Nine representatives of the Bunong indigenous communities in Cambodia who claimed to be victim to plantation project by French company Socfin-KCD appeared for questioning at the Tribunal of Nanterre in France.
- Phnom Penh Post
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01 October 2019
Le RIAO-RDC appel au respect de l'évolution de la médiation et sollicite l'implication des tous pour contraindre la PHC/Feronia à mettre fin à ses actions provocatrices et violences contre les propriétaires terriers qui revendiquent leurs droits
Ils ont saisi la justice française pour réclamer la restitution de leurs terres, accaparées depuis douze ans par des plantations d’hévéa.
- Le Parisien
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01 October 2019
Quatre-vingts cultivateurs poursuivent le groupe Bolloré et ses filiales, les accusant d’avoir accaparé leurs terres ancestrales.
- Mediapart
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01 October 2019
Worldwide farmland under management reversed upward trends in recent years, with assets falling 15.7% to $16.2 billion, according to Pensions & Investments' annual survey.
- PI Online
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01 October 2019
The government of Sierra Leone has signed a $275M investment deal with the Turkish SALA Group, for the resumption of large-scale rice farm project, covering 54,000 ha in Torma Bum.
- SL Telegraph
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30 September 2019
The mandate of the committee was to enquire into and come out with recommendations that would resolve the conflict between the landowners, the Chiefdom council and the SOCFIN Agricultural Company in Sierra Leone.
- Government of Sierra Leone
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30 September 2019
Residents of Yala swamp, in Kenya, have begun the process of registering the land to ward off cartels seeking to benefit from the process after the departure of Dominion Farms
- The Standard
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29 September 2019
Selon le Prof Ibrahima Arouna Diallo, le coordinateur du réseau NELGA, la vallée du fleuve Sénégal "est un grenier de plus en plus menacé avec les investissements privés, les accaparements et la saturation des terres".
- Dakar Actu
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27 September 2019
Independent investigators to explore alleged involvement of security guard for palm oil company supported by CDC
- Guardian
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27 September 2019
Greenpeace Africa is appalled — but not surprised — by reports of violent nocturnal arrests and torture of Congolese villagers in Tshopo province who are involved in a conflict over their land with the Canadian palm oil company Feronia Inc.
- Greenpeace
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26 September 2019
Le 18 septembre 2019, Mombulu Boyama Alphonse a été arrêté à Yangoma, puis détenu au poste de police de Lokutu à la suite d'une plainte déposée contre lui par le Procureur général de la province de la Tshopo. La plainte est liée à une manifestation des villageois contre Plantation Huilerie du Congo (PHC-FERONIA).
- Front Line Defenders
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25 September 2019
The complaint was filed in March on behalf of more than 700 displaced Cambodian families by the U.S. organization IDI and the Cambodian organizations Equitable Cambodia and LICADHO
Front Line Defenders launches urgent appeal over attacks against staff of the Congolese organisation RIAO-DRC and community leaders involved in land conflict with PHC-FERONIA.
- Front Line Defenders
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25 September 2019
Croatia will soon submit a request to the European Commission to extend a seven-year moratorium on the sale of agricultural land to foreigners.
- Euractiv
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25 September 2019