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"Abel Mukalazi (right) and his brother Joshua display documents they say support their claim to land now occupied by a Chinese farm in the Lubenge wetlands in Uganda on August 17, 2019. A local court ruled that the Mukalazis' lease had expired. (Photo: Peter Ford/CSM)
Divest Harvard holds an action in April 2019 to raise awareness on campus of Harvard’s billion dollar land grabs. (Photo: Caleb Schwartz/Divest Harvard)
Tree felling in the Amazon rainforest has increased dramatically since this aerial view was taken five years ago, with 870sq km of forest destroyed last month. Picture: AFP
A banana plantation in the village of San Jose, in the province Mindanao. Hundreds of families from the tribe of Manobo-Higaonon were displaced when their houses were demolished in July 2018 by local security men following a court order in favor of a businessman occupying 307 hectares of their ancestral domain. (Photo: Jeoffrey Maitem / Global Witness)
Joël (left) took part in a meeting between villagers and representatives of DEG, a German development bank. (Photo: RIAO-RDC)
Bastien Moysan et sa compagne Léna, dans une de leurs parcelles où ils sélectionnent des variétés anciennes de blé. (Photo : Basta !)
Villagers from Farihitsara gather near the proposed dam site. Tozzi Green, the Italian company responsible for the hydroelectric project, marked some of the rocks when it did research at the site. (Photo: Edward Carver for Mongabay)
Land given out as oil palm concessions in Indonesia (2018)
Le vœu des paysans et de certains députés est que l’Etat malien revoit les termes du contrat avec la partie libyenne, pour permettra à ceux qui ont besoin d'exploiter les terres de le faire (Photo : Joe Penney / REUTERS)
Residents of the town of Kangaten collect water from the Omo River, which has been blocked by the construction of Africa’s tallest dam. (Photo: Charlie Rosser)
A photo from Karuturi Global’s 2018 annual report taken at the company’s farm project in Gambella, Ethiopia. (Photo: Karuturi Global)
Cambodia sugar farmer Hoy Mai seeking compensation 56-year-old Hoy Mai says she lost her land in 2009 and wants compensation from sugar company Mitr Phol (Photo: Leonie Kijewski/Al Jazeera)
The lawsuit was filed in 2018 and begins hearings on June 12 in Bangkok
Community members look out at land cleared by Malaysian palm oil investor Sime Darby in 2012, Liberia. (Photo: Ashoka Mukpo/Mongabay)
Meeting organised by the Sierra Leone Investment and Export Promotion Agency in Sambuya Town Court Barray in the Lugbu Chiefdom, Bo District with representatives of Sierra Tropical Investment Company, 2016
Alfred Brownell successfully campaigned to halt the clear-cutting of tropical forests for a palm oil plantation in Liberia. (Photo: Leise Jones)
Community members watch helplessly during arrest of their leader, Derlis López. Asunción, Paraguay. (Photo: Matías Newken)
