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Livret: 12 tactiques utilisées par les sociétés productrices d’huile de palme pour s'emparer des terres communautaires
- GRAIN
- 04 April 2019
Le livret « Promettre, diviser, intimider, contraindre : 12 tactiques utilisées par les sociétés productrices d’huile de palme pour s'emparer des terres communautaires » a été publiée aujourd’hui par le Mouvement mondial pour les forêts tropicales, GRAIN et une alliance d’organisations communautaires et locales unies contre les plantations industrielles de palmiers à huile en Afrique de l’Ouest et centrale.
Booklet: 12 tactics palm oil companies use to grab community land
- GRAIN
- 04 April 2019
The booklet “Promise, Divide, Intimidate and Coerce: 12 tactics palm oil companies use to grab community land” has been launched today by the World Rainforest Movement, GRAIN and an Alliance of community and local organisations united against industrial oil palm plantations in West and Central Africa.
The highest bidder takes it all: The World Bank’s new scheme to privatise land in the global south
- Brettonwoods Project
- 04 April 2019
World Bank is launching an unprecedented attack on the commons by pushing privatisation of customary and public land and its sale by auction to the highest bidder. The land indicator’s Enabling the Business of Agriculture rankings prescribes policy reforms to ease access to land for agribusiness.
Namibia: How corruption affects women's land rights
- The Namibian
- 03 April 2019
Corrupt practices in the context of large-scale land-based investments in Africa contribute to the unauthorised conversion of customary land to commercial land, to the detriment of poor rural women's access
UN’s SABL response due in seven days
- Post-Courier
- 03 April 2019
The UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination asked the PNG government yet again, to respond to concerns that PNG continues to authorise the exploitation of indigenous land by foreign companies through SABLs.
Nowhere to go: Myanmar farmers under siege from land law
- Al Jazeera
- 03 April 2019
The Myanmar government has tightened a law on so-called 'vacant, fallow and virgin' land, and farmers are at risk.
« Nous avons aussi droit à la vie »
- Synaparcam
- 03 April 2019
Requête et revendications des femmes vivant autour et à l'intérieur des plantations de palmiers à huile et d'hévéa de la filiale du groupe Socfin/Bolloré (Socapalm) au Cameroun
Sous-location de terres agricoles: ces Belges qui exploitent les terres picardes
- Couerrier Picard
- 02 April 2019
Pourtant interdite, la sous-location de terres agricoles françaises à des exploitants belges se répand dans les Hauts-de-France. Une pratique qui inquiète les autorités et le monde agricole.
One of Africa’s most fertile lands is struggling to feed its own people
- Bloomberg
- 02 April 2019
Little of the 5 million acres [2.02 million hectares] that Sudan's agriculture ministry estimates are in foreign hands—perhaps less than 1 in 20 acres—has been cultivated.
The Madhvanis: The industrialists who have tasted sucrose and success
- Forbes
- 02 April 2019
Interview with Mayur and Kamlesh Madhvani, the Joint Managing Directors of the Madhvani Group which controls a 14,000 hectare sugar estate in Uganda
Socfin’s response to FIAN’s report on land grabbing for palm oil in Sierra Leone
- BHRRC
- 01 April 2019
Socfin denies allegation and argues amongst other things that they went through a lengthy process of consultation with the communities, resulting in an overall acceptance and support to the project
Internal audit reveals Shs 5.3 billion fraud in Bidco
- Observer
- 01 April 2019
An internal audit conducted by Wilmar International on its subsidiary company, Oil Palm Uganda Limited (OPUL) has revealed a US$1.4 million fraud within the company’s finance department.
ASEAN guidelines for responsible investment in food, agriculture and forestry
- IISD
- 30 Mar 2019
ASEAN Guidelines on Promoting Responsible Investment in Food, Agriculture and Forestry adopted by ASEAN Ministers on Agriculture and Forestry (AMAF) in October 2018 through a multistakeholder process involving the ASEAN Secretariat, Grow Asia, the International Institute for Sustainable Development, the Swiss Agency for Development Cooperation and a World Bank trust fund.
How land grabbers co-opt indigenous ritual traditions in Papua: Q&A with anthropologist Sophie Chao
- Mongabay
- 29 Mar 2019
Industrial-scale agriculture poses considerable risk to the indigenous peoples of Papua. Anthropologist Sophie Chao has studied the often fraught relationship between Papuans and plantation firms, and the mechanisms through which indigenous people are compelled to give up their land.
139 groups from 26 countries mark ‘Day of the Landless’
- PAN AP
- 29 Mar 2019
In a strong show of support to rural communities asserting their right to land, 139 organizations from 26 countries across Asia Pacific, Africa, Latin America, North America and Europe issued a joint statement to mark the Day of the Landless last 29 March with several solidarity actions were also held on the same day.