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Can big money fix a broken food system?
- Civil Eats
- 15 August 2017
Financial services firms are increasingly directing investor dollars into regenerative agriculture and other systemic food projects in the US, although not without risks
International investment blamed for violence and oppression in Sarawak
- Mongabay
- 15 August 2017
NGOs in Sarawak and around the world report failures by the Sarawak government to uphold indigenous land rights, and failures by international banks and investors to ensure their investments are conflict-free.
Brasil: A floresta como moeda de troca
- IHU
- 15 August 2017
Em julho, Temer sancionou a chamada Medida Provisória (MP) da grilagem, que, segundo críticos, perdoa todas as ocupações realizadas por tais grupos criminosos.
Senegal: Están locos estos ‘tubabs’
- El País
- 15 August 2017
Como la aldea gala de Asterix, un puñado de comunidades campesinas resiste con dificultades al acaparamiento de tierras en el valle del río Senegal.
Samsung: get out of conflict palm oil!
- SumOfUs
- 15 August 2017
Samsung subsidiary announced last week that it will be forming a joint venture with Korean-Indonesian agribusiness company, Korindo which was recently exposed for burning and clearing tens of thousands of hectares of Indonesia's rainforest for palm oil and timber production.
Colombia: la Amazonia se convirtió en tierra de nadie
- El Colombiano
- 14 August 2017
La principal causa de este desastre nacional, según el Ideam, es el afán de acaparamiento de tierras.
Chinese livestock firm taps up Southeast Asia
- Global meat news
- 14 August 2017
A leading Chinese livestock and meat processing firm wants to tap supply of cattle from south-east Asia, with a cattle quarantine and slaughtering hub planned for the city of Ruili, on the border with Myanmar.
French company relocates investment plant over land dispute
- Addis Fortune
- 12 August 2017
The Oromia Investment Commission faces a challenge in relocating 600 farmers from the 335ha of land leased to European Food and Cattle Plc in East Shoa, Ethiopia.
MP da Grilagem: Temer’s land grabbing bill
- Los Despojados
- 12 August 2017
The new Brazil legislation, dubbed MP da grilagem (land-grabbing bill) will loosen regulations on land legalisation, essentially legalises grilagem, which refers to the historically specific enclosures or land grabs that have been occurring in Brazil since colonial times.
Une entreprise française délocalise l’investissement d’une usine suite à une dispute foncière
- Addis Fortune
- 12 August 2017
La Commission de l’investissement de la région de l’Oromia est confrontée au défi de délocaliser 600 paysans de 335 hectares de terres d’un total de 800 hectares louées à la SARL European Food and Cattle
“I became victimised because my land was grabbed, and now I’ve been put in prison.”
- Global Witness
- 11 August 2017
There were dramatic scenes outside Phnom Penh court this week as one of Cambodia’s most iconic activists, Tep Vanny lost an appeal to overturn her two and a half year jail sentence.
Meet the S. Korean companies destroying Indonesia’s virgin rainforest
- Korea Expose
- 11 August 2017
Subsidiaries of prominent South Korea’s conglomerates including POSCO and Samsung, plus South Korean-owned Indonesian conglomerate Korindo Group, have been cutting down primary forest to make way for oil palm plantations.