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Land ownership questioned

Canadian alternative asset value expert argues that farmers should stop thinking they need to own their land as this is better left to asset managers and institutional investors, like pension funds and private equity groups
Thaïlande : plus de 700 familles cambodgiennes pourront poursuivre une usine de sucre

Le tribunal civil de Bangkok a accordé à plus de 700 familles cambodgiennes le droit de se joindre à une action collective contre Mitr Phol, le plus grand producteur de sucre de Thaïlande, dont les activités au Cambodge ont conduit à l’expulsion forcée de familles en 2008 et 2009.
Uganda: Agilis Partners evictees are being evicted again from their temporary shelter

More than 100 families that are part of thousands of families evicted by Agilis Partners are facing fresh eviction from where they temporarily settled.
Fields of gold: Financing the global land rush

In her new book, Fields of Gold, Madeleine Fairbairn critically examines the history, ideas, and political struggles surrounding the financialization of farmland.
Le nombre d'assassinats de militants pour la défense de la terre et de l'environnement en une année a été plus élevé que jamais, s’alarme Global Witness

Selon Global Witness, 212 défenseurs des droits à la terre ont été tuées en 2019. Si le secteur minier a été le plus meurtrier, l'agroalimentaire reste une menace, en particulier en Asie où se sont déroulées 80 % des attaques liées à l'agroalimentaire.
Defending tomorrow: The climate crisis and threats against land and environmental defenders

Global Witness annual report into the killings of land and environmental defenders in 2019 shows the highest number yet have been murdered in a single year. 212 land and environmental defenders were killed in 2019 – an average of more than four people a week.
Afrique: mais qui est propriétaire de cette parcelle?

Derrière cette question simple, il y a le conflit entre les droits nationaux et les droits coutumiers, la problématique de l'accaparement des terres, de leur gestion.
Victory for peasant and civic movements! ProSAVANA officially ended

Sayaka Funada-Classen reports that the Japanese and Mozambican governments have announced the termination of ProSAVANA, a huge victory for Mozambican peasant movements and tri-national peoples solidarity
Elite Agro and Khalifa Fund sign MoU

Elite Agro has signed a two-year Memorandum of Understanding with Khalifa Fund for Enterprise Development to manage and operate a number of farms in the UAE
Privatisation 'wave' hurts poor as pandemic heightens risks

A push to privatise land and other resources in countries from Ukraine to Papua New Guinea is hurting indigenous people and the rural poor, while increasing the risks linked to climate change.

Farmers walk from N. Sumatra to Jakarta to demand Jokowi settle land dispute

Some 170 farmers have walked 1,812 kilometers from their hometown in North Sumatra, Indonesia to the capital city to demand to the President to settle a land dispute with state-owned plantation company that evicted them from their farmland.

11 Aug 2020 Jakarta Post

Why I stand for my tribe’s forest: It gives us food, culture, and life (commentary)

On the occasion of International Indigenous Peoples Day August 9, Arkilaus Kladit, a member of the Knasaimos-Tehit people in West Papua Province, Indonesia, writes about the importance of his tribe’s customary forests and the fight to protect it from logging and palm oil.

08 Aug 2020 Mongabay

Probe begins into alleged deforestation by Olam, ‘world’s largest farmer’

An investigation is carried out into whether Singapore-based agribusiness giant Olam deforested more than 25,000 hectares (62,000 acres), in contravention of sustainability criteria it had signed up to, in order to develop oil palm plantations in Gabon.

07 Aug 2020 Mongabay

Land ownership questioned

Canadian alternative asset value expert argues that farmers should stop thinking they need to own their land as this is better left to asset managers and institutional investors, like pension funds and private equity groups

06 Aug 2020 Western Producer

Ghana : GREL pourrait perdre son investissement de 550 000 euros

Ghana Rubber Estate Limited, la filiale ghanéenne de la Société Internationale de Plantations d’Hévéas, pourrait perdre 550 000 euros d’investissement réalisé sur sa plantation de 2010 à 2020, si les mineurs illégaux, ou opérateurs «galamsey», ne sont pas chassés de la propriété de l’entreprise, déclare un directeur de GREL

06 Aug 2020 Afrik.com

Cambodians, activists cheer Thai court’s move to allow lawsuit against Asia’s largest sugar firm

A Bangkok court ruled that about 3,000 Cambodians could proceed with a class-action suit against Mitr Phol, the world’s fourth-largest sugar producer. Farmers in Oddar Meanchey province are seeking compensation after the Cambodian government allocated land to the company for sugar plantations.

06 Aug 2020 SCMP

Togo : Des entreprises pour aménager plus de 8 000 hectares de terres agricoles

Un décret a été pris en conseil des ministres en février 2019 pour contraindre « tout propriétaire d'un fonds de terres rurales à le mettre en valeur sous peine de voir attribuer son exploitation à toute personne qui en fait la demande »

04 Aug 2020 Togo First

Mozambican farmer questions Japan-led support project

A farmer in Mozambique pointed to issues related to a Japan-led project to support agriculture in the southern African country that ended last month.

04 Aug 2020 Nippon

Thaïlande : plus de 700 familles cambodgiennes pourront poursuivre une usine de sucre

Le tribunal civil de Bangkok a accordé à plus de 700 familles cambodgiennes le droit de se joindre à une action collective contre Mitr Phol, le plus grand producteur de sucre de Thaïlande, dont les activités au Cambodge ont conduit à l’expulsion forcée de familles en 2008 et 2009.

