Jane Goodall Institute’s REDD project in Tanzania

• REDD Monitor
• 06 April 2019

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

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

• Food Navigator
• 05 April 2019

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.

Kampong Speu sugar company villagers protest at Land Management Ministry

• Phnom Penh Post
• 05 April 2019

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.

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

• Radio Free Asia
• 04 April 2019

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.

Saudi government's agriculture investor buys Australian farmland

• Bloomberg
• 04 April 2019

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

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

• Oakland Institute
• 04 April 2019

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.

Uganda: Masindi court declines to halt a forceful and ciolent eviction of 2,300 families of their land

• Witness Radio
• 04 April 2019

An independent investigation by witnessradio.org indicates that the foreign-owned agribusiness company Agilis Partners wants to use the 2100 hectares to grow soybeans and other crops.

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

• GRAIN
• 04 April 2019

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.

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

• Brettonwoods Project
• 04 April 2019

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.

Namibia: How corruption affects women's land rights

• The Namibian
• 03 April 2019

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

UN’s SABL response due in seven days

• Post-Courier
• 03 April 2019

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.

Nowhere to go: Myanmar farmers under siege from land law

• Al Jazeera
• 03 April 2019

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