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In Madagascar, villagers oppose plans for a dam that would inundate their land

Italian company that built a 7,000 ha maize plantation is now behind a dam project that would submerge several villages, forcing hundreds or thousands of people out of their ancestral homes.
Online discussion: Land and corruption in Africa in 3 topics

The discussion will address the role of traditional leaders in customary land administration, forced evictions as a form of land corruption and its impact on women's land rights and an analysis of alternative dispute resolution systems in addressing land corruption.
To AIIB: Stop bankrolling landgrabs

The Peoples Coalition on Food Sovereignty demands the members of the Asian Infrastructure and Investment Bank stop funding projects, especially China’s Belt and Road Initiative, that result in landgrabbing.
Projet Malibya : Paysans et députés veulent conquérir les aménagements libyens

Abandonnés depuis la mort de Kaddafi, des paysans et des députés veulent que les aménagements du projet Malibya (100 000 ha) soient mis à la disposition des nationaux.
Chinese-owned Rifa Salutary farms in Victoria and NSW for sale

Rifa Salutary first invested in Australian agriculture in 2014 and now has 14 properties in western Victoria and northern NSW, with a land area totaling around 44000 hectares.
RCEP trade deal will intensify land grabbing in Asia

RCEP will not just change rules on the export and import of goods and services; it will change how governments decide on rights to land and who has access to it.
Brazil: Amazon state's new law enables land thieves, critics say

Environmental groups argue law sanctioned by Para state governor will benefit land grabbers.
TIAA’s “sustainability reports” can’t paper over the impacts of land grabbing

By buying up US farmland and leasing it to large-scale farm machinery operators, TIAA is closing the door on policies that could revive the more diversified farming that used to underlie healthy local economies.
Des ONG portent plainte aux Pays-Bas contre ING pour son soutien à l'huile de palme

Des ONG ont déposé plainte contre la banque néerlandaise ING auprès du point de contact des Pays-Bas de l'OCDE, réclamant que le groupe cesse d'investir dans des entreprises de production d'huile de palme qu'elles accusent d'être associées à un accaparement des terres
Land projects under MCC - Will ensure tenure security and tradability

The land projects envisaged in the agreement to receive US$480 million grant from the Millennium Challenge Corporation of the United States will enhance tenure security and tradability of land for smallholders, women, and firms.

Livestock Wealth becomes multimillion-rand enterprise

Livestock Wealth started with 26 cows in 2015 and currently manages a herd of around 2000 cattle at four farms across South Africa on behalf of 800 investors from South Africa, Germany, the US, Canada, the UK and China.

19 Jul 2019 ITWeb

Crece la extranjerización de las tierras argentinas desde la gestión macrista

Existen hoy 13.378.912,63 hectáreas que están registradas en manos de extranjeros. En consecuencia, hay recursos naturales estratégicos que quedan dentro de las propiedades privadas sin establecerse un acceso público.

19 Jul 2019 Análisis Digital

In Madagascar, villagers oppose plans for a dam that would inundate their land

Italian company that built a 7,000 ha maize plantation is now behind a dam project that would submerge several villages, forcing hundreds or thousands of people out of their ancestral homes.

19 Jul 2019 Mongabay

Online discussion: Land and corruption in Africa in 3 topics

The discussion will address the role of traditional leaders in customary land administration, forced evictions as a form of land corruption and its impact on women's land rights and an analysis of alternative dispute resolution systems in addressing land corruption.

18 Jul 2019 Land Portal

28 percent of Indonesia’s palm oil landbank is stranded

Report discusses figures and trends in the palm oil industry since 2017 and argues that oil palm development on forest and peatland will remain economically unviable for the foreseeable future.

16 Jul 2019 CRR

To AIIB: Stop bankrolling landgrabs

The Peoples Coalition on Food Sovereignty demands the members of the Asian Infrastructure and Investment Bank stop funding projects, especially China’s Belt and Road Initiative, that result in landgrabbing.

16 Jul 2019 PCFS

China: ramping up investment in African agriculture

Chinese firms investing overseas receive strong financial support from the Chinese government, which sees Africa and agriculture as important to China’s ‘Go Global’ drive

16 Jul 2019 Spore

Projet Malibya : Paysans et députés veulent conquérir les aménagements libyens

Abandonnés depuis la mort de Kaddafi, des paysans et des députés veulent que les aménagements du projet Malibya (100 000 ha) soient mis à la disposition des nationaux.

