A district chief in Indonesia is seeking to overturn ministry decision approving a request that would allow a palm oil company to clear forest for plantation in Buol district, Sulawesi. The company initially get the concession after bribing the previous district chief.
Grassroots International is supporting partners and allies in a global campaign to stop violent and illegal land grabs at their source: the massive financial investments of pension funds and college endowments.
Une source proche du dossier a confirmé à Yabiladi que «la décision de la Cour suprême condamne la commune et non pas l’entreprise, et qu’«Afri Partners est filiale du groupe Sefrioui et non pas du Groupe Addoha»
The acquisition—both legally and illegally—of enormous amounts of terrain by a small number of groups has left Paraguay with the highest level of inequality of land ownership in the world.
Shares of Karuturi Global may remain in action, as its subsidiary Karuturi Agro Products Plc, Ethiopia, has been granted 15,000 hectares for agricultural activities.
2 543 parties civiles se sont regroupées autour d’un seul avocat pour se défendre devant la Cour suprême de justice
Multi-million pound corporations with complex structures have purchased the very ground we walk on – and we are only just beginning to discover the damage it is doing to Britain.
While Ethiopian and foreign companies such as Karuturi Global and Saudi Star have been given large leases and credit to farm lands in Gambella, local people have largely been left out, just as they have been excluded for decades
Saudi Arabia-based SAK Consultants is looking into investing in land or forming a partnership with landowners to export vegetables and meat to Saudi Arabia.
A ban on foreigners owning farmland introduced last year in Georgia's new constitution has made it more difficult for farmers to borrow because the country's mostly foreign-owned banks will no longer accept farmland as collateral.
Farmers in New Zealand wanting to sell their land to sell to a foreign buyer might have to advertise their properties more thoroughly than they do now, according to new proposals from the government.
Member organisations of La Via Campesina in Africa, America, Europe, and Asia are confronted by changes in soil use and by landgrabbbing on a massive and alarming scale that is in direct contradiction with popular agrarian reform.
