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Oil palm project to be extended to other districts
- Observer
- 24 Mar 2018
The Ugandan government is in advanced discussions with the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) to extend the BIDCO oil palm project beyond Kalangala district.
Argentina: Lewis el amigo de Macri investigado por fraude
- El Destape
- 23 Mar 2018
El empresario británico es investigado en la Justicia por la "compra" de 11.000 hectareas.
Peasants of the world, intensity our struggle for land and life!
- APC
- 23 Mar 2018
“Day of the Landless” annual commemoration lead by Asian Peasant Coalition joint by People's Coalition on Food Sovereignty, 'No Land, No Life' campaign of PAN Asia Pacific and Youth for Food Sovereignty, on March 29 this year call for peasants of the world to intensify struggle for land and life.
Legal activism key to securing land rights during new investment phase
- Reuters
- 23 Mar 2018
The fact that fewer new investments are being publicly recorded does not mean we should be complacent. Past deals are now being implemented, and communities are feeling the squeeze. Helping them obtain redress when violations occur is a priority.
Women short-changed on commercial land deals in Africa - report
- Reuters
- 23 Mar 2018
Women are often short-changed compared to men when communities are compensated or resettled during commercial land deals in Africa.
Tempête annoncée
- Earthsight
- 23 Mar 2018
Comment secret et collusion dans l’agriculture industrielle sont synonymes de désastre pour les forêts du bassin du Congo - un nouveau rapport de Earthsight
Contre l’accaparement de terres de KORASSE
- Kolda News
- 23 Mar 2018
Les populations des 14 villages riverains exigent l’annulation de la délibération octroyant 100 ha à ce projet destructeur qui ne profitera qu’à une seule famille au détriment de plus de 30 000 âmes et du cheptel de la commune rurale de Kandia.
UK's DFID funded company involved in forced land eviction in Kiryandongo District
- witnessradio.org
- 22 Mar 2018
Jospeh Initiative limited, a company funded by United Kingdom’s Department for International Development (DFID) is grabbing about 2000 hectares and forcefully evicting over 2300 families off their land in Uganda
Cerrado: Traditional communities accuse agribusiness of ‘green land grabbing’
- Mongabay
- 22 Mar 2018
In Brazil's Cerrado region, large-scale farms have increasingly laid claim to natural lands – often held without deed by traditional communities – with agribusiness counting them as their reserves.
The oil palm giant`s troubles
- Tempo
- 22 Mar 2018
Around 100 Nagari Maligi residents (‘nagari’ means village in the local language) have been protesting for days at the Wilmar Group’s representative office in West Pasaman, Sumatra, Indonesia since March 9.
O programa de terras do Banco Mundial no Estado do Piauí, Brasil, é uma licença para a grilagem de terras
- Sem Cerrado
- 21 Mar 2018
As comunidades locais, incluindo comunidades de quilombolas (descendentes de escravos negros) e povos indígenas, estão sendo violentamente deslocadas de suas terras tradicionais e enfrentam contaminação das águas e solos, aumento da violência contra seus líderes comunitários, desmatamento e perda da biodiversidade.
The current World Bank’s land titling program in northeastern Brazil is a license for land grabbing
- Campanha Nacional em Defesa do Cerrado
- 21 Mar 2018
The World Bank is financing a land titling program in the Brazilian State of Piauí, where large areas of land have been grabbed from local communities and illegally occupied by big agribusiness companies.