The Feronia case, and other development bank investment failures, shows that there is a need to overhaul development finance institutions practices and to consider whether it might be better to just shut them down entirely.
An Associated Press investigation found poor conditions of millions of laborers from some of the poorest corners of Asia across palm oil plantation in Malaysia and Indonesia, many of them enduring various forms of exploitation, with the most serious abuses including child labor, outright slavery and allegations of rape.
En el papel, la comunidad afro de ese consejo comunitario es dueña de 107 mil hectáreas de tierra en el Bajo Atrato (Chocó). En la práctica, el 95% de las tierras productivas están en manos de una decena de empresarios que las adquirieron en medio de la arremetida paramilitar a la región.
- El Espectador
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24 September 2020
Indonesia has started developing a food estate to grow rice, corn and other crops. The project is expected to cover an area of 770,000 hectares (1,903,000 acres), or more than ten times the size of Singapore.
- Reuters
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23 September 2020
Avec une plantation sur 50 000 ha à Campo et Niete, la société anonyme Cameroun Vert (Camvert) cherche à conquérir le cœur des populations riveraines
- Actu Cameroun
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23 September 2020
The villagers say they never received compensation for farmland lost to a sugarcane company owned by a senator, another company owned by businessman Heng Huy, and to Chinese company the Union Development Group.
Nyéléni Newsletter's second edition fo 2020 looks at how land-related struggles have evolved over the past decades, starting with demands for agrarian reform to a more comprehensive framing.
- Nyéleni Newsletter
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22 September 2020
Una verdadera financiarización de la tierra, de los recursos naturales y del sistema agroalimentario está en marcha a lo largo de América del Sur.
Communities of Edo State send letter to President Buhari denouncing land grabbing and other human rights violations committed by SOCFIN and its Nigerian subsidiary Okomu Oil Palm Company PLC.
- Edo State communities
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22 September 2020
The Singaporean-owned company has about 7600 hectares of farmland including a network of 25 properties in the Murray Valley and near Bendigo and in the Victorian Wimmera, carrying about 40,000 breeding sows.
- The Land
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22 September 2020
La création des réserves foncières, les concessions agricoles et les locations sont sources de litiges au Cameroun
- Actu Cameroun
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17 September 2020
Giant South Korean conglomerate Hanwha Group is looking to make an exit from the Warragundi aggregation in Australia, just over a year after taking control of the largest acreages in NSW’s Mudgee region.