31 Jul 2020 Pressenza

Thai Appeal Court decision paves the way for Asia’s first transboundary class action on human rights abuses

Today, Cambodian plaintiffs representing more than 700 farming families won a landmark appeal allowing them to move forward with their class action against Asia’s largest sugar producer, Mitr Phol. The transboundary class action Hoy Mai & Others vs. Mitr Phol Co. Ltd. is the first of its kind in Southeast Asia.

31 Jul 2020 CCHR

Uganda: Agilis Partners evictees are being evicted again from their temporary shelter

More than 100 families that are part of thousands of families evicted by Agilis Partners are facing fresh eviction from where they temporarily settled.

31 Jul 2020 Witness Radio

Cambodia/Thailand: Court ruling on Mitr Phol watershed moment for corporate accountability in SE Asia

On 17 July 2020, Amnesty International submitted a third-party legal intervention (amicus curiae brief)to Bangkok South Civil Court that grant Class Action Lawsuit (CAL) status to more than 700 Cambodian families who are suing Thai sugar giant Mitr Phol after being forcibly evicted from their homes in 2008-09.

31 Jul 2020 Amnesty International

Fields of gold: Financing the global land rush

In her new book, Fields of Gold, Madeleine Fairbairn critically examines the history, ideas, and political struggles surrounding the financialization of farmland.

30 Jul 2020 Cornell Press

Le nombre d'assassinats de militants pour la défense de la terre et de l'environnement en une année a été plus élevé que jamais, s’alarme Global Witness

Selon Global Witness, 212 défenseurs des droits à la terre ont été tuées en 2019. Si le secteur minier a été le plus meurtrier, l'agroalimentaire reste une menace, en particulier en Asie où se sont déroulées 80 % des attaques liées à l'agroalimentaire.

29 Jul 2020 Global Witness

Defending tomorrow: The climate crisis and threats against land and environmental defenders

Global Witness annual report into the killings of land and environmental defenders in 2019 shows the highest number yet have been murdered in a single year. 212 land and environmental defenders were killed in 2019 – an average of more than four people a week.

29 Jul 2020 Global Witness

Paraguay: Advierten sobre posible intento de legalizar las tierras malhabidas

Mediante un posicionamiento emitido en la fecha la Federación Nacional Campesina (FNC) llama la atención sobre las consecuencias que podría traer la creación de una nueva institución para “sanear y regularizar” la tenencia de la propiedad y la tierra en Paraguay, que llevaría a legalizar las millones de hectáreas de tierras malhabidas que se encuentran en poder de latifundistas.

29 Jul 2020 BASE-IS

Accaparement des terres : le Gabon, dans le top 10 mondial des pays dépossédés

Tout récemment paru, "L’Atlas des Afriques" classe le Gabon dans le top 10 des «pays dépossédés peu à peu de leurs terres», avec plus d’un million d’hectares vendus ou loués.

27 Jul 2020 Gabon Review

Amazon land grabbers are destroying brazil nut groves for cattle pasture

The invasion of large scale cattle breeding in areas inhabited by traditional populations is widespread in the Amazonian area.

27 Jul 2020 Climatechange News

Komnas HAM Papua: Tindakan aparat keamanan perusahaan sawit berlebihan

Komisi Nasional HAM Perwakilan Papua menyimpulkan ada tindakan kekerasan berlebihan dalam kasus kematian Marius Betera, seorang petani di kawasan perkebunan sawit milik Korindo Group di Kabupaten Boven Digul, Provinsi Papua. Marius meninggal pada 16 Mei lalu, setelah bertikai dengan seorang anggota polisi, yang bertugas di kawasan perusahaan itu.

27 Jul 2020 VoA Indonesia

Deforestación, acaparamiento y ganadería en la Amazonía colombiana

El principal causante de la deforestación en la Amazonía es el acaparamiento de tierras, para lo cual, la ganadería es su mejor instrumento.

27 Jul 2020 Razón Pública

Brasil: Harvard investiu quase meio bilhão de dólares em terras do Cerrado marcadas por conflitos

O fundo de investimentos da universidade norte-americana possui pelo menos 405 mil hectares de terras no Cerrado brasileiro. Muitas fazendas colecionam violações de direitos contra pequenos agricultores e crimes ambientais.

27 Jul 2020 Mongabay

Afrique: mais qui est propriétaire de cette parcelle?

Derrière cette question simple, il y a le conflit entre les droits nationaux et les droits coutumiers, la problématique de l'accaparement des terres, de leur gestion.

27 Jul 2020 RFI

World Bank-backed attempt to commercialize Madagascar’s beef industry falters

SMTP created BoViMa in 2014 with the ambition of capturing the regional market, supplying beef to islands in the Western Indian Ocean. Its plans remained in cold storage for years. In 2017, the IFC stepped in.

24 Jul 2020 Mongabay

Extractivism, exclusion and conflicts in Senegal’s agro-industrial transformation

"The Senhuile land-grab is an ongoing process, whose trajectory will depend on the possibility to construct and strengthen alliances among farmers’ and herders’ groups at local, regional and national levels to ensure recognition of pastoral land rights" says Maura Benegiamo

24 Jul 2020 Taylor & Francis

Victory for peasant and civic movements! ProSAVANA officially ended

Sayaka Funada-Classen reports that the Japanese and Mozambican governments have announced the termination of ProSAVANA, a huge victory for Mozambican peasant movements and tri-national peoples solidarity

24 Jul 2020 Mokai and JVC