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09 May 2019
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What we learned from two years of investigating corrupt land deals in Indonesia and what it says about how to fix the nation’s deforestation and land rights crisis The Gecko Project | 08 May 2019
The last of investigative series “Indonesia for Sale” examined the corruption underpinning Indonesia’s land rights and climate crisis in unparalleled depth from the expansion of oil palm plantations in the country.
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Sierra Leone: Parliament legalize Sierra Tropical operations Awoko | 08 May 2019
Sierra Tropical Investment Company, a subsidiary of Dole Asia Holdings, has been given the green light to operate a 4,335 ha pineapple farm by the House of Parliament.
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How a Chinese venture in Venezuela made millions while locals grew hungry Reuters | 08 May 2019
Under a 2010 pact with the Chávez government, China CAMC Engineering Co Ltd was paid $100 million to develop rice paddies twice the size of Manhattan to feed millions. But 9 years later, locals are hungry and the project hasn’t yielded a single grain of rice.
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Green activists are fighting the great fight—but are being dragged down by petty lawsuits Newsweek | 07 May 2019
In France, the holding company Socfin and its Cameroonian subsidiary Socapalm, both affiliated with Bolloré Group, sued journalists and nongovernmental groups who reported on villagers’ protests against the companies’ palm oil plantations in their communities and land.
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21,500 hectares of land in Kawambwa offered to investors Lusaka Times | 06 May 2019
Zambia's Kawambwa Town Council has allocated 21,500 hectares of farms to new more large scale investors to diversify the local economy driven by agriculture, mining and tourism.
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Gulf capital and Egypt's corporate food system: a region in the third food regime Review of African Political Economy | 05 May 2019
Gulf investment is one of the largest foreign capitals in Egypt's agribusiness sector and it owns companies that have controlling market shares of corporate food.
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Land summit or land grab? ActNow PNG | 02 May 2019
Jubilee Australia and the Oakland Institute denounce the National Land Summit, organized by the Papua New Guinea (PNG) government, as a dangerous attack on the country’s unique customary land tenure system.
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China touts agriculture cooperation with Belt-Road countries Dim Sums | 30 Apr 2019
China's investment in foreign agricultural projects is booming, according to statistics peddled by Chinese agricultural officials during "Belt and Road" summit held in Beijing.
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Palm oil development leaves Liberians poorer, says winner of 'Green Nobel' Reuters | 30 Apr 2019
Palm oil plantations in Liberia are billed as bringing jobs and development but actually leave locals poorer, said a Liberian lawyer who won the prestigious Goldman Environmental Prize on Monday.
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Lawyer forced to flee Liberia hopes to return after Goldman prize win Guardian | 29 Apr 2019
Two years ago Alfred Brownell was forced to flee Liberia after a successful campaign against a foreign palm oil plantation led to death threats and intimidation
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Liberia : le développement de l’huile de palme ne profite pas aux populations locales Agence Ecofin | 02 mai 2019
Au Liberia, l’essor des plantations de palmier à huile n’a pas permis d’améliorer les conditions de vie des populations locales, selon Alfred Brownell, récipiendaire du Prix Goldman pour l’environnement 2019.
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Les producteurs de pomme de terre de la zone des Niayes dénoncent la concurrence déloyale de Senegindia SA Teranga News | 26 avr 2019
« L’Etat du Sénégal, en plus d’avoir donné des terres aux indiens, subventionne ces derniers à hauteur de 9 milliards de fcfa », dénonce le porte-parole des exploitants sénégalais des Niayes
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Des milliers d'indigènes revendiquent leurs droits à Brasilia AFP | 25 avr 2019
Plusieurs milliers de représentants de tribus autochtones du Brésil étaient rassemblés mercredi en plein coeur de Brasilia, déterminés à faire valoir leur droit à la terre face à un gouvernement Bolsonaro ouvertement hostile.
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