    HAIG divests Australia's largest macadamia portfolio to Belgian sugar producer Finasucre in $60M deal
    Belgian sugar producer Finasucre has agreed to acquire the Winfield Road aggregation – the largest Macadamia portfolio in Australia – from Hancock Agricultural Investment Group for a record-breaking $59.2 million.
    • GAI
    • 22 October 2019
    Divest Harvard holds protest about university’s Brazilian land ownership
    The student group Divest Harvard hosted a day of events calling attention to Harvard’s ownership of Brazilian land and reigniting its calls for the school to sell those holdings in the name of environmentalism.
    • Harvard Crimson
    • 22 October 2019
    Harvard and TIAA's farmland grab in Brazil goes up in smoke
    Satellite maps show the connection between Harvard and TIAA's farmland acquisitions in Brazil's Cerrado and the massive number of fires that have been burning in the region since July of this year.
    • FOE US, GRAIN,NFFC, Rede Social
    • 22 October 2019
    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

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