El Registro de Propiedad Inmueble de la Provincia de Río Negro tiene un plazo de 10 días para informar sobre la veracidad o no de la adquisición de 28.000 hectáreas en la zona cordillerana de la provincia por parte del Emir de Qatar, Hamad bin Jalifa Al Thani.
- ADN Río Negro
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04 August 2018
An overview of land grabbing in Africa and Asia as lessons for Sri Lanka. In September 2016 the International Criminal Court called land grabs as a crime against humanity and this is an area that Sri Lanka’s lawyers are advised to further look into.
Myanmar Investment Commission (MIC) have allowed Foreign businesses to invest up to 80 percent in Myanmar's agriculture sector instead of 49 percent.
- Eleven Myanmar
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03 August 2018
Sokotra Capital, a Dubai firm set up by former UBS Group AG banker Albert Momdjian, led a consortium of investors in acquiring fish-farm L’Aquaculture Tunisienne for an undisclosed amount.
Longmate Agricuture Co., Ltd. une coentreprise d’investisseurs cambodgiens et chinois, a annoncé avoir investi 32 millions de dollars pour la culture de bananes sur 1000 hectares de terres dans le district de Chhouk à Kampot.
- Cambodge Mag
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03 August 2018
Los abogados sostienen y fundamentan que Daniel Solano fue asesinado por reclamar mejoras laborales y protestar por una estafa en el pago de los jornales que le habían prometido a él y a sus compañeros la empresa, ya extinta, Agrocosecha, que era una subsidiaria de la firma internacional Expofrut.
- El Tribuno
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02 August 2018
El nuevo Congreso de la República se estrena en funciones con el proyecto de ley de tierras o reforma a la Ley 160 de 1994, que resume la intención de los poderosos dueños de la tierra en Colombia de impedir su democratización y frenar la modernización y la productividad del campo.
- Palabras al Margen
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01 August 2018
A video from The Gecko Project following an indigenous Dayak man who shows how a corrupt land deals for oil palm plantation affecting village life in the interior of Indonesian Borneo, including their access to clean water.
- The Gecko Project
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31 July 2018
“En la Amazonía están tumbando los territorios baldíos, para luego buscar que se les formalice la tierra. Esto ya tiene que parar"
Nestle response to the Cambodian farmers lawsuit against sugar producer, Mitr Pohl over alleged land grabbing. The Thai company, Mitr Pohl is direct supplier to Nestlé and tier 2 supplier in other supply chains, mostly via traders.
- Business and human rights resources centre
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31 July 2018
Award-winning Cameroonian journalist Madeleine Ngeunga and Fern’s Indra Van Gisbergen recently visited villages in the shadow of Socapalm’s oil palm plantations to see if issues driving the dispute between locals and the company are being resolved.
Abraaj Capital, the PE firm that was very active in the rush to buy global farmland after the food financial crises of 2008, has collapsed and is under investigation for “mismanagement, comingling of funds and misappropriation of assets"
- Deal Street Asia
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30 July 2018
Peoples Dispatch speaks to the Southern Peasant’s Federation of Thailand’s Theeranate Chaisuwan on the struggles of this landless workers’ movement for land held illegally by a palm oil company.
- Peoples Dispatch
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30 July 2018
Interview with top executives of Phoenix Group, the world's 3rd largest rice trader controlling 150,000 ha of farmland in different parts of the world
- OFID Quarterly
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30 July 2018
En réponse au verdict accablant rendu par le Comité des plaintes de la RSPO concernant Golden Veroleum Liberia (GVL) – verdict maintenu en appel – GVL a annoncé sa décision de « retirer temporairement » son adhésion à la RSPO.