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Efforts to restrict foreign ownership of US farmland grow
- AP
- 10 June 2019
As foreign ownership of agriculture land continues to increase, efforts to limit foreign ownership of U.S. farmland have gained traction.
Ces Belges qui cultivent la pomme de terre illégalement dans l’Oise
- Le Parisien
- 10 June 2019
« C’est de l’agriculture délocalisée, car après, toute la transformation se fait dans des usines de l’autre côté de la frontière », s’énerve un représentant syndical français.
Human rights defenders face reprisals. Here’s what OECD and National Contact Points can do to protect them.
- BHRRC
- 08 June 2019
New research by OECD Watch and BHRRC shows that 64% of reprisals from companies against activists occur in the land-intensive extractive and agriculture sectors.
Face aux revendications de meilleures conditions de travail, l’agro-industriel Olam Gabon se défend
- Nouveau Gabon
- 07 June 2019
Olam Gabon revendique près de 64 000 hectares de palmiers à huile et 11 000 hectares d’hévéas
‘We come from the earth’: Q&A with Goldman Prize winner Alfred Brownell
- Mongabay
- 07 June 2019
The jobs and development promised to rural communities by investors who inked deals with the Liberian government in the late 2000s have failed to materialize in the wake of land disputes and conflicts.
Environnement: Total, Bolloré... la pression sur les multinationales s'accentue!
- RFI
- 06 June 2019
Le groupe Total et le groupe Bolloré sont dans le collimateur des ONG.
Etude sur l'impact de la loi française sur le devoir de vigilance et un éventuel traité international, sur l'agriculture des pays du Sud
- BRRC
- 06 June 2019
Coordination SUD questionne à travers cette note les possibles impacts de la loi et du futur Traité sur le secteur agro-industriel et sur la souveraineté alimentaire dans les pays du Sud
De olho no Paraguay
- De Olho nos Ruralistas
- 06 June 2019
Quem são os brasileiros que controlam boa parte do território paraguaio? Em uma série de 36 reportagens, De Olho nos Ruralistas conta o que fazendeiros e empresas fazem no Paraguai – e também no Brasil.
'We don't need them': Russian village rejects Chinese investment
- RFE
- 05 June 2019
Villagers in Krasnaya Gorka in Russia's Chuvashia are protesting the allocation of their lands to a Chinese company for a dairy project.
Feronia's land lease agreements in the DR Congo
- OpenLandContracts
- 05 June 2019
OpenLandContracts has published a set of 223 documents covering Feronia Inc's land lease agreements for its oil palm plantations in the DR Congo.
Ukraine: Assaults against community activists
- CHRD
- 05 June 2019
Local opponents to the EBRD and IFC financed expansion plans of Ukrainian poultry company MHP have suffered from numerous assaults and incidents of intimidation
Sauver les terres
- Politis
- 04 June 2019
Face à l'enfer de l'accaparement des terres, leur dégradation et leur artificialisation, un mouvement « terrariste » prend corps, écrit Geneviève Azam