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24 Jan 2019
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A fellowship opportunity for activists and journalists investigating and exposing land and housing injustice.
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Brazilian government split on land ownership law Dialogo Chino | 23 Jan 2019
Environmentalists and communities fear the consequences of changing 2010 foreign ownership regulations on farmland.
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Uzbekistan offers 20,000 hectare land to farmers, firms DNA India | 23 Jan 2019
Under an MoU signed between Gujarat Agro Industries Corporation and the Republic of Uzbekistan, the Uzbek government has offered the Indian company around 20,000 ha of land for farming
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Major foreign company to sell out investment amid troubling conditions FrontPageAfrica | 23 Jan 2019
Sime Darby has put up its oil plantation in Liberia on sale after failing to acquire all 220,000 hectares of land the government promised it as stated in a concession agreement signed about a decade ago.
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Govt. must publish full SABL list ActNow PNG | 22 Jan 2019
ACT NOW! is demanding Papua New Guinea government to immediately publish a full list of SABLs current status. SABL is one of the world’s biggest illegal land grabs, and now more than 5-years after PNG government promised to cancel the SABL, people are still waiting to hear which leases have been cancelled.
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Global asset and risk manager receives Guernsey Green Fund designation International Investment | 21 Jan 2019
Insight Investment received a Guernsey Green Fund accreditation for its farmland fund, the Global Farmland Fund Limited (GFF), which invests in farming projects worldwide
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Belgian human rights defender illegally expulsed from Cameroon CED | 21 Jan 2019
Cameroon’s top human rights body condemns human rights violations committed against a member of a local farmers association (OFFGO) embroiled in land conflicts with an influential Cameroon businessman
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Chinese investors protest against new crackdown on investment AFR | 18 Jan 2019
Australia's foreign investment regulator no longer believes private companies in China are free of Communist Party control, and plans on subjecting Chinese takeovers and deals, such as those for farmland, to more screening on national security grounds.
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Cambodia: Chinese firm to invest in cotton plantations Khmer Times | 18 Jan 2019
Chinese firm Jiangsu Lianfa is now crop testing in Pursat province, in the country’s west, and will start growing cotton on 180 hectares of land if test results are satisfactory.
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Lao protest villager freed, 11 still held RFA | 18 Jan 2019
Lao authorities have released a villager held since 2017 for protesting the loss of land awarded by the government to a Vietnamese rubber company, but 11 others remain in detention, with another reported to have died in custody last year.
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UN challenges PNG govt over illegal land grabbing Loop | 18 Jan 2019
The United Nations has accused the Papua New Guinea government of racial discrimination against its own people over its failure to stop foreign companies using SABL leases to illegally occupy customary land.
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Cambodia - Socfin-KCD contract on rubber plantation FIDH | 08 Oct 2008
Contract on the investment of rubber and agro-industry plantation between the Govt of Cambodia and KCD (SOCFIN) of 8 October 2008
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Du bololo chez Bolloré en Afrique ? Medi1 | 23 jan 2019
Entretien avec Eloïse Maulet de l'ONG ReAct sur les conflits fonciers autour des plantations du groupe SOCFIN, dans lequel le groupe Bolloré est actionnaire
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Litige foncier à Ngnith : Les populations des 47 villages de la réserve du Djaël ont encore marché pour réclamer leurs terres. Dakaractu | 22 jan 2019
Que ce soit Senhuile ou tout autre entreprise étrangère qui aurait pris la relève, toutes ont échoué car le projet n’a rien changé ni apporté comme avancées notoires pour les populations du Djaël
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Cameroun : Des femmes qui refusent de se taire InfoCongo.org | 14 jan 2019
Louise Nkakè affirme qu’un jour des soldats l’ont agressée et poussée violemment avec leurs fusils pour ensuite lui confisquer les noix qu’elle cuisait sous prétexte que celles-ci auraient volées dans la plantation de la Socapalm. Elle a insisté sur le fait qu’il s’agissait de ses propres noix.
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Haïti : agrobusiness et politiques publiques CETRI | 30 dec 2018
Une analyse de l'agrobusiness (et l'accaparement des terres) en Haïti
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