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Africa Intelligence | 27 Sep 2017
One final straw for the German company which owns 70,000 ha of land in Oromia has put a definitive end to its Ethiopian adventure. |
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Synchronicity Earth | 26 Sep 2017
Cameroonian environmental activist Nasako Besingi was arrested on Monday morning (25th September) in Mundemba, southwest Cameroon, at the headquarters of his NGO, SEFE (Struggle to Economize the Future Environment) |
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RADD | 25 Sep 2017
Urgent request from women in Africa to stop the suffering and the violent impacts the expansion of industrial oil palm plantations is creating on womens´ lives. |
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GAI | 25 Sep 2017
TIAA Global Agriculture Properties has acquired 10 of the 17 properties making up the SAF portfolio totaling 16,000 hectares across New South Wales, and Victoria. |
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MALOA et al | 25 Sep 2017
A caravan of 200 women was stopped by police on their way to Pujehun to urge local authorities to take action against the Luxembourg-based oil palm plantation company SOCFIN for grabbing their lands and committing other related human rights abuses. |
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WRM | 24 Sep 2017
WRM talked with Nina Cynthia Kiyindou Yombo at the Congolese Observatory for Human Rights about what she saw during her visit to the ATAMA operations in the Sangha region of the Republic of Congo. |
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WRM | 24 Sep 2017
There is a large gap between SOCFIN's “responsible management” policy and the reality of violence and destruction around its plantations, where, with the complicity of national governments, the company attempts to suppress people’s resistance. |
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RIAO | 24 Sep 2017
Oil palm plantations managed by the Canadian-based agribusiness company FERONIA Inc have been opposed by local residents ever since they were established |
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IISD | 23 Sep 2017
Swedish investor EcoDevelopment registered a claim at the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes against the Tanzanian government on September 11, 2017 for revoking a land title amid concerns over the impact on local communities and a wildlife sanctuary. |
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SSIR | 22 Sep 2017
Experience in Mozambique with agribusiness investments shows Investors need to better educate themselves about the local context in which their funds are deployed. |
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Bloomberg | 21 Sep 2017
Karuturi Global Ltd., an Indian flower grower, demanded compensation from the Ethiopian government for a series of failed land deals as it prepares to exit the Horn of Africa nation. |
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Beef Central | 20 Sep 2017
Hong Kong based investors who recently took a 51 percent stake in northern NSW export beef processor, Bindaree Beef have plans to further develop their Western Australian grazing property investments, purchased in April last year. |
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China Daily | 20 Sep 2017
COFCO Corp, China biggest agricultural products supplier by revenue, plans by 2020 to see 60 percent of its revenue contributed by overseas markets and control up to 50 million metric tons of foreign grain resources. |
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DW | 16 Sep 2017
“Full speed ahead with the ProSavana!” is the position of the Mozambican government, despite the agricultural project raising a chorus of criticism. |
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Act Now! | 16 Sep 2017
Locals in Bewani, West Sepik Province are paid poorly for their labour on oil palm plantations by logging companies. |
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Bloomberg | 16 Sep 2017
An obscure company’s quest to rebuild a century-old business could lead to the British stock exchange. |
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FERN | 16 Sep 2017
This study highlights the role of European Development Finance Institutions (DFIs) in possible land grabs and questionable forestry projects in Africa. |
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Mongabay | 14 Sep 2017
Under fire from watchdogs and consumers of its smartphones, Samsung said it would not pursue a joint venture with Korindo amid an NGO campaign highlighting Korindo’s rainforest destruction for palm oil in Indonesia’s Tanah Papua region. |
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Ecologist | 08 Sep 2017
In June, Environmental Rights Action/FOE Nigeria and representatives of the Owan and Okomu communities delivered a letter to the Governor of Edo State urging him to uphold a revocation Order on 13,750 ha of land expropriated by Okomu Plc. |
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