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This Study from the European Parliament discusses the human rights issues raised by large-scale land deals for plantation agriculture (‘land grabbing’) in low and middle-income countries.

We met dozens of families with land circling Dwangwa town in central Malawi, who said they had been driven out to make way for larger, industrial farm-projects.

Booming industry faces allegations of human rights abuses such as land grabs, forced displacement and child labour.

Cambodia has taken a “crucial step towards justice” by launching a reparations program for thousands of villagers who were forcibly evicted to make way for industrial sugar plantations.

PAN Asia Pacific (PANAP) held a forum on the state of indigenous people’s rights with the European Union (EU) Delegation to Malaysia highlighted pressing issues affecting indigenous communities in Sarawak.

The EU is currently witnessing a massive land grab, which has a direct impact on 25 million of its citizens, changing the way lands are being managed and how food is being produced.

Conversation with Maria Antonelli about the main drivers and implications of land transactions around the world, with a particular focus both on the role of EU.

The European Commission started legal action against Hungary over the right of foreigners to buy agricultural land, saying restrictions on such purchases violated the European Union's principle of free movement of capital.

La Commission européenne a mis jeudi la Hongrie en demeure de s'expliquer concernant sa législation qui impose des restrictions aux étrangers en matière d'acquisition de terres agricoles dans le pays.

En las dos últimas décadas este "acaparamiento, por la fuerza, ha arrebatado a sus propietarios legítimos unos 6,6 millones de hectáreas de cultivos" en Colombia, informó Stèphane Compère, en un encuentro con la prensa.

Suspending the imports of sugar and rubber from Cambodia under the EBA arrangement should be the first step that the EU should take until the blatant abuse of human rights is halted.

Un muy claro ejemplo de una empresa europea que justifica el acaparamiento de tierras con argumentos poco creíbles acerca de la energía a partir de biomasa es el de African Plantations for Sustainable Developments (APSD).