UAE companies one of the biggest landowners in Serbia

Elite Agro LLC, registered in Abu Dhabi, recently acquired the 100% ownership in Al Rawafed Holding, thus also becoming the owner of 12,000 hectares of arable land in Serbia and one of the largest landowners in the country.

15 Apr 2019 Serbian Monitor

Dufil consolidates on land acquisition, commences compensation to Edo farmers

Following its acquisition of 17,954 ha from the Edo State government for palm oil cultivation, Dufil Prima Foods has embarked on a crop compensation payment to 1,628 farmers across 14 communities.

15 Apr 2019 Business Day

L’Ong Muyissi environnement sillonne les villages de la Ngounié impactés par Olam

Dans le cadre d'une campagne d’information sur les violences faites aux femmes riveraines des plantations de palmiers à huile, l’Ong Muyissi Environnement organise une tournée dans des villages gabonnais impactés par la multinationale Olam

13 Apr 2019 Gabon Initiatives

Nouvelle forme de colonisation et forte dépendance économique

Au lieu de destiner les terres malgaches à être occupées et exploitées par des Etats, entreprises et individus étrangers venant de pays plus riches, les dirigeants malagasy devraient procéder à l’organisation d’un meilleur accès des Malagasy à la terre dans toutes les régions

13 Apr 2019 Collectif TANY

Procès en diffamation : Vincent Bolloré saisit la Cour de cassation contre "Complément d'enquête" et France 2

France Télévisions a remporté son quatrième procès face à Vincent Bolloré, mais le chef d'entreprise a décidé de saisir la Cour de cassation

12 Apr 2019 Ozap

Successive land attacks stoke fear in Brazil's Amazon

At least six people have been killed in a series of deadly Amazon land conflicts in Brazil, stoking fears of rising violence in the region under far-right President Jair Bolsonaro.

12 Apr 2019 Al Jazeera

Soudan: comment un engrenage économique a provoqué la chute d'Omar el-Béchir

À l'origine des manifs qui ont amené à la chute du reǵime : la hausse du prix du pain, multiplié par trois. Pourtant, le Soudan exporte des produits agricoles vers les pays du Golfe, qui ont pris contrôle de plus d'un million d'hectares de ses terres pour leur propres besoins alimentaires.

11 Apr 2019 RFI

Top Abraaj executives arrested on US fraud charges

Founder and CEO of the firm that was active in the rush to buy global farmland on the heels of the 2008 financial crisis has been arrested for defrauding investors, including the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

11 Apr 2019 Reuters

Indigenous groups warn of 'apocalypse' with Brazil's Bolsonaro

Brazil's Alliance of Indigenous Peoples warned about President Bolsonaro's pledges to allow more farming and logging in the Amazon, and called on the EU to put pressure by refusing import of Brazil's agricultural products unless guaranteed that it's not comes from native lands or violated indigenous people's rights.

10 Apr 2019 France24

Historic legal win against corporate bullying in Paris

This historic case against French corporation Bolloré does more than send a strong signal supporting freedom of the press: it is a recognition of the reality for villagers living in the shade of the plantations of SOCAPALM in Cameroon.

10 Apr 2019 FERN

UK: CSOs call for mandatory human rights due diligence law to make multinationals accountable for abuses

Civil society organisations launching a new campaign calling British government for an effective law to require companies and investors to take action to prevent human rights abuses, worker exploitation and environmental harm in their global operations, activities, products, services, investments and supply chains.

10 Apr 2019 Business and Human Rights Resource Centre

Socfin in Sierra Leone: Anger and broken hopes in Sahn Malen

In 2011, the plantation management company, Socfin opened a new palm oil plantation in Malen, in south east Sierra Leone. The subsequent eight years have seen a grave property conflict emerge between a number of local residents and the company.

09 Apr 2019 Standard Times

Bolloré à nouveau débouté de son action contre France Télévisions

Mais l'avocat des parties civiles a indiqué que ses clients allaient se pourvoir en cassation

09 Apr 2019 AFP

Filippine: a Palawan indigeni minacciati dalle palme da olio

Nella provincia di Palawan, nelle Filippine, almeno 9.000 ettari sono stati convertiti in piantagioni di palma da olio. Causando indigeni privati del sostentamento e contadini indebitati: ecco gli effetti dell'espansione di questa monocoltura denunciati dalla Coalizione contro il land grabbing.

