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Mali : les députés adoptent la loi sur le foncier agricole
- Agence Ecofin
- 04 April 2017
Les députés maliens viennent d’adopter le projet de loi sur le foncier agricole, ce qui incitera les investisseurs à investir davantage au Mali
World Bank ignores land grabbing
- Arbetet
- 04 April 2017
New documentary film shows how sales of huge land areas of Ethiopia, by the Ethiopian government, to foreign investors, have led to starvation and forced displacement, and how the World Bank is complicit.
Brasil: Projeto de venda de terras a investidores estrangeiros fica mais ‘liberal’
- Isto e Dinheiro
- 04 April 2017
A venda de terras brasileiras a investidores estrangeiros não terá limite de tamanho, no que depender do deputado Newton Cardoso Júnior (PMDB-MG), relator do projeto na Câmara.
Rwanda: une ONG accuse le gouvernement de répression dans des litiges fonciers
- RFI
- 01 April 2017
Human Rights Watch accuse des autorités civiles et militaires de l’ouest du Rwanda d’avoir menacé, violenté et poursuivi en justice des habitants qui se sont opposés à des politiques d’expropriation de terres agricoles.
Accaparement des terres : le rôle trouble des agences publiques en Afrique
- France 24
- 31 Mar 2017
L'Agence française de développement se trouve sous le feu des critiques de la part de plusieurs ONG françaises et internationales, qui l’accusent de favoriser les cas d’accaparements de terre
Day of the landless: Resistance and people’s rights, best counter vs. land grabs – PANAP
- PANAP
- 31 Mar 2017
Still the most effective way to counter the land grabbers is the collective action of rural communities to resist and to assert the people’s rights to their own land and resources.
Peasants' houses in Mekar Jaya - the ''hometown of agrarian reform'' in Indonesia - razed down by a plantation firm
- LVC
- 31 Mar 2017
Less than 72 hours after President Joko Widodo's orders to implement the agrarian reform through land redistribution, peasant families of Mekar Jaya Village in Langkat District of North Sumatera Province in Indonesia were in for a rude shock.
AAF ESG Annual Report 2016
- Phatisa
- 31 Mar 2017
African Agriculture Fund Environmental, Social and Governance Annual Report 2016
Brasil: Desmate no cerrado anula ganhos na Amazônia
- IHU
- 30 Mar 2017
Estudo mostra que pressão ao agronegócio sobre Matopiba, zona de expansão da agricultura, já compensa parte das emissões de carbono reduzidas pela queda na taxa de devastação amazônica.
CCFC Farmers member join LANDLESS DAY 29 March 2017
- CCFC
- 30 Mar 2017
Large land concessions are detrimental to the livelihoods of rural communities, who have drawn little benefit from these concessions and have had no effective remedy or recourse when their rights are infringed or violated.
Land Information Ecosystem Declaration
- Land Portal
- 30 Mar 2017
A group of individuals from a broad range of institutions and organizations that focus on improving land governance around the world hereby commit to promote and bolster data-sharing efforts within the land sector.
[Bénin] Assemblée nationale : le code foncier et domanial modifié
- Visages du Bénin
- 30 Mar 2017
La principale modification porte sur la suppression du certificat de propriété foncière, au bénéfice du titre foncier.