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farmlandgrab.org WEEKLY |
26 Oct 2016 |
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Sign petition calling on Government of Malawi to drop court case against the People's Land Organisation, which is claiming reparations from tea estates for land grabbing and forced labour. |
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Manitoba Cooperator | 26 Oct 2016
The Senate agriculture committee is launching a study into the ownership of Canadian farmland and the challenges that farmers face in expanding their operations. |
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Reuters | 25 Oct 2016
People from Oromiya, a region at the heart of Ethiopia's industrialisation efforts, accuse the state of seizing their land and offering tiny compensation, before selling it on to companies, often foreign investors, at inflated prices. |
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Produce Plus | 25 Oct 2016
Itochu's $57.7m investment through its Dole business will include a 55 per cent increase of its 20,000 ha plantations in the Philippines by 2018 |
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Daily Mail | 23 Oct 2016
After nearly a year of protests, demonstrators in Ethiopia turned their anger to foreign investors who they blame for occupying land appropriated by the government. |
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IDI | 21 Oct 2016
Online resource explains how to mine publicly available information to identify and analyze the companies, investors and other actors behind destructive projects. |
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Land Portal | 20 Oct 2016
Lorenzo Cotula discusses highlights from his latest academic piece, in which he explores whether investment treaties protect 'land grab' deals, and how these impact the land rights of rural people. |
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Guardian | 20 Oct 2016
Golden Veroleum Liberia is building one of the largest palm oil plantations in the civil-war scarred country, bringing jobs but dividing communities |
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Global Witness | 20 Oct 2016
Palm oil giant Golden Veroleum has bulldozed religious sites in southeast Liberia and has paid police armed with assault rifles to protect its plantations, according to a new Global Witness exposé. |
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Reflets | 24 oct 2016
Il est très certainement une opération industrielle concertée autour de la production et l’exportation de lait en poudre vers la Chine, selon Reflets. |
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RFI | 24 oct 2016
Quatre familles parmi les plus riches d’Australie s'associent pour s'interposer entre un investisseur chinois et son objectif, le groupe Kidman qui détient 2,5% des terres agricoles d’Australie et 185 000 têtes de bétail. |
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Rural-Info.net | 24 oct 2016
Greenpeace et Oakland Institute accusent l’Ambassade des États-Unis au Cameroun d’avoir ignoré des allégations de corruption au sein de Herakles Farms/SGSOC |
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Ndar Info | 21 oct 2016
Les italiens de Tampieri Financial Group qui contrôlent Senhuile sont en négociation avec des entrepreneurs marocains pour leur céder des terres. |
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Midi Libre | 20 oct 2016
"Les groupes étrangers sont censés apporter du progrès et de l'argent, sauf que les communautés locales n'en voient pas les retombées." |
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Radio Australia | 20 oct 2016
Un groupe d'éleveurs australiens contre la femme la plus riche du pays, alliée à un groupe chinois : c'est l'affiche d'un duel qui s'annonce passionnant, avec en ligne de mire, les terres agricoles de la famille Kidman. |
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Coalición Mundial por los Bosques | 21 oct 2016
“Medidas ambiciosas, concretas y cuantificables son necesarias para limitar el consumo excesivo de carne y otros productos animales por parte de las élites ricas, y para parar la deforestación y el cambio climático
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Leonardo Rossi | 20 oct 2016
El 29 de junio el presidente Mauricio Macri tomó una decisión clave en lo que refiere a la soberanía territorial y el esquema de la propiedad de la tierra en un país donde el modelo agrario es central. |
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