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Day Of The Landless
- PANAP
- 21 Mar 2016
29 March is #DayofTheLandless
Au Honduras, les assassinats de militants écologistes se multiplient
- Reporterre
- 21 Mar 2016
En mars, deux activistes qui s’opposaient au barrage d’Agua Zarca et à l’accaparement des terres ont été tués au Honduras.
Argentina: Para el Frente Grande, Obama viene por la tierra
- Bariloche 2000
- 20 Mar 2016
El Frente Grande de Bariloche advirtió que, en coincidencia con la visita del presidente de EEUU, Barack Obama, el gobierno de Macri pretende avanzar con la modificación o derogación de la ley de Tierras que puso freno a la extranjerización territorial.
Berkshire Pension Fund commits £30M to Milltrust International’s NZ and Australia Buy & Lease farmland funds
- GAI
- 18 Mar 2016
The funds will acquire farms and farmland assets, including permanent crops, arable, and pastoral farmland, and lease to experienced operators across the focused geographical regions of Australia and New Zealand.
プロサバンナ事業「市民社会関与プロジェクト」対する抗議声明〜抜本的な見直しに向けた要請〜
- 18 Mar 2016
プロサバンナ事業「市民社会関与プロジェクト」対する抗議声明〜抜本的な見直しに向けた要請〜
Ecuador: Ley de Tierras, hacia la industrialización del agro
- INREDH
- 17 Mar 2016
Las empresas públicas extranjeras en garantía de la soberanía alimentaria podrán adquirir, arrendar o tomar en usufructo, tierras rurales en el territorio nacional para proyectos de producción agraria, previa autorización de la Autoridad Agraria Nacional.
'Losing our land like losing our lives', Brazil activist tells World Bank
- Reuters
- 17 Mar 2016
Investors describe it as one of the last frontiers for major agricultural expansion - a vast area in Brazil's poor northeast that the government is eager to open up to investors hoping to set up big new soy farms and cattle ranches.
Edo investor Okunbo unveils $750m farm
- http://thenationonlineng.net/edo-investor-okunbo-unveils-750m-farm/
- 17 Mar 2016
Capt. Hosa Okunbo and his technical and financial partners from the San Carlos Group in Mexico say that the farm has already taken off with an initial $11 million investment on a 20-hectare green house vegetables farm.
Another Socfin convict to be released today
- Awoko
- 16 Mar 2016
Sima Mattia's release was sought through the collective efforts of Coalition of Civil Society Organizations who had chipped in with the whopping sum of Le30 million to meet his fine imposed by the presiding Judge.
Now’s the time to really challenge the New Alliance
- GJN
- 16 Mar 2016
A large coalition of civil society organisations, NGOs and food campaigners have been working together closely across Europe to call on the European parliament to withdraw the EU’s support from the G7's New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition
Senator's plea drags Brazil ethanol industry into graft scandal
- Reuters
- 16 Mar 2016
The testimony says former chief executive of Petrobras, Phillipe Reichstul helped direct funds from Petrobras operations into the ethanol start-up group Brenco, which was created in 2006 and had investors that included Vinod Khosla, Steve Case and Tarpon Investments.
Belarus: Chinese company plans to implement investment project in Gomel Oblast Economy
- BelTA
- 16 Mar 2016
China Xinjiang Bingtuan Construction & Engineering (Group) Co. Ltd., which is one of the biggest companies in China, has plans to implement a joint investment project in the agricultural sector of Gomel Oblast
Kaolack : les organisations paysannes de la CEDEAO se mobilisent contre "l'accaparement des terres"
- APS
- 15 Mar 2016
Quelque 400 délégués des pays de la CEDEAO participent à cette caravane qui traduit "la cohésion des populations des états de la CEDEAO sur ces problèmes qui préoccupent".
Une caravane de la société civile ouest-africaine s'imprègne du litige foncier du Wassadou
- APS
- 15 Mar 2016
Le litige foncier du Wassadou a été largement évoqué lors d'un forum sur l'accaparement des terres, lundi, au centre culturel de Tambacounda (est), où a été reçue la caravane de la Convergence des luttes pour la terre et l'eau en Afrique de l'Ouest.
Land deals and the law: Grievances, human rights and investor protections - A briefing note
- CCSI
- 15 Mar 2016
This briefing note provides an overview of practical solutions for governments confronting “land grievances"