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farmlandgrab.org WEEKLY 05 Apr 2017
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New powerful documentary film on landgrabbing in Ethiopia launches kickstarter fundraising campaign to support land defenders
 
 
Sign petition to stop the oil palm expansion in the Philippines that represents a final blow to indigenous people’s rights and the country’s environment
 
Arbetet | 04 Apr 2017
World Bank ignores land grabbing

New documentary film shows how sales of huge land areas of Ethiopia, by the Ethiopian government, to foreign investors, have led to starvation and forced displacement, and how the World Bank is complicit.

PANAP | 31 Mar 2017
Day of the landless: Resistance and people’s rights, best counter vs. land grabs – PANAP

Still the most effective way to counter the land grabbers is the collective action of rural communities to resist and to assert the people’s rights to their own land and resources.

LVC | 31 Mar 2017
Peasants' houses in Mekar Jaya - the ''hometown of agrarian reform'' in Indonesia - razed down by a plantation firm

Less than 72 hours after President Joko Widodo's orders to implement the agrarian reform through land redistribution, peasant families of Mekar Jaya Village in Langkat District of North Sumatera Province in Indonesia were in for a rude shock.

CCFC | 30 Mar 2017
CCFC Farmers member join LANDLESS DAY 29 March 2017

Large land concessions are detrimental to the livelihoods of rural communities, who have drawn little benefit from these concessions and have had no effective remedy or recourse when their rights are infringed or violated.

Land Portal | 30 Mar 2017
Land Information Ecosystem Declaration

A group of individuals from a broad range of institutions and organizations that focus on improving land governance around the world hereby commit to promote and bolster data-sharing efforts within the land sector.

Reuters | 29 Mar 2017
Farmers seek independent inquiry into controversial Sierra Leone palm oil deal

Farmers and charities are demanding an independent investigation into the claims made by landowners who say their complaints and grievances were ignored.

IDM | 24 Mar 2017
Swiss banks bankrolling illegal deforestation in Africa and East Asia

A recent report has exposed links between Swiss banks and some of the world’s largest palm oil plantation companies. Earthsight has reviewed the findings and shown that most of these firms have been involved in illegal deforestation.

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Agence Ecofin | 04 avr 2017
Mali : les députés adoptent la loi sur le foncier agricole

Les députés maliens viennent d’adopter le projet de loi sur le foncier agricole, ce qui incitera les investisseurs à investir davantage au Mali

RFI | 01 avr 2017
Rwanda: une ONG accuse le gouvernement de répression dans des litiges fonciers

Human Rights Watch accuse des autorités civiles et militaires de l’ouest du Rwanda d’avoir menacé, violenté et poursuivi en justice des habitants qui se sont opposés à des politiques d’expropriation de terres agricoles.

France 24 | 31 mar 2017
Accaparement des terres : le rôle trouble des agences publiques en Afrique

L'Agence française de développement se trouve sous le feu des critiques de la part de plusieurs ONG françaises et internationales, qui l’accusent de favoriser les cas d’accaparements de terre

RTS | 26 mar 2017
Un accaparement des terres ravageur

Aux quatre coins de la planète, des millions dʹhectares de terre sont loués ou achetés par de grandes firmes. Entretien avec Maryline Bisilliat, de "Pain pour le Prochain".

Voit et agir | 14 nov 2016
Terres volées

Les conséquences des investissements bancaires suisses dans l'accaparement des terres.

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IHU | 30 Mar 2017
Brasil: Desmate no cerrado anula ganhos na Amazônia

Estudo mostra que pressão ao agronegócio sobre Matopiba, zona de expansão da agricultura, já compensa parte das emissões de carbono reduzidas pela queda na taxa de devastação amazônica.

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