The European Union (EU) has provided Tanzania a grant of 59.5 million euros for improved agri-business and trade facilitation that will support the Southern Agricultural Growth Corridor of Tanzania.
- Tanzania Daily News
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09 May 2014
The company wants an end to land conflicts in the area "where Dar es Salaam based bigwigs are frustrating the project" and incentives for ethanol production.
- Tanzania Daily News
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09 May 2014
Desde el 2001, los propietarios extranjeros empezaron a rodear a la comunidad indígena Puerto María Auxiliadora, en Alto Paraguay, y ahora incluso cercaron parte de sus tierras.
L’état de Cross River, qui est le second bassin cacaoyer du Nigéria, met en vente 5 fermes publiques s’étendant sur 12 129 hectares.
- Agence Ecofin
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07 May 2014
A World Bank-supported rubber company accused of land grabs has suspended some of its projects in Cambodia, as an investigation by the bank continues.
Wilmar International, one of the world’s largest oil palm companies, through its subsidiary, Biase Plantations Ltd acquired 5,561 hectares of land from the Cross River State government in 2011.
For the affected communities, this is a story of bad rather than “best practices”, an experience in which their “aspirations” as “stakeholders” were not at all addressed.
Amigos de la Tierra Liberia advierten a los gobiernos e inversionistas que todas las inversiones deben respetar los derechos de las comunidades y su propiedad sobre las tierras.
- Amigos de la Tierra
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07 May 2014
Jefri Saragih talks about his organisation's long experience with the RSPO and the impacts of oil palm plantations in Indonesia.
The excessive consumption and the transnational company’s need to keep expanding to increase corporate profits that are pushing the continuous expansion of industrial oil palm plantations.
Liberia's Jogbahn Clan and other communities are resisting the corporate takeover of their land and they are winning. All over Africa people are sending a clear message to their governments; stop selling Africa to corporations.
Within Honduras, the murder rate climbs as one travels north to the central Atlantic coast departments. In the heart of this region lies the lush Lower Aguán Valley, a center of deadly conflict over land rights.
- Carnegie Council
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06 May 2014