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Harvard spent $100 million on vineyards. Now it's fighting with the neighbors

The fight over a vinyard in the foothills of the Sierra Madre Mountains illustrates the risks that Harvard’s endowment once embraced with its unusual strategy of investing directly in massive agriculture projects around the world.
Tanzanian farmers crack the code for fighting land grab

Villages across Tanzania are using legal expertise, political pressure and smart solutions like land mapping to win back plots — and then secure them — from corporations they accuse of using loopholes to grab territory.
Chinese help in agriculture

Officials are tight-lipped about the critical issue of land acquisition in Pakistan by Chinese state-run or private firms for furthering cooperation in agriculture, which was an important feature of the CPEC long-term plan
Cameroun : un combat pour la terre

Combattre. Un verbe plein de sens sur ces rives du fleuve Moungo. Reportage sur le conflit qui perdure entre la SOCAPALM et les paysans riverains.
The global farmland grab by pension funds needs to stop

Money from pension funds has fuelled the financial sector's massive move into farmland investing over the past decade. The number of pension funds involved in farmland investment and the amount of money they are deploying into it is increasing, under the radar.
Saudi Agricultural and Livestock Investment Company closes deal with Mriya Agro Holding

SALIC UK Ltd and Mriya Farming PLC have completed the deal to acquire a majority of the Mriya Group's Ukrainian farming assets, including infrastructure facilities, machinery, and companies holding land lease agreements.
German bank caught in DRC colonial land dispute

A German state-owned bank has found itself at the centre of a battle in the Democratic Republic of Congo over agricultural land dating back to the Belgian colonial period
Bénin : mobilisation des paysans ouest-africains pour l’accès sécurisé à la terre, l’eau

Samedi 10 novembre 2018, les organisations paysannes du Bénin étaient devant la presse nationale : « Par la caravane, nous voulons crier notre ras-le-bol à nos dirigeants pour qu’ils cessent de faire le jeu des multinationales contre les intérêts des paysans ».
Accord en vue en Europe sur la surveillance des investissements étrangers

L'Union européenne va créer un mecanisme de surveillance des investissements directs étrangers en Europe, y compris les rachats et locations de terres agricoles.
Court orders oil palm company to return land and pay arrears of rent to landowners in Sierra Leone

The High Court of Sierra Leone has ordered bailiffs to return 41,582 hectares of land leased to Sierra Leone Agriculture Ltd to communities in Bureh, Kasseh, and Maconteh Chiefdoms in Port Loko District in northern Sierra Leone.

Harvard spent $100 million on vineyards. Now it's fighting with the neighbors

The fight over a vinyard in the foothills of the Sierra Madre Mountains illustrates the risks that Harvard’s endowment once embraced with its unusual strategy of investing directly in massive agriculture projects around the world.

15 Nov 2018 Bloomberg

Foreign investor rules questioned in Riverina agribusiness sale

A group of Riverina farmers is demanding answers from the federal government over the sale of BFB, a large diversified agribusiness in Temora, which is being sold by a US private equity investor to a Canadian pension fund.

14 Nov 2018 QCL

Researchers ask government to grant more land to farmers

The Centre for Policy Studies wants the Cambodian government to allocate cancelled Economic Land Concessions to farmers.

14 Nov 2018 Khmer Times

Tanzanian farmers crack the code for fighting land grab

Villages across Tanzania are using legal expertise, political pressure and smart solutions like land mapping to win back plots — and then secure them — from corporations they accuse of using loopholes to grab territory.

14 Nov 2018 OZY

Chinese help in agriculture

Officials are tight-lipped about the critical issue of land acquisition in Pakistan by Chinese state-run or private firms for furthering cooperation in agriculture, which was an important feature of the CPEC long-term plan

14 Nov 2018 Dawn

Cameroun : un combat pour la terre

Combattre. Un verbe plein de sens sur ces rives du fleuve Moungo. Reportage sur le conflit qui perdure entre la SOCAPALM et les paysans riverains.

13 Nov 2018 TV5MONDE

Sierra Leone ruling against palm oil company will empower communities - campaigners

The decision marks the first time in Sierra Leone's history that a community has been able to win back land leased to a foreign company

13 Nov 2018 Reuters

L’accaparement des terres perpétré par les fonds de pension dans le monde doit cesser

Depuis une dizaine d’années, l’argent des fonds de pension alimente un énorme investissement dans les terres agricoles. Le nombre de fonds de pension investissant dans les terres agricoles et les sommes d’argent déployées à cette fin sont en augmentation, mais tout se fait discrètement.

13 Nov 2018 GRAIN

The global farmland grab by pension funds needs to stop

Money from pension funds has fuelled the financial sector's massive move into farmland investing over the past decade. The number of pension funds involved in farmland investment and the amount of money they are deploying into it is increasing, under the radar.

