Laos’s Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment has estimated that government officials have given more than one million hectares of the country’s total land area of 23.7 million hectares as concessions to foreign investors
A new paper from the International Criminal Court laying out a shift in focus to crimes linked to environmental destruction and the unlawful dispossession of land has rekindled the debate over whether the court will launch an investigation into a case highlighting land-grabbing in Cambodia.
- Phnom Penh Post
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19 September 2016
In the Berry, the heart of French cereal farming in the center of the country, Chinese buyers have been purchasing farmland in order to assure food supplies for their growing population.
- Marketplace
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19 September 2016
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development is lending five million euro to Bulgaria's Elana Agrocredit, a company offering long-term financial lease contracts to farmers seeking to acquire agricultural land.
- SeeNews
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19 September 2016
In change of focus, Hague court will prosecute government and individuals for environmental crimes such as landgrabs
- Guardian
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16 September 2016
The process of selling off the largest flower farm in Naivasha, Karuturi, has kicked off, with a new liquidator moving in.
- The Star
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15 September 2016
Liberia has long been plagued by disputes over land for farming and forestry including double land sales, corporate land grabbing, local disputes over territory, and equal gender access to land.
- Mongabay
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14 September 2016
Frontline communities and social movements around the world explain why we need to keep our hands on the land for food sovereignty and climate justice!
Civil Society members expressing concern over human rights abuses by corporate entities are increasingly being accused of being agents of the political opposition or “anti-development”.
- HRDN-SL
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07 September 2016
Regional advocacy group PAN Asia Pacific (PANAP) joins Filipino peasant groups in condemning the recent killing of four farmers in a military reservation that is the subject of a land conflict.
US giant TIAA's Westchester has purchased a major part of northern NSW cropping farm Milton Downs from Australia's biggest wheat grower Greentree Farming for a figure some estimate to be in the vicinity of $50 million.
Holding the Development Finance Institutions responsible when private sector projects fail. The case of Addax Bioethanol in Sierra Leone.
- Bread for the World
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04 September 2016