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The biofuels boom and bust in Africa: a timely lesson for the New Alliance initiative
- PLAAS
- 30 April 2015
Land-based investments in Africa supported by the G8's New Alliance follow similar patterns to unrealised ambitions of biofuels investments.
West Papua Oil Palm Atlas – The companies behind the plantation explosion.
- awasMIFEE
- 30 April 2015
A comprehensive investigation into the oil palm industry in West Papua, by awasMIFEE and Pusaka and local Papuan organisations Belantara Papua, Bin Madag Hom, Jasoil, SKP KAME and Jerat. Papua, and Sawit Watch.
Accaparement des terres : nouvelles actions contre Bolloré
- Mediapart
- 30 April 2015
Cette mobilisation n’est que le dernier acte d’un interminable bras de fer entre le groupe Bolloré et le groupement d’association de paysans et de villageois.
Unearthing a Libyan land deal
- Reuters
- 30 April 2015
Irrigated farmland near the Niger River should be the breadbasket of Mali. But a lack of infrastructure, political instability, climate change and botched foreign investment deals mean the region isn't living up to its potential.
Banks and pension funds continue to bankroll deforestation and land grabs
- Guardian
- 30 April 2015
It’s right to hold destructive palm oil companies to account, but until we look to the organisations funding their activities we’re missing an important part of the puzzle.
Asia's agrarian reform in reverse: laws taking land out of small farmers' hands
- GRAIN
- 30 April 2015
Legislative changes now sweeping across Asia threaten to displace millions of peasant families, undermine local food systems and increase violent conflicts over land. Already, just six percent of Asia's farm owners hold around 66% of its farmland.
UE: ambitions freinées sur le biocarburant
- Le Figaro
- 29 April 2015
Le parlement européen a voté hier une directive qui selon certains observateurs marque un coup de frein au développement des biocarburants de première génération tels que l'éthanol produit à partir des céréales et du biodiesel issu d'oléagineux.
Socfin-Bolloré plantations: Second factory blocked by local communities
- ReAct
- 29 April 2015
The movement launched in Cameroon by peasants deprived of their land by the oil palm plantations is spreading. Bolloré puts the responsibility for the conflict on the Belgian shareholders of Socfin.
Plantations Socfin-Bolloré : une nouvelle usine bloquée par les communautés locales
- ReAct
- 29 April 2015
Le mouvement lancé au Cameroun par les paysans privés de leurs terres par les plantations de palmiers à huile s’étend. Bolloré renvoie la responsabilité du conflit sur les actionnaires belges de la Socfin.
Palawan: Stop blaming indigenous peoples’ farming practices for deforestation- look at oil palm plantations and mining
- ALDAW
- 28 April 2015
in Palawan, Philippines traditional farming like ‘slash-and-burn’(kaingin) is antagonized through restrictive legislation to pave way for increase land deals for industrial agriculture, especially oil palm and rubber.
Cambodian villagers march to ask for foreign intervention in land dispute
- RFA
- 28 April 2015
Around 50 villagers representing 90 families from Lor Peang village in Kampong Chhnang province presented petitions to the U.S. and European Union embassies among others, accusing KDC International—a company run by Chea Keng, wife of Cambodia’s Minister of Mines and Energy Suy Sem—of encroaching on their land.
Peasants from Malema, northern Mozambique, oppose the ProSavana agricultural project
- Lusa
- 28 April 2015
Peasants of Malema, Nampula Province, criticised the government for the way the ProSavana project is being implemented at a public consultation on the project's master plan.