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04 Nov 2021
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ANZ payment to displaced Cambodian families brings landmark human rights case to a close IDI | 03 Nov 2021
Cambodian families who were forcibly displaced by Phnom Penh Sugar Company have received a promised payment from Australia’s ANZ bank, which financed the sugar company from 2011-2014
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Conference on Land Policy in Africa opens with calls for pro-poor land policies, equal access, and ownership UNECA | 01 Nov 2021
A surge in the purchase of African land by foreign companies and governments to grow food and other crops for export has also set alarm bells ringing on and off the continent.
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Business or pleasure: Bill Gates eyes investments in Turkey Daily Sabah | 01 Nov 2021
Microsoft founder is reportedly looking for 741 acres of farmland to invest in within the borders of Muğla and Aydın, and is said to be in touch with businesspeople and companies in Turkey about the purchase.
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Concerns about ag land sales Progressive Farmer | 01 Nov 2021
Institutional investors and foreign countries alike increasingly see U.S. farmland as a sound investment, raising concerns.
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Uganda: Militarized corporate agriculture companies are resorting to reprisals to grab land Ugandan Land Defenders | 29 Oct 2021
Kiryandongo Sugar Company is using soldiers to carry out retaliatory attacks against community land rights defenders and activists in Kiryandongo district.
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Ugandan activists’ arrest slammed as threat to space for rights defenders Mongabay | 28 Oct 2021
The recent arrests of staff of a Ugandan civil society organization, the Africa Institute for Energy Governance (AFIEGO), have been criticized as an attempt to stifle defenders of human rights and the environment in the country. AFIEGO is one of several organizations involved in defending the Bugoma Forest, which Hoima Sugar Ltd. is seeking to clear large portions of it for a sugarcane plantation.
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