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26 Nov 2020
Stop Nigeria's lawless palm oil juggernaut! Sign the petition to support communities in their fight to protect their lands and forests from SOCFIN's subsidiary, Okomu Oil Palm Plantation Plc |
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Chilean investors mull multimillion-dollar ‘agri’ investment Guyana Chronicle | 24 Nov 2020
Although discussions are still in the preliminary stages, CEO of Go-Invest, Dr. Peter Ramsaroop, said the Chileans want to invest heavily in large-scale agricultural projects.
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A new report reveals land inequality is worse than we thought and is fuelling other inequalities ILC | 24 Nov 2020
Global inequality experts blame the upward trend of land inequality partly on the increased interest from corporate and financial actors, such as investment funds, in agricultural land investments.
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1% of farms operate 70% of world's farmland Guardian | 24 Nov 2020
Researchers find control over the land has become far more concentrated both directly through ownership and indirectly through contract farming, which results in more destructive monocultures and fewer carefully tended smallholdings.
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If TIAA’s Roger Ferguson wants to be Treasury Secretary, he should fix his farmland problem NFFC, NAMA, ActionAid | 20 Nov 2020
TIAA is unusual among financial firms for its aggressive pursuit of farmland, paving the way for financial wealth controlled by companies and individuals to takeover and dispossess rural communities of their farmland.
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Ferguson, up for Treasury Secretary, leaves a legacy of misleading claims to social responsibility ActionAid & FOE | 20 Nov 2020
New report reveals finance firm TIAA initiated unprecedented global farmland investments under CEO Roger Ferguson Jr., while undermining human rights standards.
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Elusive Investors keep buying and selling – People remain and suffer BFA | 20 Nov 2020
The struggles continue for the communities displaced by the Addax Bioenergy project in Sierra Leone and their situation is getting worse as the lands are handed over from one company to the next.
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Uganda: Buvuma residents land cleared for oil palm growing before compensation The Independent | 17 Nov 2020
Oil palm growing in Buvuma district has faced slow progress due to irregularities raised by residents including delayed compensations and underpayments that discouraged Bidco Uganda to occupy its nucleus estate.
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Sierra Leone: MALOA calls for credible, impartial audit of SOCFIN Concord Times | 13 Nov 2020
Malen Affected Land Owners Association (MALOA) say they are dissatisfied with the process of Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) to certify Socfin Agricultural Company's operation in Malen Chiefdom.
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Uganda: The criminal trial of the eight land rights defenders failed to take off Witness Radio | 13 Nov 2020
The defenders believe that the charges brought against them are linked to their human rights work of mobilizing and empowering communities in Kiryandongo to resist violent evictions by foreign agribusiness companies.
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Suffering silenced in Sierra Leone FOEE | 23 Oct 2020
SOCFIN's operations in Sierra Leone is one of 5 cases documented by Friend of the Earth Europe to highlight the lack of accountability of European multinationals
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Bruxelles va acheter des terres agricoles dans les deux Brabants : la Région wallonne réagit RTBF | 23 nov 2020
La Région bruxelloise va acheter, "dans les mois et les années à venir", des terres agricoles dans les Brabants wallon et flamand afin de préserver la biodiversité et de favoriser une agriculture locale qui pourrait nourrir une partie de la population bruxelloise
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RDC : l’accaparement des terres par PHC Boteka affecte près de dix-sept villages dans la province de l’Equateur Desknature.com | 19 nov 2020
Menacées par l’insécurité alimentaire de suite du manque des terres, les communautés ne savent plus à quel saint se vouer.
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Projet agro-industriel de campo : Camvert et les populations toujours à couteaux tirés Ecomatin | 19 nov 2020
D’un coût de 237 milliards de FCFA, le projet d’exploitation de 60 000 hectares de terres, continue de rencontrer l’opposition des organisations de protection de l’environnement et des populations.
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Firma hoy para apoyar a las comunidades resistiendo contra la palma por sus derechos afectados por la empresa Okomu Oil Palm Plantation Plc del grupo Socfin en Nigeria |
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Nigeria: arden comunidades por el aceite de palma Salva la Selva | 20 nov 2020
El 20 de mayo de 2020, la comunidad Ijaw-Gbene, al sur de Nigeria, se quemó complentamente. Testigos oculares acusan a las fuerzas de seguridad de la empresa Okomu Oil Palm Plantation Plc (OOPC) de tener responsabilidad en el incendio, junto con miembros del ejército.
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