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16 Jul 2020
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Uhuru cracks the whip on Del Monte land row The Nation | 15 Jul 2020
Kenya's President has intervened in a land dispute between Murang’a residents and Del Monte Foods after being pressured by the US government as part of talks around the proposed free trade agreement.
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‘In the plantations there is hunger and loneliness’: The cultural dimensions of food insecurity in Papua The Gecko Project | 14 Jul 2020
A decade ago, the Indonesian government began to heavily promote large-scale plantation in southern Papua. An investigation recently published explored how some outside investors gained rights to the land and the fallout for the indigenous population. Children were suffering from malnutrition while agricultural commodities are exported from their ancestral land.
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Privatisation 'wave' hurts poor as pandemic heightens risks Reuters | 14 Jul 2020
A push to privatise land and other resources in countries from Ukraine to Papua New Guinea is hurting indigenous people and the rural poor, while increasing the risks linked to climate change.
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Real estate’s challenges could push investors towards farmland PERE | 14 Jul 2020
As institutional investors continue to seek “pockets of calm” amid the turmoil, farmland’s resilience during the global financial crisis and the pandemic’s immediate aftermath is likely to be top of mind.
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Communities in West and Central Africa resist industrial oil palm plantations, even in times of Covid-19 WRM | 14 Jul 2020
While palm oil companies present themselves as benevolent donors during the pandemic, communities living in and around these plantations tell another story.
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Preah Vihear court drops charges against villagers Phnom Penh Post | 09 Jul 2020
The Preah Vihear Provincial Court in Cambodia has dropped all charges against eight ethnic Kuoy villagers who were in a land dispute with the Hengfu Group Sugar Industry Co Ltd since 2014.
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Forrests outbid Indigenous group for WA cattle station AFR | 09 Jul 2020
Mining billionaire Andrew Forrest says conservation and heritage considerations must be balanced against the need for farming, after outbiding the Yi-Martuwarra people for a vast land holding on their territories.
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We have decided to focus on production in Latvia, and we have our reasons Baltic Course | 09 Jul 2020
We naively believed that collaboration with farmland investor NCH Capital would be our opportunity for honest business in Ukraine. The complete opposite turned out to be true.
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Pension giant executive’s sky-high pay package angers clients and Brazilian land grab victims Medium | 09 Jul 2020
TIAA is set to confirm a $21 million compensation package for its CEO and a Board of Trustees that has been unresponsive regarding the use of retirement money to grab farmland, destroy forests and violate human rights.
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SAINT-LOUIS – Bataille contre la spoliation foncière : Une histoire de terre Le Quotidien | 13 juil 2020
De Mbane à Dodel, en passant par Fanaye, les mouvements insurrectionnels et de résistance paysans sénégalais constituent les remparts pour conserver un patrimoine foncier qui aiguise l’appétit des multinationales et des hommes d’affaires, à l’image du litige qui oppose Babacar Ngom aux populations de Ndingler.
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Ces scandales fonciers qui ont secoué le magistère de Macky ! Sud Online | 10 juil 2020
Au Sénégal, la forêt de Balabougou a été déclassée sur une superficie de 1160 hectares dans le but de l’érection d’un agropole.
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« Défendre nos droits est devenu un crime » : des paysans indonésiens contre le greenwashing de Michelin Basta! | 10 juil 2020
On parle de « plantations de caoutchouc naturel » mais pour l’Union des paysans indonésiens, il s'agit d'une appropriation à grande échelle des terres par Michelin et ses filiales
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