Front Line Defenders launches urgent appeal over attacks against staff of the Congolese organisation RIAO-DRC and community leaders involved in land conflict with PHC-FERONIA.
- Front Line Defenders
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25 September 2019
Croatia will soon submit a request to the European Commission to extend a seven-year moratorium on the sale of agricultural land to foreigners.
- Euractiv
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25 September 2019
Palm oil plantations in Indonesia and commercial fruit orchards in the Philippines have uprooted indigenous people and rural communities from their land, despite laws put in place to protect them, human rights groups said.
- Reuters
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24 September 2019
Auditors wrote down the value of Harvard's Brazil farm project by about $200 million after the endowment decided to exit the development in 2017, according to documents filed in a lawsuit.
- Bloomberg
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24 September 2019
New investigation by Global Witness uncovers more than 300 banks and investors back six of the world’s most harmful agribusinesses to the tune of $44bn.
- Global Witness
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23 September 2019
A proposed land market model envisages that only Ukrainians and Ukrainian companies will have the right to buy and sell land, President Volodymyr Zelensky has said.
- Ukraine Today
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23 September 2019
In response to the petition published by the World Rainforest Movement, Olam wants to correct the factual inaccuracies and to strongly refute the false allegations made about our oil palm operations in Gabon.
Global Witness exposes how more than 300 banks and investors back six of the world’s most harmful agribusinesses to the tune of $44bn
- Global Witness
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23 September 2019
Twenty-seven concessions intended for industrial oil palm plantations in West and Central Africa have either failed or been abandoned in the last decade.
- Mongabay
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23 September 2019
The Indonesian government is failing to protect the rights of Indigenous peoples who have lost their traditional forests and livelihoods to oil palm plantations in West Kalimantan and Jambi provinces, according to a new report released by Human Rights Watch.
- Human Rights Watch
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22 September 2019
Leah Soroka, program manager for Eastern Europe and central Asia agri-finance with the World Bank's IFC, said the President's proposal to privatise farmland would be a game-changer.
- Producer
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20 September 2019
A new report on the state of industrial oil palm plantations in Africa shows how communities are turning the tide on a massive land grab in the region