At a week-long camp held in Kassanda district, members of the informal Alliance for victim communities of irresponsible land investments have resolved to use any available opportunity at their disposal to re-build a new life.
- Witness Radio
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04 July 2023
1MT Nation OU, which restores lands in Africa and develops carbon credits, has set a mission to restore at least one million hectares of land by 2030 by planting local bamboo species.
- Baltic Times
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19 June 2023
A petroleira TotalEnergies aterrissa no Brasil no setor de energia eólica com um histórico de greenwashing, expulsão de cidades inteiras e investimentos em combustíveis fósseis no continente africano.
The criminal trial of two community land rights defenders and eight farmers of Nyamuntende Village in Kiryandongo district for allegedly threatening violence against land grabbers’ laborers is set to begin tomorrow.
- Witness Radio
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13 February 2023
Great seasons SMC Limited is one of the multinationals that have forcefully evicted thousands of local people and criminalized activities of smallholder farmers resisting illegal evictions in the Kiryandongo district.
- Witness Radio
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17 January 2023
The case of a community land rights defender in Mubende district forced to buy food for a family of 13 people for the last five years.
- Witness Radio
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13 January 2023
A Ugandan villager is in a three-way legal battle for ownership of land with a sugar company that wants to expand its plantations and the National Forestry Authority, which says it is part of a forest reserve.
The insatiable thirst for carbon credit schemes has left many smallholder farmer communities in Uganda grappling with the life-threatening effects of violent land grabs
- Witness Radio
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17 October 2022
The oil palm plantations of BIDCO, a company partially owned by Wilmar, in Kalangala Island, Uganda, generated devastating impacts. But the company's plans to expand to Buvuma Island are met with organized opposition!
Elite Agro of UAE starts aquiring land for tea production and processing in Uganda
- TND News
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16 September 2022
As foreign agribusinesses take over Kiryandongo communities’ fertile land, other local investors are also eyeing the remaining land occupied by the poor families in the southwestern district of Uganda to grab their land.
- Witness Radio
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09 September 2022
Canada's Blended Finance Project interviews Witness Radio and GRAIN about the role public development banks play in facilitating land grabs around the world.