The new Brazil legislation, dubbed MP da grilagem (land-grabbing bill) will loosen regulations on land legalisation, essentially legalises grilagem, which refers to the historically specific enclosures or land grabs that have been occurring in Brazil since colonial times.
- Los Despojados
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12 August 2017
La Commission de l’investissement de la région de l’Oromia est confrontée au défi de délocaliser 600 paysans de 335 hectares de terres d’un total de 800 hectares louées à la SARL European Food and Cattle
- Addis Fortune
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12 August 2017
There were dramatic scenes outside Phnom Penh court this week as one of Cambodia’s most iconic activists, Tep Vanny lost an appeal to overturn her two and a half year jail sentence.
- Global Witness
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11 August 2017
Subsidiaries of prominent South Korea’s conglomerates including POSCO and Samsung, plus South Korean-owned Indonesian conglomerate Korindo Group, have been cutting down primary forest to make way for oil palm plantations.
- Korea Expose
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11 August 2017
Davao City Investment Promotions Center (DCIPC) chief Lemuel Ortonio met with a group of Japanese investors to discuss available areas for investment in Davao thriving agriculture sector.
- Manila Bulletin
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10 August 2017
Declaraciones en el marco de la presentación del libro: Acaparamiento de Tierras en la Amazonía Peruana, del autor Juan Luis Dammert Bello, por el caso Tamshiyacu.|
- Diario La Región
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10 August 2017
De 2004 à 2014, le volume de terres agricoles aux Etats-Unis détenues par des étrangers aurait doublé, les acheteurs étant essentiellement des canadiens, des néerlandais et des allemands
- Commodafrica
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10 August 2017
The Beidahuang Group is rumoured to have leased out the majority of its 85,000 ha of WA farmland purchased or leased in a $200 million spending spree five years ago
- West Australian
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10 August 2017
Villagers of Klong Sai Pattana, Thailand say palm oil company responsible for targeted killings and harassment of their community.
- Al Jazeera
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09 August 2017
Civil Society Organisations in Edo State, Nigeria under the umbrella of Coalition for Protection of the Environment, recently staged a protest against land grabbing and deforestation.
- This Day Live
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09 August 2017
Villagers from three communities in Svay Rieng province, Cambodia traveled to Phnom Penh to seek government intervention in a long-running land dispute involving NK Venture, a Vietnamese firm, that got special permission to build a sugar plantation covering 670 hectares.
L’UACDDD/Novox-Mali, membre de la Convergence Malienne contre l’Accaparement des Terres, lance un appel à tous de faire des actes de protestation auprès des autorités maliennes pour la libération des camarades en prison à Bamako et à San dans la région de Ségou.