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farmlandgrab.org WEEKLY 08 Jun 2016
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EurActiv | 08 Jun 2016
European Parliament speaks out against agricultural colonialism in Africa

For a large majority of MEPs, the G7’s decision to base its programme for food security in Africa on intensive agriculture is a mistake.

hivisasa | 08 Jun 2016
Karuturi ex-workers demonstrate over unpaid dues

More than 200 former employees, waving placards and chanting slogans, accuse the company of failing to settle their dues before the company is taken over by a new management.

NDR | 07 Jun 2016
Sierra Leone: Failed development policy

Abass Kamara came a long way from Makeni, Sierra Leone to Berlin. Now he sit in the Reichstag, the German Parliament, waiting for answers. He wants to know why Germany supported the Addax-Project.

Greens | 07 Jun 2016
EU funding for New Alliance ignores murky world of land-grabs and human rights violations

Research commissioned by the EP’s human rights committee analyses the global land rush from a human rights perspective, and shows that the EU clearly needs to improve how it ensures compliance with human right obligations in projects that it funds.

EU Parliament | 07 Jun 2016
International farm projects in Sub-Saharan Africa need land grab safeguards, MEPs warn

Projects under the G8 New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition need to include environment protection measures and safeguards against land grabs, said EU MEPs in a resolution voted on Tuesday

China Daily | 03 Jun 2016
COFCO on the hunt for M&As

The prime target markets for China National Cereals, Oils and Foodstuffs Corp are the South and North Americas, and areas along the Black Sea in Europe.

Africa News | 03 Jun 2016
Bollore criticized at anti-land grabbing protests in Africa, Europe

More dissenting voices are being raised in West and Central African countries, as local communities and NGOs condemn land grabbing by industrial oil palm and rubber plantations company Socfin

Mongabay | 03 Jun 2016
PanEco resigns from RSPO over ‘sheer level of inaction’

One of the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil’s disgruntled NGO members officially called it quits on the organization last week, resigning over what it deemed the RSPO’s failure to reign in an industry tainted by environmental destruction and human rights abuses.

Agrimoney | 02 Jun 2016
How to find the exit from agricultural investments

David Gray, senior adviser at investment fund manager Altima Partners, talks to Agrimoney about how stakeholders in farming production companies can best hope to liquidate an unfashionable investment.

The Australian | 02 Jun 2016
US investors pour cash into $1bn agribusiness fund

Australian agricultural assets remain a major a drawcard for international investors with a string of mainly US-based investors funnelling hundreds of millions into a $1 billion fund established by the Queensland agribusiness investment firm, Laguna Bay Pastoral Company.

Nao ao ProSavana | 07 May 2016
Summary of the No to ProSavana Campaign’s meeting for convergence and resistance

Peasants from more than 19 districts affected by the ProSavana programme and other organisations reiterate their rejection of the ProSavana programme, as it has been advancing against their expressed will for the last four years.

Maria Heubuch | 30 Nov 2015
Land rush: Sellout of Europe’s agricultural land

Study shows that the concentration of agricultural land in Europe constitutes a major threat to sustainable small- and medium-scale agriculture and young farmers

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EurActiv | 08 jui 2016
Le Parlement européen s’oppose au colonialisme agricole en Afrique

Les eurodéputés réclament un changement radical de cap pour la Nouvelle Alliance pour la sécurité alimentaire et la nutrition, qui tend à répliquer le modèle d’agriculture intensive dans les pays africains.

Parlement Européen | 07 jui 2016
Il faut protéger les projets internationaux subsahariens contre l’accaparement des terres

Les projets sous l’égide de la NASAN doivent intégrer des garanties contre l’accaparement des terres, ont déclaré les députés du Parlement européen

Les Echos | 03 jui 2016
Des manifestants troublent l'assemblée générale de Bolloré

En réponse à un actionnaire qui évoque les critiques entendues à l'entrée sur l'accaparement des terres, Vincent Bolloré indique qu'il n'a pas de raison de douter que ce qu'ils font est bien

Le Parisien | 03 jui 2016
Une AG d’actionnaires du groupe Bolloré perturbée à Puteaux

Quelque 400 porteurs d’actions étaient attendus et se sont vus empêcher l’accès à la tour par les manifestants qui dénonçaient l'accaparement des terres

AFP | 03 jui 2016
Manifestation devant l'entrée de la tour Bolloré

Plusieurs dizaines de militants dénonçant l'accaparement de terres en Afrique et en Asie par une holding dont Bolloré est actionnaire perturbaient vendredi les arrivées à l'assemblée générale du groupe, à Puteaux, près de Paris.<<

FIAN Belgique | 02 jui 2016
« Actionnaires de SOCFIN : Arrêtez les accaparements de terres ! »

Ce mercredi 1er juin 2016, des citoyens et représentants d’organisations belges, françaises et luxembourgeoises ont interpellé les actionnaires du groupe belgo-luxembourgeois SOCFIN lors de son Assemblée générale.

L'Echo | 02 jui 2016
Socfin doit mettre fin aux accaparements de terres

Une dizaine d'ONG belges répondent au PDG de l'entreprise agro-industrielle Socfin

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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La Tarde | 07 jun 2016
Colombia: Senadores demandaron la constitucionalidad de la ley de Zidres

Desde este martes empezó a hacer tránsito en la Corte Constitucional una demanda por ilegalidad de la Ley de Zidres, por considerar que la misma beneficia a los ricos y no a los pobres que deberían usar las tierras baldías.

El Espectador | 07 jun 2016
Colombia: 'Ley de Zidres despoja a campesinos de derechos sobre tierras baldías': Robledo

El senador, en compañía de otros congresistas, radicará este martes una demanda de inconstitucionalidad en contra de la ley, aduciendo la prohibición de entregar baldíos “a magnates en lugar de campesinos sin tierra”.

WRM | 05 jun 2016
Carta-denuncia en rechazo a la iniciativa “Plataforma de Plantaciones de Nueva Generación”

En ocasión del 5 de junio, Día Mundial del Medio Ambiente, la Red Latinoamericana contra los Monocultivos de Árboles rechaza una vez más la iniciativa denominada “Plataforma de Plantaciones de Nueva Generación” de la que son parte las principales empresas de monocultivos de árboles en gran escala en América Latina

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