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Inability to resolve Cambodia’s land disputes tied to official complicity: Minister of Interior

Cambodia’s government is unable to resolve the country’s myriad land disputes because many of them involve senior officials, Minister of Interior Sar Kheng said in a rare acknowledgement
World Bank’s IFC pumped $1.8b into factory farming operations since 2010

Over the past 10 years, the World Bank’s private investment arm has sunk more than $1.8 billion into major livestock and factory farming companies across the world.
Groups demand financial, human rights probes into palm conglomerate Korindo

Activists have called for a financial probe into the Korindo Group, a conglomerate that paid a $22 million “consultancy fee” for the permits to expand its oil palm operations in Indonesia’s Papua province.
Mali/terres : un activiste menacé

Au Mali, Massa Koné défend les communautés de paysans qui sont expulsées de leur terrains. Son engagement lui vaut aujourd’hui d’être menacé. Il s’est décidé, néanmoins, à poursuivre le combat. Portrait.
‘They took it over by force’: Corruption and palm oil in Sierra Leone

The massive Socfin oil palm plantation operation is one of post-war Sierra Leone’s biggest investments and one of its most controversial.
How the legacy of colonialism built a palm oil empire

Socfin, a Belgian holding company that operates palm oil and rubber plantations through dozens of subsidiaries across Africa and Southeast Asia, has been rebuked for alleged human rights violations at its plantations.
‘If they take our lands, we’ll be dead’: Cameroon village battles palm oil giant

Mbonjo sits in the heart of Cameroon’s country’s largest oil palm and rubber-producing region and owned by the Belgian holding company Socfin.
Cambriolage, et menace sur le défenseur des droits l’homme, Massa Koné et sa famille

Selon la Convergence malienne contre les accaparements de terres cette agression au domicile de son porte-parole visait soit de «l’enlever ou de l’assassiner ».
Portant interdiction des terres communautaires par Feronia au Congo

Le RIAO-RDC est très préoccupé de la vente/transfert de la majorité des actifs de Feronia-PHC par la banque de développement de la Grande-Bretagne à une entité à l’Île de Maurice gérer par une société de capital-investissement.
The Consultant: Why did a palm oil conglomerate pay $22m to an unnamed ‘expert’ in Papua?

A Korean conglomerate paid $22 million to an “expert” to help it get land in Papua for oil palm plantations, at the heart of the largest rainforest left in Asia.

Inability to resolve Cambodia’s land disputes tied to official complicity: Minister of Interior

Cambodia’s government is unable to resolve the country’s myriad land disputes because many of them involve senior officials, Minister of Interior Sar Kheng said in a rare acknowledgement

07 Jul 2020 RFA

World Bank’s IFC pumped $1.8b into factory farming operations since 2010

Over the past 10 years, the World Bank’s private investment arm has sunk more than $1.8 billion into major livestock and factory farming companies across the world.

07 Jul 2020 Mongabay

Nigeria: Cross River communities threaten legal action over alleged land grabbing

Communities in Cross River State have kicked against the exclusion of women in community land rights and the continuous marginalisation by multinational companies.

07 Jul 2020 Guardian

Groups demand financial, human rights probes into palm conglomerate Korindo

Activists have called for a financial probe into the Korindo Group, a conglomerate that paid a $22 million “consultancy fee” for the permits to expand its oil palm operations in Indonesia’s Papua province.

07 Jul 2020 Mongabay

Urgent concern for the safety of land and human rights defenders

Civil Society Organzation from various regions in Indonesia and International letter contains urgent concern for the safety of land and human rights defenders impacted by the Korindo Group and POSCO International, Indonesia.

05 Jul 2020 Pusaka

Mali/terres : un activiste menacé

Au Mali, Massa Koné défend les communautés de paysans qui sont expulsées de leur terrains. Son engagement lui vaut aujourd’hui d’être menacé. Il s’est décidé, néanmoins, à poursuivre le combat. Portrait.

04 Jul 2020 TV5Monde

Lawyers for land evicted communities in Kiryandongo District have been charged and released on bond

The forceful evictions are being carried out by three (3) multinational companies namely; Agilis Partners, Great Season and Kiryandongo Sugar Limited without court actions.

02 Jul 2020 Witness Radio

In a Post-COVID world govt must drop plans for bankable customary land

With the COVID-19 pandemic still expanding across the globe, ACT NOW is urging the PNG government to drop its plans to put customary land into the hands of commercial banks. The COVID-19 crisis has demonstrated once again that customary land is a vital and irreplaceable resource for families and communities.

02 Jul 2020 ACTNow PNG

Les paysans trinquent, hommes d’affaires, leaders politiques et chefs religieux jouissent

Le différend entre Babacar Ngom de Sedima Group et les populations de Ndingler n’est qu’une dernière affaire d’une longue liste de révoltes de populations privées de leurs terres au Sénégal

01 Jul 2020 Sud Online

‘They took it over by force’: Corruption and palm oil in Sierra Leone

The massive Socfin oil palm plantation operation is one of post-war Sierra Leone’s biggest investments and one of its most controversial.

