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"Complément d'enquête" attaqué par Bolloré: "Tout est vrai", se défend son auteur
- AFP
- 04 April 2018
Le ministère public a requis la relaxe pour les extraits du reportage concernant la Socapalm
Calm returns to Sime Darby
- New Dawn
- 04 April 2018
Workers with the General Agriculture Workers Union of Liberia have agreed to go back to work after a 7-day solidarity work boycott, following the death of one of their colleagues on the Sime Darby plantation
Presco explains green energy investment, expansion in Edo State, Nigeria
- Punch
- 04 April 2018
“This year we intend to plant on 4,000 hectares. If we can do 100, 000 hectares in Edo State, we will do it,” says Felix Nwabuk, Managing Director fo Prescoe PLC, a subsidiary of the SIAT Group.
Mecenas da Amazônia, Noruega investe em frigoríficos no Brasil
- IHU
- 04 April 2018
Principal doador internacional do combate ao desmatamento da Amazônia brasileira, a Noruega também financia a atividade que mais contribui para a destruição da floresta.
Iraq says Saudi could invest in agricultural land in Anbar province
- Reuters
- 04 April 2018
Iraq’s trade ministry said on Wednesday a joint Iraqi-Saudi coordination council was considering an investment in one million hectares of agricultural land in the western province of Anbar.
Forcibly displaced Cambodians file historic lawsuit against Asia’s largest sugar producer
- IDI
- 04 April 2018
Displaced farmers from Cambodia have filed a landmark class-action lawsuit against the Thai sugar giant Mitr Phol.
Free at last: charges against indigenous land rights defender & former World Bank inspection panel translator dropped
- ASO
- 04 April 2018
Charges against Pastor Omot Agwa, an indigenous land rights defender from the Gambella region of Ethiopia are finally dropped by an Ethiopian court.
Reunião sobre o Ponto de Situação do ProSavana
- 03 April 2018
"Reiteramos a nossa posição contra o Programa ProSavana nos pressupostos em que foi desenhado e a forma como este tem sido imposto aos moçambicanos e moçambicanas, sendo que o convite para a referida reunião reforça esta imposição."
Liberia's new president must lead on land rights or risk conflict
- Reuters
- 03 April 2018
Research shows that the plantation model of development has failed to deliver promised benefits to Liberia’s rural people and that they benefit far more from retaining their traditional lands.
Harvard envolvida com grilagem de terras no Brasil
- Projeto Colabora
- 03 April 2018
Fraudes cartoriais, expulsão de trabalhadores rurais e desmatamento ilegal marcam a história da área de 140 mil hectares do Oeste na Bahia comprada por fundo da universidade americana.
Socfin : « Accaparement de terres » = diffamation
- Socfin
- 03 April 2018
Selon le Groupe Socfin, le Tribunal de Grande Instance de Paris a décidé qu’accuser le Socfin et la Socapalm d' « accaparements de terres » constitue autant de diffamations à l’encontre desdites sociétés.
Cambodian farmers sue Thai sugar group Mitr Phol over alleged land grab
- Reuters
- 02 April 2018
Farmers from Cambodia have filed a lawsuit in a Thai civil court against Asia’s largest sugar producer, accusing it of rights abuses after it allegedly kicked farmers off their land.
Brasil: Projeto propõe liberação da venda de terras a estrangeiros
- Correio do Estado
- 02 April 2018
Medida destravaria investimentos na área que esbarram em restrições
Documents forged with cricket poop used to legalize land claims in Brazil as World Bank project opens doors to land grabber
- ActionAid
- 02 April 2018
During the World Bank's annual land conference. Actionaid joined with 70 organizations in Brazil and across the globe to reveal how one of the Bank's own projects is a “license for land grabbing.”
The Bunong, SOCFIN, and the French billionaire
- IWGIA
- 01 April 2018
In December 2008, the Indigenous Bunong Peoples of Bousra Commune in Cambodia awoke one morning to find that some 10,000 hectares of their forest and lands had been conceded by the government to the SOCFIN group