The PRI’s webinar Planting the seeds of change: managing social issues in land investing explores why investors should consider land issues and learn about the Reference Guide for Risk Assessment in relation to land.
Authorities in Cambodia’s Kratie province on Thursday opened fire on a group of people protesting over a long-running land dispute with a rubber plantation, killing as many as eight people and injuring dozens of others.
- Radio Free Asia
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08 Mar 2018
La loi sur les ZES privera les Malgaches de l’accès à des milliers d’hectares de terres pour une période de longue durée sinon indéterminée
Officials from 24 Latin American and Caribbean states have signed a legally binding treaty containing measures to protect land defenders, almost two years to the day since environmental leader Berta Cáceres was killed in her home in Honduras.
Contamination of water sources, deplorable working conditions, and sexual blackmail in exchange for work, are some of the kinds of violence against women living in and around oil palm plantations in Guatemala and Colombia.
The expansion of oil palm plantations in Indonesia has turned women into landless food buyers and cheap labour, with no adequate safety and health protection, for the plantation companies.
India’s programme to compensate for the destruction of forests for development projects is routinely setting up monoculture tree plantations on community commons. Women, who are mostly affected, are at the centre of its resistance.
From rapes, forced body searches and searches of private spaces, to the risk of losing their lives: this article calls on us not to be accomplices to the violence women living around industrial tree plantations in Cameroon suffer.
The Philippines will sign this week a government-to-government agreement with Papua New Guinea allowing Filipino companies to produce rice on an area of about 1 million hectares within five years.
- Business World
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07 Mar 2018
The auction of Karuturi, one of the largest flower firms in the country, marks yet another dark chapter in the company’s dramatic fall from grace
- Business Daily
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06 Mar 2018
More than 100 villagers from communities affected by land grabbing in Koh Kong’s Sre Ambel district demonstrated outside a factory owned by Koh Kong Sugar Industry Co. Ltd.
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