At the end of June, Advance Terrafund owned 23,017 ha of farmland and 13.3 ha of urban land.
RCEP will not just change rules on the export and import of goods and services; it will change how governments decide on rights to land and who has access to it.
This policy brief summarizes detailed research on land conflicts in Uganda's Kalangala and Buvuma islands and recommends steps to the main players to avert them.
Environmental groups argue law sanctioned by Para state governor will benefit land grabbers.
In May, the Bolloré group was summoned to court in France after ten NGOs filed a lawsuit against it
Villagers embroiled in two separate land disputes in Cambodia’s Koh Kong province protested Monday, demanding solutions for their respective cases, one against a home-grown tycoon, the other against a Chinese developer.
- Radio Free Asia
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08 July 2019
Finnfund and the DFI-backed African Agricultural Fund assume majority control of the Sierre Leone oil palm plantations and concessions of Goldtree Holdings and Natural Habitats.
- Michel Mores
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08 July 2019
By buying up US farmland and leasing it to large-scale farm machinery operators, TIAA is closing the door on policies that could revive the more diversified farming that used to underlie healthy local economies.
- ActionAid USA
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08 July 2019
The impoverished state of Bomi County is likely to worsen as many subsistent farmers are at the verge of losing their residential and farm lands to elites, who have since begun land-grabbing spree in the county
- Liberian Observer
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08 July 2019
Des ONG ont déposé plainte contre la banque néerlandaise ING auprès du point de contact des Pays-Bas de l'OCDE, réclamant que le groupe cesse d'investir dans des entreprises de production d'huile de palme qu'elles accusent d'être associées à un accaparement des terres
The land projects envisaged in the agreement to receive US$480 million grant from the Millennium Challenge Corporation of the United States will enhance tenure security and tradability of land for smallholders, women, and firms.
- Daily Mirror
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06 July 2019
NGOs have filed a complaint at the OECD against the Dutch bank ING Group regarding its financing of oil palm companies involved in deforestation (Noble Group), land grabbing (Bolloré Group/Socfin) and child labor (Wilmar International).
- Milieudefense
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05 July 2019