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19 Jan 2023
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Community land rights defenders that have been on trial since 2020 are set to return to court this January Witness Radio | 17 Jan 2023
Great seasons SMC Limited is one of the multinationals that have forcefully evicted thousands of local people and criminalized activities of smallholder farmers resisting illegal evictions in the Kiryandongo district.
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At a rubber plantation in Liberia, history repeats in a fight over land Mongabay | 17 Jan 2023
Communities say a SOCFIN subsidiary used a $10M loan from the World Bank's IFC to turn the forests where they’d farmed and held sacred rituals into a massive rubber plantation.
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Sierra Leone: Living and resisting around Socfin’s oil palm plantations WRM & WONARPI | 17 Jan 2023
Episode 1 of a new podcast that highlights the different layers of oppression women face once industrial plantations invade their territories.
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PLS Plantations formed JV with Japanese companies to cultivate durian farming project New Straits Times | 16 Jan 2023
PLS LESB will partner with Japan's Millennium Agriculture Technology and MyFarm Inc, Japan to develop up to 1,000 hectares of durian plantations in Pahang, Malaysia.
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Ikun Dairy Farm: Ekiti pays N21m compensation to landowners PM News | 15 Jan 2023
Nigeria's Ekiti State government says 263 farming families were compensated for lands that were taken to establish a joint venture dairy farm with the South Africa-based dairy company Promisador.
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Q&A: Foreign ownership of US farmland with US Senator Chuck Grassley Chuck Grassley | 13 Jan 2023
Grassley says young and beginning farmers are increasingly competing with institutional investors, such as pension funds and endowments, who are diversifying their financial portfolios with prime farmland.
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Uganda: How land grabs are causing food insecurity Witness Radio | 13 Jan 2023
The case of a community land rights defender in Mubende district forced to buy food for a family of 13 people for the last five years.
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Guyana offers 200 acres of land for exclusive production of millet Statesman | 12 Jan 2023
The Guyanese president asked India to send a team of experts to set up millets farm in Guyana and promised all help in production and promotion of millets in the Caribbean and Latin American countries
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‘How are we going to live?’ Families dispossessed of their land to make way for Total’s Congo offsetting project Unearthed | 12 Dec 2022
Local farmers say they can no longer afford to send children to school after the oil giant’s 40,000 hectare tree plantation barred them from their fields
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Nigeria: Promasidor, Ekiti State sign pact on Ikun Dairy Farm Famous People | 30 Jul 2019
South Africa based Promasidor Holdings and Ekiti State will jointly pursue the rehabilitation and expansion of the Ikun Dairy Farm, which spans across 1,000 hectares in the Moba Local Government Area.
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Tchad: À Kana, interrogations sur les zones franches prévues par l'État RFI | 18 jan 2023
Au Tchad, la création d’une zone économique spéciale dans la province du Logone Occidental alimente la controverse.
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Polémique autour de la réquisition des terres par le gouvernement tchadien VoA Afrique | 16 jan 2023
Au Tchad, des habitants de la province du Logone Occidental dénoncent ce qu’ils considèrent comme accaparement des terres.
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Logone Occidental: Polémique autour de 3500 hectares réquisitionné par l’Etat dans le Lac-Wey Safi News Tchad | 15 jan 2023
L’Etat tchadien s’accapare de 3500 hectares de terres agricoles pour une ZES. Des jeunes et moins jeunes résistent.
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Le Resac demande la suspension des travaux de bornage de la Zes du Logone occidental DBnews | 14 jan 2023
Dans une déclaration commune, les représentants du Réseau des acteurs du changement des deux Logones, au Tchad, demandent la suspension des travaux de bornage pour une Zone économique spéciale et la réalisation des études d’impact environnemental et social avant la mise en œuvre de ce projet.
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RDC: 50 leaders communautaires emprisonnés depuis octobre 2022 dans les zones de Plantations et Huileries du Congo RIAO-RDC | 13 jan 2023
RIAO-RDC exige la libération des plusieurs autochtones, habitants des villages dans le groupement Mokoso, territoire d'Ingende pour la plantation de Plantations et Huileries du Congo (PHC).
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Derrière le « greenwashing » de TotalEnergies, l’expropriation de paysans au Congo Mediapart | 12 dec 2022
Mediapart dévoile des documents internes au gouvernement congolais et des témoignages prouvant que TotalEnergies s’est approprié des terres d’agriculteurs sans leur libre consentement
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Poscast: Las voces de las mujeres que viven alrededor de las plantaciones de palma aceitera de Socfin en Sierra Leona WRM | 16 ene 2023
La empresa de plantaciones de palma aceitera Socfin ha traído violencia y opresión a varios países africanos. Sierra Leona no es una excepción.
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Más allá de los chats de Lago Escondido: la extranjerización de la tierra en Argentina El Tiempo | 09 dic 2022
Un panorama de cuántos y quienes son los extranjeros que poseen territorio nacional.
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Webinar: A Look at the State of Food Estates
TAPOL, awasMIFEE & GRAIN | Online | 24 Jan 2023
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