13 Nov 2018 GRAIN

Des villageois veulent faire plier une multinationale

En RDC, neuf communautés villageoises ont déposé plainte contre la société canadienne Feronia auprès de la Banque de développement allemande. Ils dénoncent le vol illégal de leurs terres. On en parle avec Jean-François Mombia Atuku, représentant de RIAO-RDC.

12 Nov 2018 Africa Nº1

Saudi Agricultural and Livestock Investment Company closes deal with Mriya Agro Holding

SALIC UK Ltd and Mriya Farming PLC have completed the deal to acquire a majority of the Mriya Group's Ukrainian farming assets, including infrastructure facilities, machinery, and companies holding land lease agreements.

12 Nov 2018 Reuters

German bank caught in DRC colonial land dispute

A German state-owned bank has found itself at the centre of a battle in the Democratic Republic of Congo over agricultural land dating back to the Belgian colonial period

12 Nov 2018 AFP

Include land-related repression in Cambodia probe, UN rights envoy urged

Groups call on UN Special Rapporteur to look into the recent spate of alleged cases of state-perpetrated harassment of peasants and indigenous peoples struggling for their right to land in her review of the human rights situation in Cambodia.

12 Nov 2018 PCFS

Preah Vihear villagers summoned to court for ‘detaining’ bulldozer

two NGO staff and 10 Kuoy indigenous villagers were summoned to court following land dispute in Preah Vihear, Cambodia with two Chinese companies that were clearing the land in dispute with the villagers back in December 2014. Some 300 villagers stopped about six bulldozers operated by the companies.

12 Nov 2018 Phnom Penh Post

Bénin : mobilisation des paysans ouest-africains pour l’accès sécurisé à la terre, l’eau

Samedi 10 novembre 2018, les organisations paysannes du Bénin étaient devant la presse nationale : « Par la caravane, nous voulons crier notre ras-le-bol à nos dirigeants pour qu’ils cessent de faire le jeu des multinationales contre les intérêts des paysans ».

11 Nov 2018 Banouto

China's major agricultural province shares wisdom with B&R countries

A group of 30 trainees from Kyrgyzstan's agriculture sector were in Puyang to exchange ideas and seek business opportunities with Chinese enterprises, with more than 10 potential agreements being reached.

11 Nov 2018 Xinhua

Accord en vue en Europe sur la surveillance des investissements étrangers

L'Union européenne va créer un mecanisme de surveillance des investissements directs étrangers en Europe, y compris les rachats et locations de terres agricoles.

09 Nov 2018 Les Echos

Court orders oil palm company to return land and pay arrears of rent to landowners in Sierra Leone

The High Court of Sierra Leone has ordered bailiffs to return 41,582 hectares of land leased to Sierra Leone Agriculture Ltd to communities in Bureh, Kasseh, and Maconteh Chiefdoms in Port Loko District in northern Sierra Leone.

08 Nov 2018 Namati

Au Sahara occidental, l’offensive économique du Maroc

Les autorités marocaines vient d'organiser un grand forum d’affaires à Laayoune, la plus grande ville du Sahara occidental, pour attirer des investisseurs étrangers dans l'agiculture et d'autres secteurs

08 Nov 2018 Le Monde

Laos Rights group demands transparency in case against 10 Lao villagers jailed over land dispute

civil society organization in Laos has called on the government to proceed with its case against ten villagers jailed for more than a year over a land dispute in a transparent manner and demanded an update on their health conditions in prison.

07 Nov 2018 Radio Free Asia

Des communautés de la RDC déposent une plainte auprès d’une banque de développement allemande pour résoudre un conflit foncier centenaire avec une société d’huile de palme

Neuf communautés de la RDC ont déposé une plainte auprès de la banque de développement allemande DEG

07 Nov 2018 RIAO-RDC et al

DRC communities file complaint with German development bank to resolve century-old land conflict with palm oil company

The communities of the DR Congo want a resolution to a land conflict that dates back to the Belgian colonial period with a palm oil company that is currently being financed by a consortium of European development banks led by DEG.

07 Nov 2018 RIAO-RDC et al

When land becomes a global financial asset: The MATOPIBA case in Brazil

How can it be that finance centers in New York or Stockholm exercise control over lands in Northeastern Brazil?

07 Nov 2018 GNRFN

Lancement à Nouakchott de la 2ème édition de la «Caravane ouest-africaine pour la Terre, l’Eau et les Semences »

L’objectif de la caravane est de créer une force de proposition dans les politiques publiques, notamment sur le foncier, l’eau, les semences paysannes, le pastoralisme, la pêche, les APE, la migration dans l’espace CEDEAO, pour défendre les droits des communautés

05 Nov 2018 Kassataya

Terres malgaches et élections présidentielles

Selon le Collectif TANY, une des premières étapes importantes qui devrait figurer dans les projets du prochain président malgache serait d'enlever une phrase de la Constitution en vigueur, adoptée en 2010 sous le régime de Transition, qui ouvre la porte à la légalisation de la vente des terres des ancêtres et à l’expulsion des communautés locales des terres

05 Nov 2018 Collectif TANY