09 Apr 2019 Osservatorio Diritti

Bukanga Lonzo, Africom Commodities reclame 20 millions des USD à la RDC

Les agriculteurs des villages voisins du parc agro-industriel Bukanga Lonzo ont été dépossédés de leurs terres coutumières selon un nouveau rapport de l'Oakland Institute

06 Apr 2019 Mediacongo.net

Jane Goodall Institute’s REDD project in Tanzania

A totalitarian approach to conservation that led to increased inequity, undermining of democracy, and violent evictions

06 Apr 2019 REDD Monitor

RSPO CEO talks sustainable palm oil’s big challenges: Smallholders and Africa

Roundtable for Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) is working to bring sustainable palm oil into the “mainstream”. The RSPO aims to advance production, procurement, finance and use of sustainable palm oil products and not shy away from two key challenges on the horizon: winning over smallholders and African producers.

05 Apr 2019 Food Navigator

Kampong Speu sugar company villagers protest at Land Management Ministry

Nearly 700 people from different communities in Kampong Speu province, Cambodia protested in front of the Ministry of Land Management, Urban Planning and Construction, seeking a solution to their long-running land dispute with three sugar companies.

05 Apr 2019 Phnom Penh Post

Cambodian activist urges authorities to free son, villagers detained amid land dispute

Activist from northern Cambodia’s Preah Vihear province urged authorities to release his son and other villagers who were detained amid an ongoing land dispute. The land dispute stems from 8,520 hectares (21,000 acres) concession granted to agro-industrial company Metrey Pheap Kakse Usahakam Co. Ltd.

04 Apr 2019 Radio Free Asia

Saudi government's agriculture investor buys Australian farmland

Saudi Agricultural & Livestock Investment Co. (SALIC) bought 200,000 hectares of farmland in Australia as the company explores global deals to expand its business.

04 Apr 2019 Bloomberg

DRC must give up plans to establish 22 agro-industrial parks

The collapse of the Bukanga Lonzo agro-industrial park pilot makes it clear that agro-industrial parks are a false solution to the challenges faced by DRC and Africa when it comes to food, agriculture, and poverty alleviation.

04 Apr 2019 Oakland Institute

Livret: 12 tactiques utilisées par les sociétés productrices d’huile de palme pour s'emparer des terres communautaires

Le livret « Promettre, diviser, intimider, contraindre : 12 tactiques utilisées par les sociétés productrices d’huile de palme pour s'emparer des terres communautaires » a été publiée aujourd’hui par le Mouvement mondial pour les forêts tropicales, GRAIN et une alliance d’organisations communautaires et locales unies contre les plantations industrielles de palmiers à huile en Afrique de l’Ouest et centrale.

04 Apr 2019 GRAIN

Booklet: 12 tactics palm oil companies use to grab community land

The booklet “Promise, Divide, Intimidate and Coerce: 12 tactics palm oil companies use to grab community land” has been launched today by the World Rainforest Movement, GRAIN and an Alliance of community and local organisations united against industrial oil palm plantations in West and Central Africa.

04 Apr 2019 GRAIN

The highest bidder takes it all: The World Bank’s new scheme to privatise land in the global south

World Bank is launching an unprecedented attack on the commons by pushing privatisation of customary and public land and its sale by auction to the highest bidder. The land indicator’s Enabling the Business of Agriculture rankings prescribes policy reforms to ease access to land for agribusiness.

04 Apr 2019 Brettonwoods Project

Namibia: How corruption affects women's land rights

Corrupt practices in the context of large-scale land-based investments in Africa contribute to the unauthorised conversion of customary land to commercial land, to the detriment of poor rural women's access

03 Apr 2019 The Namibian

UN’s SABL response due in seven days

The UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination asked the PNG government yet again, to respond to concerns that PNG continues to authorise the exploitation of indigenous land by foreign companies through SABLs.

03 Apr 2019 Post-Courier

Nowhere to go: Myanmar farmers under siege from land law

The Myanmar government has tightened a law on so-called 'vacant, fallow and virgin' land, and farmers are at risk.

03 Apr 2019 Al Jazeera

« Nous avons aussi droit à la vie »

Requête et revendications des femmes vivant autour et à l'intérieur des plantations de palmiers à huile et d'hévéa de la filiale du groupe Socfin/Bolloré (Socapalm) au Cameroun

03 Apr 2019 Synaparcam

Sous-location de terres agricoles: ces Belges qui exploitent les terres picardes

Pourtant interdite, la sous-location de terres agricoles françaises à des exploitants belges se répand dans les Hauts-de-France. Une pratique qui inquiète les autorités et le monde agricole.

02 Apr 2019 Couerrier Picard

One of Africa’s most fertile lands is struggling to feed its own people

Little of the 5 million acres [2.02 million hectares] that Sudan's agriculture ministry estimates are in foreign hands—perhaps less than 1 in 20 acres—has been cultivated.

02 Apr 2019 Bloomberg