01 Jul 2020 Mongabay

The dangers lurking between the lines of the US-Sri Lanka MCC compact

Nationalists want land issues to be handled independently by Sri Lanka because of fears that the MCC will be used to grab land for foreign investments, as has happened in Africa.

30 Jun 2020 Daily Express

Cambodia urged to rethink Chinese ties, land policies to recover from pandemic

People's Coalition on Food Sovereignty, GRAIN, and Ponlok Khmer urged the government of Cambodia to return disputed land from Chinese company Hengfu Group Sugar Industry to the Khmer and Indigenous Kuy communities. The groups expressed solidarity with the Indigenous Kuy people who continue to assert their legitimate land rights even amid the global health crisis.

29 Jun 2020 PCFS

Guatemala: Alertan sobre el acaparamiento de tierras y su impacto en las mujeres

El informe, titulado “Acaparamiento de Tierras en Guatemala: una mirada desde los derechos humanos y los feminismos críticos de América Latina” fue presentado ayer, viernes, en una mesa redonda online y en el marco del Fórum Social Mundial de las Economías Transformadoras.

27 Jun 2020 Rebelión

Brasil: Cientistas mapeiam grilagem em florestas públicas na Amazônia

Dos 49,8 milhões de hectares de florestas sob responsabilidade estadual e federal, 11,6 milhões de hectares foram declarados irregularmente como imóveis rurais, de uso particular, no Sistema Nacional de Cadastro Ambiental Rural.

27 Jun 2020 IHU

How the legacy of colonialism built a palm oil empire

Socfin, a Belgian holding company that operates palm oil and rubber plantations through dozens of subsidiaries across Africa and Southeast Asia, has been rebuked for alleged human rights violations at its plantations.

26 Jun 2020 Mongabay

‘If they take our lands, we’ll be dead’: Cameroon village battles palm oil giant

Mbonjo sits in the heart of Cameroon’s country’s largest oil palm and rubber-producing region and owned by the Belgian holding company Socfin.

26 Jun 2020 Mongabay

Cambriolage, et menace sur le défenseur des droits l’homme, Massa Koné et sa famille

Selon la Convergence malienne contre les accaparements de terres cette agression au domicile de son porte-parole visait soit de «l’enlever ou de l’assassiner ».

26 Jun 2020 Le Combat

Portant interdiction des terres communautaires par Feronia au Congo

Le RIAO-RDC est très préoccupé de la vente/transfert de la majorité des actifs de Feronia-PHC par la banque de développement de la Grande-Bretagne à une entité à l’Île de Maurice gérer par une société de capital-investissement.

26 Jun 2020 RIAO-RDC

Burkina Faso : Dix organisations de la société civile plaident pour un développement rural durable et inclusif

Les terres des paysans ne sont pas protégées contre l’accaparement par les grandes entreprises de l’agro-business selon les organisations membres du Programme de souveraineté alimentaire et droits citoyens des unités familiales au Nord et au Centre-Nord du Burkina Faso

25 Jun 2020 LeFaso.net

Selling out West Papua

A video investigation on allegations of fraud and human rights abuses in billion-dollar land deals in West Papua, Indonesia to develop oil palm plantation.

25 Jun 2020 Al Jazeera

Brasil: Compra de terras em larga escala por investidores estrangeiros eleva desmatamento em zonas tropicais, diz estudo

Aquisições de terras em larga escala — que cobrem pelo menos 200 hectares — contribuem para a destruição das florestas tropicais.

25 Jun 2020 IHU

Nigeria: Deforestation, land grabbing on the rise in Cross River

Environmental Right Action/ Friends of the Earth, ERA/FoEN have asserted that the incident of land grabbing and deforestation was becoming increasingly alarming in various Cross River communities.

25 Jun 2020 Vanguard

The Consultant: Why did a palm oil conglomerate pay $22m to an unnamed ‘expert’ in Papua?

A Korean conglomerate paid $22 million to an “expert” to help it get land in Papua for oil palm plantations, at the heart of the largest rainforest left in Asia.

25 Jun 2020 Gecko Project

Indonesian court jails indigenous farmers for ‘stealing’ from land they claim

A court in Indonesia has sentenced two indigenous farmers to eight and 10 months in prison for harvesting palm fruit from land whose ownership is contested by the community and a palm oil firm, PT Hamparan Masawit Bangun Persada. The ruling appeared to ignore evidence showing that the villagers are the rightful owners of the land

23 Jun 2020 Mongabay

Ukrainian farmers to enjoy preferential terms for farmland acquisition.

Farmers to receive preferential terms for farmland acquisition after the land market is introduced and local governments will be granted authority to manage the lands of local communities outside the settlements.

23 Jun 2020 UNIAN