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Brazilian agrarian social movements
- JPS
- 09 October 2015
Journal of Peasant Studies issue focusing on agrarian social movements in Brazil, includes struggles for land.
How a World Bank translator became a hunted man
- ICIJ
- 08 October 2015
Human rights advocates criticize the bank for failing to speak up about the jailing of a former employee in Ethiopia and two other environmental defenders
Staple Crop Processing Zone Kogi: Another form of land grabbing?
- LandJustice4WA
- 08 October 2015
Under the Agricultural Transformation Agenda, Nigeria designed the idea of Staple Crop Processing Zones. Is this a model for the future or just another myth?
Canada: Saskatchewan residents don’t support foreign-owned farmland: survey
- Globe & Mail
- 08 October 2015
Nearly nine out of every 10 people who responded to a Saskatchewan government survey say they don’t want the province’s farmland to end up in foreign hands.
Government of Saskatchewan releases farmland consultation results
- Saskatchewan Government
- 08 October 2015
“The vast majority of respondents do not support pension plans or foreign investors purchasing farmland in Saskatchewan. They do, however, support our government in taking a stronger role in enforcing farmland ownership rules."
Ordinary Zambians grapple with land grabbing
- Deutsche Welle
- 07 October 2015
Zambia's government has courted foreign investors by offering land and large tax breaks as incentives, but this has led to displacement of local people. The lucky few have been paid peanuts as compensation.
Protesters march sgainst land grabs on World Habitat Day
- VOA
- 07 October 2015
Rights groups say the government has failed to give compensation and prevent the victims of forced evictions from being dragged into poverty
Tanzania offers 60,000 hectares for sugar
- East African
- 07 October 2015
The government has allocated 60,000 ha of land for investment in large-scale commercial farming for sugar and rice in the Mkulazi area, 60 kilometres from the Dar es Salaam - Morogoro highway.
Glencore in talks to sell farms in Australia
- Glencore
- 06 October 2015
Debt-burdened Glencore has entered early discussions with a number of sovereign wealth funds and commodities traders as it moves to offload the more than 30,000ha of cropping land across NSW, Victoria and South Australia.
Land “grabbing” grows as agricultural resources dwindle
- Worldwatch Institute
- 06 October 2015
As global agricultural resources shrink or shift, countries are crossing border to obtain new farmlands
International petition to save the malagasy farmers and local communities against new threats to their lands
- Filohan’ny SIF
- 06 October 2015
Platform SIF and Collective TANY call on citizens worldwide to sign a petition to urge the Malagasy authorities to adopt laws which secure farmers and local communities rights on their lands.
Riot on the plantation
- Aljazeera
- 05 October 2015
In Liberia, palm oil has set off a dangerous scramble for land