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11 Jul 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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Brazil: Amazon state's new law enables land thieves, critics say Al Jazeera | 10 Jul 2019
Environmental groups argue law sanctioned by Para state governor will benefit land grabbers.
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Cameroon's palm oil of discontent France 24 | 08 Jul 2019
In May, the Bolloré group was summoned to court in France after ten NGOs filed a lawsuit against it
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Two groups of Cambodian villagers protest over land disputes Radio Free Asia | 08 Jul 2019
Villagers embroiled in two separate land disputes in Cambodia’s Koh Kong province protested Monday, demanding solutions for their respective cases, one against a home-grown tycoon, the other against a Chinese developer.
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Sierra Leone: Goldtree merges with Natural Habitats Europe Africa Michel Mores | 08 Jul 2019
Finnfund and the DFI-backed African Agricultural Fund assume majority control of the Sierre Leone oil palm plantations and concessions of Goldtree Holdings and Natural Habitats.
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TIAA’s “sustainability reports” can’t paper over the impacts of land grabbing ActionAid USA | 08 Jul 2019
By buying up US farmland and leasing it to large-scale farm machinery operators, TIAA is closing the door on policies that could revive the more diversified farming that used to underlie healthy local economies.
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Liberia: Report implicates gov’t officials in massive land grabs Liberian Observer | 08 Jul 2019
The impoverished state of Bomi County is likely to worsen as many subsistent farmers are at the verge of losing their residential and farm lands to elites, who have since begun land-grabbing spree in the county
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Des ONG portent plainte aux Pays-Bas contre ING pour son soutien à l'huile de palme Belga | 08 Jul 2019
Des ONG ont déposé plainte contre la banque néerlandaise ING auprès du point de contact des Pays-Bas de l'OCDE, réclamant que le groupe cesse d'investir dans des entreprises de production d'huile de palme qu'elles accusent d'être associées à un accaparement des terres
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Land projects under MCC - Will ensure tenure security and tradability Daily Mirror | 06 Jul 2019
The land projects envisaged in the agreement to receive US$480 million grant from the Millennium Challenge Corporation of the United States will enhance tenure security and tradability of land for smallholders, women, and firms.
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Friends of the Earth groups and supporters file OECD complaint against ING for financing palm oil abuses Milieudefense | 05 Jul 2019
NGOs have filed a complaint at the OECD against the Dutch bank ING Group regarding its financing of oil palm companies involved in deforestation (Noble Group), land grabbing (Bolloré Group/Socfin) and child labor (Wilmar International).
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The World Bank lending strategy must aim to place people above profit! Liberian Observer | 05 Jul 2019
As evidenced in Liberia, World Bank support has gone to multinational corporations involved in vicious land grabs that have succeeded in displacing thousands of poor villagers from their ancestral lands
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Socfin Group to invest US$20m in oil palm processing factory in Ghana Food Business Africa | 05 Jul 2019
Plantation Socfinaf Ghana (PSG), a subsidiary of the group, has cultivated a little in excess of 6,000 hectares of Oil Palm that can supply about 40% capacity of their new Factory scheduled to start production before October this year 2019.
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Karuturi Global‘s Ethiopia return stokes fears of deforestation and evictions IDM | 04 Jul 2019
A 15,000-hectare concession awarded to Karuturi Global in Ethiopia’s Gambela region has left locals fearing their ancestral lands will be cleared for agribusiness once again by the Indian firm.
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SRC’s investment faces hiccups Liberian Observer | 04 Jul 2019
The Liberian Observer has reliably gathered that the International Finance Corporation has tabled all SRC’s loan application processes pending full scale investigation into a recent complaint filed against it by 22 indigenous Liberian communities.
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Central Africa’s rainforests and people suffering from the expansion of palm oil and rubber plantations RFUK | 08 May 2019
Investigations carried out by RFUK and its partner organisations find that three plantations in Cameroon and the Republic of Congo are responsible for destroying over 20,000 ha of forest, an area twice the size of Paris.
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Résiliation d'actes de concession agricole et récupération de plus de 67.000 ha de terres à Brizina APS | 09 juil 2019
Pas moins de 27 actes de concession agricole ont été résiliés et 67.400 hectares de terres agricoles récupérés dans la commune de Brizina, en Algérie, pour cause de retard enregistré par les investisseurs
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L'Ukraine, un monstre agricole aux portes de l'UE RFI | 08 juil 2019
Les dix premières agroholdings louent à elles seules trois millions d'ha de terre en Ukraine. Elles produisent entre 25 et 30% des céréales et en exportent entre 40 et 45%.
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Au Cameroun, l'huile de palme de la discorde France 24 | 08 juil 2019
Pollution des eaux, accusations d'accaparement de terres et de non-redistribution équitable des richesses : une coalition d'ONG camerounaises et françaises s'est tournée vers la justice française pour contraindre le groupe Bolloré à respecter ses engagements.
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Les propositions de la société civile pour la réforme foncière au Cameroun LandCam | 04 juil 2019
Le souci de la protection des droits des plus pauvres justifie la demande pour une limitation à 10 ha de la superficie susceptible de faire l’objet d’une immatriculation par un seul individu. Même si cette limite peut facilement être contournée, sa formulation exprime une volonté de contrôler les accaparements de terre par les élites locales.
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