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Goodvalley acquires production facility in Poland
- Global Newswire
- 04 June 2020
In connection with the acquisition, the Danish company expands the Group’s arable land bank in Poland through a 20-year lease agreement for 530 hectares of land nearby.
Ukraine to lift restrictions on farmland purchases by foreigners under condition – Zelensky
- UNIAN
- 04 June 2020
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said Ukraine will lift restrictions on farmland purchases by foreigners only after it provides domestic farmers with the opportunity to take loans at low rates.
Environmental conflicts and defenders: A global overview
- GEC
- 02 June 2020
Bottom-up mobilizations for more sustainable and socially just uses of the environment occur worldwide across all income groups, testifying to the global existence of various forms of grassroots environmentalism as a promising force for sustainability.
Offshore investors swoop on almond orchards
- AFR
- 01 June 2020
Funds managed by North American farmland and timber giant Hancock Natural Resource Group are poised to snap up two almond properties worth around $12 million in the NSW Riverina and South Australia’s Riverland.
Brasil: A história do cerco à Amazônia
- Amigos da Terra Brasil
- 31 May 2020
A engrenagem do capital esmaga a Amazônia, seus povos, a floresta e seus rios: de um lado, a expansão da soja e da pecuária, unidas à derrubada e comercialização ilegal de madeiras e às queimadas criminosas que “limpam a terra” para o agronegócio
Des terres en commun
- Nyéléni
- 28 May 2020
Le Mouvement Nyéléni pour la souveraineté alimentaire en Europe et en Asie centrale publie un manuel sur l'accès à la terre
Your land, my land, our land
- TNI
- 28 May 2020
Handbook of grassroots strategies to preserve farmland and access to land for peasant farming and agroecology
Libéria : La Salala Rubber Corporation (SRC) sous le feu des critiques, 22 communautés se plaignant d'abus
- Front Page Africa
- 28 May 2020
La SRC accuse l'équipe d'évaluation du CAO - mécanisme indépendant de surveillance et de redevabilité de la Société financière internationale de la Banque mondiale - de partialité
Liberia: Salala Rubber Corporation (SRC) under fire, as 22 communities complained of abuses
- FrontPageAfrica
- 28 May 2020
The complaint to the independent watchdog and accountability mechanism of the Wolrd Bank relates to a series of gross human rights abuses perpetrated against the indigenous people in SRC’s concession areas.
Banana farms in Laos sicken villagers, even as they provide steady work
- RFA
- 28 May 2020
China-invested banana plantations in Laos are sickening Lao villagers exposed to agricultural chemicals.
Tu tierra, mi tierra, nuestra tierra
- Coordinadora Europea Via Campesina
- 28 May 2020
El movimiento de Soberanía Alimentaria de Nyéléni en Europa y Asia Central (Nyéléni ECA) publica hoy una herramienta práctica para apoyar y fortalecer las luchas por la tierra de los pequeños y medianos productores de alimentos y de las comunidades locales.
Land and resource investment consultations in the time of COVID-19: The hazards of pressing on
- Reuters
- 27 May 2020
Companies are seeking to press ahead with investments on community lands or even take advantage of the pandemic to avoid the usual authorization requirements