15 Jul 2019 Bamada.net

Chinese-owned Rifa Salutary farms in Victoria and NSW for sale

Rifa Salutary first invested in Australian agriculture in 2014 and now has 14 properties in western Victoria and northern NSW, with a land area totaling around 44000 hectares.

15 Jul 2019 The Land

Tanzania sets aside 2,000 hectares for investments in cashew nuts industries

Tanzanian authorities said on Friday they have set aside 2,000 hectares of land for investors wishing to invest in cashew nuts plantations and processing industries to add value to the crop.

15 Jul 2019 Xinhua

Bulgaria's Advance Terrafund REIT buys 69.5 ha of farmland in June

At the end of June, Advance Terrafund owned 23,017 ha of farmland and 13.3 ha of urban land.

15 Jul 2019 SeeNews

RCEP trade deal will intensify land grabbing in Asia

RCEP will not just change rules on the export and import of goods and services; it will change how governments decide on rights to land and who has access to it.

15 Jul 2019 GRAIN

Les crimes du «grilagem»: l’appropriation mondiale des terres

Le terme grilagem est plus pertinent que celui d’«accaparement de terres» parce qu’il se réfère à une situation où la loi n’existe pas (aqui não tem lei), ou s’annule dans une situation très similaire à l’instauration d’un état d’exception.

10 Jul 2019 Alencontre

Brazil: Amazon state's new law enables land thieves, critics say

Environmental groups argue law sanctioned by Para state governor will benefit land grabbers.

10 Jul 2019 Al Jazeera

Résiliation d'actes de concession agricole et récupération de plus de 67.000 ha de terres à Brizina

Pas moins de 27 actes de concession agricole ont été résiliés et 67.400 hectares de terres agricoles récupérés dans la commune de Brizina, en Algérie, pour cause de retard enregistré par les investisseurs

09 Jul 2019 APS

Bolivia: INRA dejó de verificar la FES, lo que alentó la apropiación de tierras fiscales

Una mayor “extranjerización de la tierra” está trayendo como consecuencia mayor preponderancia del agronegocio frente a la producción tradicional de alimentos que va perdiendo terreno.

09 Jul 2019 El País

Cameroon's palm oil of discontent

In May, the Bolloré group was summoned to court in France after ten NGOs filed a lawsuit against it

08 Jul 2019 France 24

Two groups of Cambodian villagers protest over land disputes

Villagers embroiled in two separate land disputes in Cambodia’s Koh Kong province protested Monday, demanding solutions for their respective cases, one against a home-grown tycoon, the other against a Chinese developer.

08 Jul 2019 Radio Free Asia

Sierra Leone: Goldtree merges with Natural Habitats Europe Africa

Finnfund and the DFI-backed African Agricultural Fund assume majority control of the Sierre Leone oil palm plantations and concessions of Goldtree Holdings and Natural Habitats.

08 Jul 2019 Michel Mores

TIAA’s “sustainability reports” can’t paper over the impacts of land grabbing

By buying up US farmland and leasing it to large-scale farm machinery operators, TIAA is closing the door on policies that could revive the more diversified farming that used to underlie healthy local economies.

08 Jul 2019 ActionAid USA

Liberia: Report implicates gov’t officials in massive land grabs

The impoverished state of Bomi County is likely to worsen as many subsistent farmers are at the verge of losing their residential and farm lands to elites, who have since begun land-grabbing spree in the county

08 Jul 2019 Liberian Observer

L'Ukraine, un monstre agricole aux portes de l'UE

Les dix premières agroholdings louent à elles seules trois millions d'ha de terre en Ukraine. Elles produisent entre 25 et 30% des céréales et en exportent entre 40 et 45%.

08 Jul 2019 RFI

Des ONG portent plainte aux Pays-Bas contre ING pour son soutien à l'huile de palme

Des ONG ont déposé plainte contre la banque néerlandaise ING auprès du point de contact des Pays-Bas de l'OCDE, réclamant que le groupe cesse d'investir dans des entreprises de production d'huile de palme qu'elles accusent d'être associées à un accaparement des terres

08 Jul 2019 Belga

Au Cameroun, l'huile de palme de la discorde

Pollution des eaux, accusations d'accaparement de terres et de non-redistribution équitable des richesses : une coalition d'ONG camerounaises et françaises s'est tournée vers la justice française pour contraindre le groupe Bolloré à respecter ses engagements.