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13 Jun 2019
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Tanzania farmers violently displaced by a REDD+ project have launched a crowdfunding campaign for legal support.
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Investment companies on notice for selling water to struggling farmers in Australia 9news | 12 Jun 2019
Investment companies, such as major farmland investor Duxton, that are making “ridiculous” profits from selling water to farmers struggling with drought are on notice, as the Federal Government considers shutting them down.
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Australia: Super fund reinforces savings with timber, agriculture Financial Standard | 12 Jun 2019
LGIAsuper will diversify its investment strategy and invest in the agriculture and timber funds of Folium Capital, run by former managers of Harvard's endowment funds.
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Touted as 'development,' land grabs hurt local communities, and women most of all Phys.org | 12 Jun 2019
Large-scale land transactions in which nations sell huge, publicly owned parcels to foreign and domestic corporations negatively affect local women more than men, a new study by Oregon State University shows.
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Cambodian farmers take Thai sugar giant to court Al Jazeera | 12 Jun 2019
Two Cambodian sugar farmers are bringing a case against Thai firm Mitr Phol claiming its subsidiary illegally cleared their land.
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Cambodian farmers battle in landmark lawsuit against Thai sugar firm TRF | 12 Jun 2019
The lawsuit against Asia’s largest sugar producer, Mitr Phol, filed on behalf of about 3,000 people, is the first class-action lawsuit filed in a Thai court by plaintiffs from another country against a Thai company operating outside Thailand.
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The nature of social justice advocacy and local resistance to land concessions in Liberia Front Page Africa | 11 Jun 2019
The sustained advocacy by communities affected by large land deals and civil society for change to the policies and laws governing land administration have resulted in departures from the historical norms on land rights and tenure security.
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Investments in farmland in numbers https://www.dw.com/en/investments-in-farmland-in-numbers/av-49045592 | 10 Jun 2019
Investors and foreign states are buying up farmland in many parts of the world. Land is often considered a relatively safe investment, and everybody needs food.
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Efforts to restrict foreign ownership of US farmland grow AP | 10 Jun 2019
As foreign ownership of agriculture land continues to increase, efforts to limit foreign ownership of U.S. farmland have gained traction.
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Human rights defenders face reprisals. Here’s what OECD and National Contact Points can do to protect them. BHRRC | 08 Jun 2019
New research by OECD Watch and BHRRC shows that 64% of reprisals from companies against activists occur in the land-intensive extractive and agriculture sectors.
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‘We come from the earth’: Q&A with Goldman Prize winner Alfred Brownell Mongabay | 07 Jun 2019
The jobs and development promised to rural communities by investors who inked deals with the Liberian government in the late 2000s have failed to materialize in the wake of land disputes and conflicts.
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Reply by the Traditional Council of Okomu Kingdom to the Okomu Oil Palm Company, a subsidiary of SOCFIN. Okomu Kingdom | 17 May 2019
In a letter addressed to SOCFIN's Nigerian subsidiary, Okomu Oil Palm, the Traditional Council of Okomu Kingdom tells the company it will enforce its rightful ownership of the lands that the company currently occupies.
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Au Brésil, les monocultures grignotent la savane et menacent les communautés AFP | 12 jui 2019
121 familles dénoncent l'accaparement de leur territoire par une grande exploitation agricole, Estrondo
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Ces Belges qui cultivent la pomme de terre illégalement dans l’Oise Le Parisien | 10 jui 2019
« C’est de l’agriculture délocalisée, car après, toute la transformation se fait dans des usines de l’autre côté de la frontière », s’énerve un représentant syndical français.
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Face aux revendications de meilleures conditions de travail, l’agro-industriel Olam Gabon se défend Nouveau Gabon | 07 jui 2019
Olam Gabon revendique près de 64 000 hectares de palmiers à huile et 11 000 hectares d’hévéas
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Environnement: Total, Bolloré... la pression sur les multinationales s'accentue! RFI | 06 jui 2019
Le groupe Total et le groupe Bolloré sont dans le collimateur des ONG.
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Etude sur l'impact de la loi française sur le devoir de vigilance et un éventuel traité international, sur l'agriculture des pays du Sud BRRC | 06 jui 2019
Coordination SUD questionne à travers cette note les possibles impacts de la loi et du futur Traité sur le secteur agro-industriel et sur la souveraineté alimentaire dans les pays du Sud
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Rapport de développement insoutenable: Le cas Socfin au regard des communautés locales ReAct | 31 mai 2019
Ce rapport vise à mettre en lumière les nombreux problèmes rencontrés par les communautés riveraines des plantations du groupe Socfin dans 5 pays, en faisant le parallèle avec les engagements pris par le groupe
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