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Matopiba: Killing the Cerrado and its people
- 23 June 2016
Final report from the III Assembly of Indigenous Peoples of Goias and Tocantins, Brazil, 20-23 June 2016
Brasil: Matopiba é morte, queremos a vida
- CIMI
- 23 June 2016
“Nós não vamos deixar o Matopiba passar”, exclamou a liderança Krahô, Gercília
Cameroun - Accaparement des terres: Des paysans réclament toujours 20 000 hectares de terre à la SOCAPALM
- Cameroon-Info.net
- 23 June 2016
Les riverains des plantations de la Société Camerounaise de Palmeraies (SOCAPALM) ont repris leur mouvement d’humeur accusant celle-ci d’accaparement des terres.
Families evicted by sugarcane farms appeal in Phnom Penh
- Cambodia Daily
- 22 June 2016
Villagers representing more than 1,000 families that accuse sugarcane plantations around the country of stealing their land gathered in Phnom Penh on Tuesday to once again call on the government to help.
The sugar industry has been catastrophic for Cambodia's poor, so why are companies being honoured?
- Reuters
- 22 June 2016
In Cambodia, more than 15,000 people have been forcibly evicted to make way for sugar cane plantations.
Ninety per cent of Aussies oppose foreign farm sales
- New Daily
- 22 June 2016
A new poll by the Lowy Institute found 87 per cent of respondents opposed allowing foreign companies to buy Australian agricultural land — six percentage points higher than a similar survey four years ago.
Malawi moves from a consuming and importing to a producing economy – Mutharika
- MANA
- 22 June 2016
Malawi government tells Chinese investors it is halfway through a process to identify 10,000 estates lying idle that can be opened up for commercial farming.
Ag sector investment prospects 'highly positive'
- Agrimoney
- 22 June 2016
"Money is still being pumped into the sector almost regardless of geography," says director of Primer International.
Chinese firm gets more time to sell stake
- Xinhua
- 21 June 2016
Australia has granted a three-year extension for a Chinese company to reduce its 80 percent stake in Australian cotton farm Cubbie Station after it indicated it could not meet the October 2015 deadline.
'All we ask is for is our land back': Uganda's Bugala Island farmers
- Reuters
- 21 June 2016
Farmers on Bugula Island, the second largest in Lake Victoria, are now locked in a legal battle with Bidco, which says it has not been involved in any land transactions.
Brasil: Acampados na UFT, indígenas participam de assembleia na defesa de direitos e denunciam os impactos do Matopiba
- Conexaoto
- 21 June 2016
O encontro traz a temática "Na defesa dos Direitos Constitucionais dos Povos Indígenas, resistimos e denunciamos os impactos do Matopiba nos territórios tradicionais".
World Bank allows Tanzania to sidestep rule protecting indigenous groups
- ICIJ
- 21 June 2016
The World Bank’s board has granted a massive agribusiness project in East Africa a waiver that exempts it from following the bank’s Indigenous Peoples Policy—sparking fears that the development lender is making an end run to resurrect a policy that it abandoned in public.