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Bulgaria's Advance Terrafund REIT buys 69.5 ha of farmland in June
- SeeNews
- 15 July 2019
At the end of June, Advance Terrafund owned 23,017 ha of farmland and 13.3 ha of urban land.
RCEP trade deal will intensify land grabbing in Asia
- GRAIN
- 15 July 2019
RCEP will not just change rules on the export and import of goods and services; it will change how governments decide on rights to land and who has access to it.
An assessment of land deals undertaken by the National Oil Palm Project in Kalangala and Buvuma districts
- Tropenbos
- 14 July 2019
This policy brief summarizes detailed research on land conflicts in Uganda's Kalangala and Buvuma islands and recommends steps to the main players to avert them.
Les crimes du «grilagem»: l’appropriation mondiale des terres
- Alencontre
- 10 July 2019
Le terme grilagem est plus pertinent que celui d’«accaparement de terres» parce qu’il se réfère à une situation où la loi n’existe pas (aqui não tem lei), ou s’annule dans une situation très similaire à l’instauration d’un état d’exception.
Brazil: Amazon state's new law enables land thieves, critics say
- Al Jazeera
- 10 July 2019
Environmental groups argue law sanctioned by Para state governor will benefit land grabbers.
Résiliation d'actes de concession agricole et récupération de plus de 67.000 ha de terres à Brizina
- APS
- 09 July 2019
Pas moins de 27 actes de concession agricole ont été résiliés et 67.400 hectares de terres agricoles récupérés dans la commune de Brizina, en Algérie, pour cause de retard enregistré par les investisseurs
Bolivia: INRA dejó de verificar la FES, lo que alentó la apropiación de tierras fiscales
- El País
- 09 July 2019
Una mayor “extranjerización de la tierra” está trayendo como consecuencia mayor preponderancia del agronegocio frente a la producción tradicional de alimentos que va perdiendo terreno.
Cameroon's palm oil of discontent
- France 24
- 08 July 2019
In May, the Bolloré group was summoned to court in France after ten NGOs filed a lawsuit against it
Two groups of Cambodian villagers protest over land disputes
- Radio Free Asia
- 08 July 2019
Villagers embroiled in two separate land disputes in Cambodia’s Koh Kong province protested Monday, demanding solutions for their respective cases, one against a home-grown tycoon, the other against a Chinese developer.
Sierra Leone: Goldtree merges with Natural Habitats Europe Africa
- Michel Mores
- 08 July 2019
Finnfund and the DFI-backed African Agricultural Fund assume majority control of the Sierre Leone oil palm plantations and concessions of Goldtree Holdings and Natural Habitats.
TIAA’s “sustainability reports” can’t paper over the impacts of land grabbing
- ActionAid USA
- 08 July 2019
By buying up US farmland and leasing it to large-scale farm machinery operators, TIAA is closing the door on policies that could revive the more diversified farming that used to underlie healthy local economies.
Liberia: Report implicates gov’t officials in massive land grabs
- Liberian Observer
- 08 July 2019
The impoverished state of Bomi County is likely to worsen as many subsistent farmers are at the verge of losing their residential and farm lands to elites, who have since begun land-grabbing spree in the county