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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.
Foncier: le député Dominique Potier veut des mesures d'urgence
- Ouest France
- 20 Mar 2018
Le député français Dominique Potier est favorable à une loi foncière en 2019 mais à une condition : « des mesures d'urgence doivent être mises en place à court terme ».
Colombia: Bienvenidos a Carimagua
- La Silla Vacía
- 20 Mar 2018
Una constante respecto a la propuesta de 2017 es la inclusión de normas de textura abierta que podrían favorecer la acumulación de tierras por parte de agentes económicos, en detrimento de la distribución para campesinas y campesinos sin tierra.
Kazakhstan: Kostanai region to advance agriculture, car assembly with Italian, Chinese investments
- Astana
- 20 Mar 2018
The Italian agribusiness investors are interested in land leasing with ready engineering and transport infrastructure and access to the Chinese and Russian markets
GLV n’a pas respecté les normes RSPO en matière de FPIC
- FPP
- 20 Mar 2018
L’organe de la Table ronde pour une huile de palme durable chargé de recevoir des plaintes a reconnu que Golden Veroleum Liberia enfreint régulièrement les normes relatives au consentement libre, préalable et éclairé (FPIC)