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We're revamping!
- GRAIN
- 27 Mar 2018
Farmlandgrab.org is getting a facelift. We are refreshing the design of the site and moving the social media content to GRAIN's accounts.
How a series of shady deals turned a chunk of Borneo into a sea of oil palm
- Mongabay
- 27 Mar 2018
Report uncovers an elaborate and coordinated scheme In Indoensia to establish shell companies, endow them each with licenses for thousands of hectares of land, and then sell them on to some of the region’s biggest palm oil conglomerates.
Kenya: Win for Siaya residents as county resolves to allocate Yala swamp
- The Star
- 27 Mar 2018
The department of lands in Siaya County has recommended that a portion of the contested Yala swamp lands currently occupied by US-based Dominion Farms be set aside for the community.
On Piñol’s idea to rise with rice in Papua New Guinea
- Business Mirror
- 27 Mar 2018
Papua New Guinea’s Prime Minister instantly offered 100,000 hectares for planting even starting tomorrow, but can develop easily 2 million hectares in government lands for rice farming with irrigation
Investment to transform cassava as a growth industry
- Khmer Times
- 27 Mar 2018
Green Leader Holdings Group, a Hong Kong-based investment firm, announced the investment of $150 to $200 million to build 20 processing factories and develop farmland in Cambodia
Reportage au Cameroun: Bolloré demande 50 millions d'euros à France Télévisions
- Le Figaro
- 26 Mar 2018
Le groupe public a qualifié les procès intentés par le Groupe Bolloré de "procédures-baillons", visant à intimider les journalistes qui souhaiteraient enquêter sur ses activités.
Mozambique: Another Norfund fiasco as Matanuska goes bust
- Mozambique News
- 26 Mar 2018
The banana plantation in Monapo, Nampula, that was supposed to be a model for foreign farm investment and was promoted by Norfund, has finally gone bankrupt, at huge cost to Mozambique.
Bolloré / France 2 : le procès à 50 millions d’euros
- France Inter
- 26 Mar 2018
Aujourd'hui se tient au Tribunal de Commerce de Paris l'audience du procès intenté par Vincent Bolloré à France 2 pour un numéro de Complément d'Enquête consacré au milliardaire français.
Colombia: ZIDRES: a la sombra de la palma africana
- Colombia Plural
- 24 Mar 2018
La industria de la palma africana sigue siendo una amenaza para los territorios. El 75,5% de las ZIDRES planificadas por el Gobierno están en zonas aptas para su cultivo. El Conpes que da vía libre a estas zonas está plagado de amenazas.
Oil palm project to be extended to other districts
- Observer
- 24 Mar 2018
The Ugandan government is in advanced discussions with the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) to extend the BIDCO oil palm project beyond Kalangala district.
Argentina: Lewis el amigo de Macri investigado por fraude
- El Destape
- 23 Mar 2018
El empresario británico es investigado en la Justicia por la "compra" de 11.000 hectareas.
Peasants of the world, intensity our struggle for land and life!
- APC
- 23 Mar 2018
“Day of the Landless” annual commemoration lead by Asian Peasant Coalition joint by People's Coalition on Food Sovereignty, 'No Land, No Life' campaign of PAN Asia Pacific and Youth for Food Sovereignty, on March 29 this year call for peasants of the world to intensify struggle for land and life.
Legal activism key to securing land rights during new investment phase
- Reuters
- 23 Mar 2018
The fact that fewer new investments are being publicly recorded does not mean we should be complacent. Past deals are now being implemented, and communities are feeling the squeeze. Helping them obtain redress when violations occur is a priority.
Women short-changed on commercial land deals in Africa - report
- Reuters
- 23 Mar 2018
Women are often short-changed compared to men when communities are compensated or resettled during commercial land deals in Africa.
Tempête annoncée
- Earthsight
- 23 Mar 2018
Comment secret et collusion dans l’agriculture industrielle sont synonymes de désastre pour les forêts du bassin du Congo - un nouveau rapport de Earthsight