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Argentina: Colores desunidos de Benetton, otra vez, contra los pueblos originarios: tranqueras en tiempos de cuarentena

El conflicto se generó tras la recuperación que integrantes de pueblos originarios realizaron en la zona de El Mayoco a unos 50 kilómetros de Esquel.

14 Jun 2020 La Vaca

Hentikan proyek cetak sawah/food estate di lahan gambut di Kalimantan Tengah

Lebih dari 160 organisasi dan individu menyerukan agar Pemerintah Indonesia berhenti menggunakan pandemi sebagai alasan untuk mengeksploitasi gambut dan menyatakan sikap menolak dan mendesak diberhentikan proyek food estate di Kalimantan Tengah.

14 Jun 2020 Walhi

Kazakhstan: Activists jailed in criminal probes

On June 6 protesters expressed demands, including a ban on leasing land to foreign companies and the release of political prisoners, such as Max Bokaev, who was imprisoned for peacefully protesting proposed land code amendments.

12 Jun 2020 HRW

Nicaraguan beef, grazed on deforested and stolen land, feeds global demand

Major multinational companies including Nestlé and Cargill may be sourcing Nicaraguan beef from indigenous regions consumed by land grabs, settler occupation and mass deforestation.

12 Jun 2020 Mongabay

Fayemi attracts $50m investment to boost agric sector

Investments include FMS Farms' $10 million starch processing plant and farm in Ikole council area, where it has already commenced farming activities

11 Jun 2020 This Day

Indonesia: Government to develop 165,000 hectares land in Central Kalimantan for food-estate program

The development project will be carried out in conjunction with the State-Owned Enterprise Ministry through an investment scheme.

11 Jun 2020 Jakarta Post

EU to extend ban on sale of Croatian farmland to foreigners

Croatia could experience severe and aggressive land-grabbing attempts by foreign entities at the current stage, particularly when it comes to fertile farmland in the east of the country.

11 Jun 2020 Euractiv

Thailand’s CP Group suspends plans for 6 poultry farms in E. Taiwan

Indigenous villagers have been protesting and fear air and water pollution in their communities

11 Jun 2020 Taiwan News

Mauritanie: un réseau associatif met en garde sur un retour de la gestion du foncier par les gouverneurs

Le Réseau des Organisations de Sécurité Alimentaire demande un moratoire de 5 ans dans l’attribution des terres à tous les investisseurs nationaux et internationaux, pour permettre aux différents acteurs de trouver la meilleure formule qui garantisse un équilibre entre l’impératif de développement agricole et le respect du droit inaliénable à la propriété

09 Jun 2020 Le 360

Palm oil industry leaves Indonesian village struggling with loss and regret

Indonesia sits at the heart of the global palm oil trade. In 2002, one company PT Erasakti Wira Forestama (EWF) offered villagers in Batanghari, Jambi province a one-time payment for their land. Peatlands were converted to plantations — and the repercussions of the decision are still felt today. Some villager

09 Jun 2020 EcoWatch

Groups welcome Feronia’s decision to abandon plantation lands and enable communities in the DR Congo to thrive

The communities have already introduced traditional and artisanal palm oil harvesting and production systems for the abandoned areas.

09 Jun 2020 RIAO-RDC

Des organisations félicitent la décision de Feronia d’abandonner ses plantations pour permettre aux communautés de la RD Congo de prospérer

Après l’annonce de l’abandon de certaines plantations, les communautés ont introduit des systèmes de récolte et de production de huile de palme artisanaux et traditionnels.

09 Jun 2020 RIAO-RDC

&Green Fund commits $10m to Grupo Roncador for cattle, soy, and corn production in Mato Grosso

&Green Fund, with backing from the Norwegian government and Unilever, makes its first investment in a Brazilian farming company that grows soybeans and grains and raises cattle on 50,000 hectares in Mato Grosso.

09 Jun 2020 GAI

US: Western Colorado water purchases stir up worries about the future of farming

Farmers along Colorado's Grand Valley are concerned a New York City-based hedge fund is buying farmland to speculate on water.

08 Jun 2020 Inside Climate News

Unpacking the finance-farmland nexus: circles of cooperation and intermediaries in Brazil

Article examines the processes and actors involved and the connections that global financial capital makes in order to access lands and agricultural production in the Brazilian Cerrado.

04 Jun 2020 Globalizations

Goodvalley acquires production facility in Poland

In connection with the acquisition, the Danish company expands the Group’s arable land bank in Poland through a 20-year lease agreement for 530 hectares of land nearby.

04 Jun 2020 Global Newswire

Ukraine to lift restrictions on farmland purchases by foreigners under condition – Zelensky

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said Ukraine will lift restrictions on farmland purchases by foreigners only after it provides domestic farmers with the opportunity to take loans at low rates.

04 Jun 2020 UNIAN

Environmental conflicts and defenders: A global overview

Bottom-up mobilizations for more sustainable and socially just uses of the environment occur worldwide across all income groups, testifying to the global existence of various forms of grassroots environmentalism as a promising force for sustainability.

02 Jun 2020 GEC

Offshore investors swoop on almond orchards

Funds managed by North American farmland and timber giant Hancock Natural Resource Group are poised to snap up two almond properties worth around $12 million in the NSW Riverina and South Australia’s Riverland.

01 Jun 2020 AFR

Brasil: A história do cerco à Amazônia

A engrenagem do capital esmaga a Amazônia, seus povos, a floresta e seus rios: de um lado, a expansão da soja e da pecuária, unidas à derrubada e comercialização ilegal de madeiras e às queimadas criminosas que “limpam a terra” para o agronegócio

31 May 2020 Amigos da Terra Brasil

Des terres en commun

Le Mouvement Nyéléni pour la souveraineté alimentaire en Europe et en Asie centrale publie un manuel sur l'accès à la terre

28 May 2020 Nyéléni

Your land, my land, our land

Handbook of grassroots strategies to preserve farmland and access to land for peasant farming and agroecology

28 May 2020 TNI

Libéria : La Salala Rubber Corporation (SRC) sous le feu des critiques, 22 communautés se plaignant d'abus

La SRC accuse l'équipe d'évaluation du CAO - mécanisme indépendant de surveillance et de redevabilité de la Société financière internationale de la Banque mondiale - de partialité

28 May 2020 Front Page Africa

Liberia: Salala Rubber Corporation (SRC) under fire, as 22 communities complained of abuses

The complaint to the independent watchdog and accountability mechanism of the Wolrd Bank relates to a series of gross human rights abuses perpetrated against the indigenous people in SRC’s concession areas.

28 May 2020 FrontPageAfrica

Banana farms in Laos sicken villagers, even as they provide steady work

China-invested banana plantations in Laos are sickening Lao villagers exposed to agricultural chemicals.

28 May 2020 RFA

Tu tierra, mi tierra, nuestra tierra

El movimiento de Soberanía Alimentaria de Nyéléni en Europa y Asia Central (Nyéléni ECA) publica hoy una herramienta práctica para apoyar y fortalecer las luchas por la tierra de los pequeños y medianos productores de alimentos y de las comunidades locales.

28 May 2020 Coordinadora Europea Via Campesina

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