• Govt. must publish full SABL list
    • ActNow PNG
    • 22 January 2019

    ACT NOW! is demanding Papua New Guinea government to immediately publish a full list of SABLs current status. SABL is one of the world’s biggest illegal land grabs, and now more than 5-years after PNG government promised to cancel the SABL, people are still waiting to hear which leases have been cancelled.

  • Global asset and risk manager receives Guernsey Green Fund designation
    • International Investment
    • 21 January 2019

    Insight Investment received a Guernsey Green Fund accreditation for its farmland fund, the Global Farmland Fund Limited (GFF), which invests in farming projects worldwide

  • Belgian human rights defender illegally expulsed from Cameroon
    • CED
    • 21 January 2019

    Cameroon’s top human rights body condemns human rights violations committed against a member of a local farmers association (OFFGO) embroiled in land conflicts with an influential Cameroon businessman

  • Plano Director do programa Prosavana
    • 21 January 2019

    A UNAC vem através do presente manifestar o seu distanciamento em relação ao conteúdo do comunicado de imprensa emitido pelas Plataformas da Sociedade Civil das províncias de Nampula, Zambézia e Niassa em relação a elaboração do Plano Director do programa Prosavana.

  • UNAC press release on the Prosavana programme
    • UNAC
    • 21 January 2019

    Mozambique's national peasant organisation UNAC dissociates itself from a press release issued by the Civil Society Platforms of the provinces of Nampula, Zambezia and Niassa, in relation to the Master Plan of the Prosavana programme.

  • UNAC Communique on ProSAVANA meeting funded by JICA (UNACによる声明:JICA資金援助プロサバンナ会合について)
    • 21 January 2019

    2019年1月21日、JICAが資金援助したプロサバンナに関する会合の主催者が出した「声明」(2018年11月22日現地新聞発表)について、モザンビーク全国農民連合(UNAC)が全面否定する声明を発表しました。

  • Chinese investors protest against new crackdown on investment
    • AFR
    • 18 January 2019

    Australia's foreign investment regulator no longer believes private companies in China are free of Communist Party control, and plans on subjecting Chinese takeovers and deals, such as those for farmland, to more screening on national security grounds.

  • Cambodia: Chinese firm to invest in cotton plantations
    • Khmer Times
    • 18 January 2019

    Chinese firm Jiangsu Lianfa is now crop testing in Pursat province, in the country’s west, and will start growing cotton on 180 hectares of land if test results are satisfactory.

  • Lao protest villager freed, 11 still held
    • RFA
    • 18 January 2019

    Lao authorities have released a villager held since 2017 for protesting the loss of land awarded by the government to a Vietnamese rubber company, but 11 others remain in detention, with another reported to have died in custody last year.

  • UN challenges PNG govt over illegal land grabbing
    • Loop
    • 18 January 2019

    The United Nations has accused the Papua New Guinea government of racial discrimination against its own people over its failure to stop foreign companies using SABL leases to illegally occupy customary land.

  • Kachin’s plantation curse
    • Frontier Myanmar
    • 17 January 2019

    Illegally banana plantations backed by obscure nexus of Chinese investors are making quick profits for some, but fuelling land conflict and environmental degradation in Kachin province, Myanmar.

  • Brazil to fight invasions by landless workers: official
    • Reuters
    • 15 January 2019

    Brazil's land issues secretary says his government will seek to classify the occupation of farmland by landless workers movements as akin to terrorism, while at the same time offering to support foreign investors interested in buying farmland.

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