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Landgrabbing in Sierra Leone: Occupied homeland
- Taz
- 24 June 2023
Foreign investors have been grabbing land from Sierra Leone's small farmers for decades. New laws are now aimed at preventing this.
Development bank mediation between PHC/Feronia and DR Congo communities is off to a bad start, after four years of procrastination
- RIAO-RDC et al.
- 24 May 2023
Groups call on development banks and their governments to ensure that the mediation panel takes steps to rectify the situation.
Après quatre ans d’atermoiements, mauvais départ de la médiation des banques de développement entre PHC/Feronia et les communautés de la RD Congo
- RIAO et al.
- 24 May 2023
Des organisations demandent aux banques de développement et à leurs gouvernements de veiller à ce que le groupe de médiation prenne des mesures pour rectifier la situation
German doctors' pension fund sells stake in highly problematic land fund
- FIAN
- 10 May 2023
After ten years, the Ärzteversorgung Westfalen-Lippe (ÄVWL) has withdrawn from highly problematic land purchases in Brazil through is investments in TIAA-CREF Global Agriculture LLC.
Landgrabbing: Ärztekasse veräußert Beteiligung an hochproblematischem Fonds
- FIAN Deutschland
- 10 May 2023
Die Ärzteversorgung Westfalen-Lippe (ÄVWL) hat sich nach zehn Jahren aus hochproblematischen Landkäufen in Brasilien zurückgezogen
Palm oil and timber giant Korindo backs down in long-running case to silence civil society organizations
- Mighty Earth
- 22 Mar 2023
PT Kenertec Power Systems, a company belonging to the Korindo group has agreed to end a long-running lawsuit intended to silence a civil society campaign to protect rainforest, in Indonesia’s Papua province, threatened by Korindo’s extensive palm oil operations after a judge in Germany set to dismiss the case.
Undermined by violence, a development bank mediation process in the DR Congo requires immediate government action
- Collective
- 24 February 2023
Groups call on European governments to honour their responsibilities to the communities affected by their investments in a DR Congo palm oil plantation by taking action to stop the violence surrounding the mediation process.
Sapé par la violence, un processus de médiation des banques de développement en RDC exige une action immédiate des gouvernements
- Collectif
- 24 February 2023
Les gouvernements européens doivent honorer leurs responsabilités envers les communautés affectées par leurs investissements dans une société d'huile de palme et mettre fin à la violence entourant le processus de médiation.
Germany: Investors buy up farmland- Intervene with the law
- Indo & NY
- 01 January 2023
The Agriculture Minister of the German state of Brandenburg wants to enact a new law to prevent investors from outside the industry from buying up a large part of the agricultural land.
Mediating land rights: The frustrating bottom-up account of the ongoing experience of nine communities in DRC
- University of Antwerp
- 11 November 2022
A mediation process is unlikely to address long-lasting tensions and tenure issues that arise when ‘development’ projects on public lands take over large tracts of ancestral land
After rubber firm deal, Bunong fear broken promises, uncertain land tenure
- CamboJa News
- 04 November 2022
For more than a decade, some Bunong villagers have been trying to reclaim and gain legal recognition for their customary land that have been acquired by Luxembourg-based Socfin Group’s subsidiaries since 2007. Some details of the settlement were released this September, in a joint statement issued by the firms and community representatives who negotiated on behalf of 210 families in five villages.
God's will or ecological disaster? Mennonite deforestation in Mexico
- Reuters
- 12 July 2022
Mennonites are linked to expanding farmland acquisition and deforestation - not always with the right paperwork - in the Yucatan Peninsula