Agrinurture Inc. is in talks with the Department of Justice through the Bureau of Corrections over the development of about 2,000 hectares of property into an integrated agri-tourism corn plantation in Palawan, Philippines.
- Manila Standard
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27 December 2019
A little-known company, Camvert, intends to convert 60,000 hectares of forest adjacent to Campo Ma’an National Park into oil palm plantations.
- Mongabay
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25 December 2019
So far dozens have been arrested with one reported fatality among the protestors.
- Oakland Institute
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18 December 2019
Today, the communities of the Ndiaël that fought Senhuile since it arrived are still there. For them, nothing has changed.
Uzbekistan's cluster system is essentially a new form of "hidden" or "secret privatization" in which shadowy firms are assuming the state's long-time monopoly control over the most profitable aspects of agriculture.
- Radio Free Europe
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17 December 2019
Ukrainians are concerned that cash-flush foreigners could snap up one of Ukraine’s agricultural lands, leaving many of the country’s 41 million people forced to work for others on the soil they once owned.
- Bloomberg
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17 December 2019
Traditional authorities of Mbonjo, a village located in Moungo division of the Littoral region, say they have taken enough from SOCAPALM (Société Camerounaise de Palmeraies), whom they accuse of defiling their cultural heritage and landgrabbing.
- Guardian Post
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16 December 2019
On December 13, Friends of the Earth Asia Pacific (FoE APac) launched the new ‘Laws of Land Grabs in Asia Pacific‘ report. This publication is a joint effort of six member countries of Friends of the Earth Asia Pacific under the Food Sovereignty Programme of Friends of the Earth International (FOEI).
- FoE Asia Pacific
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16 December 2019
Nationalist and left wing members of the Sri Lankan parliament are putting pressure on the Gotabaya Rajapaksa government to drastically modify the US-Lanka Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) Compact on land registration
- Lanka Web
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13 December 2019
NGOs from Korea and Indonesia file OECD complaint against POSCO International for causing palm oil abuses
The government has prioritised provision of land to investors, mainly large scale and foreign-based, free of charge or for a nominal sum, under an incorrect assumption that this will result in livelihood improvement for all the people.
- The Independent
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11 December 2019
Tyson Foods, the largest meat processing company in the U.S., will invest in the construction of a modern meat processing complex in Kazakhstan with the Kusto Group, a Singapore-based company involved in beef production in Kazakhstan.
- Astana Times
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11 December 2019