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farmlandgrab.org WEEKLY 25 May 2016
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| 25 May 2016
ProSavana files

A collection of official ProSavana files and reports from 2009 to 2016.

Asia Pacific Report | 25 May 2016
West Papuans, activists protest against Sorong oil palm expansion

As the indigenous people of Sorong, Nabire, Merauke and elsewhere in West Papua continue to resist oil palm expansion, there now appears to be some hope that the government is responding to President Joko Widodo’s call last month for a moratorium on all new permits.

Citizen | 24 May 2016
Tanzania: Project axed to save wildlife

The Government has decided to shelf the Bagamoyo EcoEnergy sugar plantation project in order to safeguard Wami River from which the project would draw its water.

Radio Mundo Real | 23 May 2016
How agribusiness acts in Europe

Real World Radio interviewed Paula Gioia, member of Arbeitsgemeinschaft der bauerliche Landwirtschaft and the European Coordination of La Via Campesina during the International Conference on Agrarian Reform in Pará, Brazil.

Growing Produce | 20 May 2016
Florida farmland becoming big deal for institutional investors

Real estate agent says with commodity prices down, institutional investors who had been investing in farmland in the Midwest are turning their attention to places like Florida, and sees upswing in investment from Latin America.

Mongabay | 20 May 2016
World Bank lifts freeze on Cambodia loans amid protests

The Bank says the move will help alleviate poverty in the Southeast Asian country, but land rights activists expressed disappointment over the decision.

LJ4WA | 19 May 2016
98- year old, blind Elizabeth has to give way for palm oil plantation

Thousands of people are being disenfranchised, evicted and deprived of their livelihoods near Kade, Eastern Region of Ghana, by the Belgian oil palm plantation company GOPDC.

Guardian | 19 May 2016
Brazil's Guarani Indians killing themselves over loss of ancestral land

Arson attacks and eviction at gunpoint for plantations driving many to despair and take their own lives.

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ARTE | 20 mai 2016
Wanted ! Terres agricoles

Ce mois de mai a vu expirer la dernière règlementation transitoire qui devait protéger les "nouveaux venus" d’Europe de l’Est, contre les investisseurs étrangers à l’affût des terres agricoles.

Info Cameroun | 19 mai 2016
Après le documentaire de France 2, le DG de la Socapalm viré !

Depuis la diffusion en Avril 2016 de l’émission «Complement d’enquête» sur la chaine française France 2, le personnel de la Socapalm a perdu le sommeil, relate Info Cameroun

Projet React | 19 mai 2016
Lutte des riverains des plantations Socfin Bolloré

Pour revendiquer leurs droits, les riverains des plantations Socfin-Bolloré s'organisent.

Hulala | 15 nov 2015
Les terres hongroises lorgnées par les spéculateurs étrangers et les oligarques d’Orbán

Le Gouvernement Orbán s’apprête à privatiser 380 000 hectares de terres arables, soit 20% du total des terres détenues par l’Etat.

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JVC | 23 May 2016
G7伊勢志摩サミット2016に向けた アフリカにおける食料安全保障及び栄養のためのニューアライアンスに関する声明

アフリカの人びとの食料主権および食料への権利を守るために活動してきた私たち市民は、2016年5月25、26日に開催される伊勢志摩サミットに際し、G7首脳に向けて「食料安全保障及び栄養のためのニューアライアンス」に対する深い懸念を表明いたします。

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