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farmlandgrab.org WEEKLY 30 Mar 2016
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Green Scenery in Sierra Leone have initiated a petition calling on the President of the Republic to release Shiaka Sama and five other MALOA land rights activists from prison immediately. Three are out so far. Please support the effort!
 
ABC | 30 Mar 2016
Foreign-owned land register will not be made public despite transparency pledge

A new register of agricultural land will not be made public despite the Government's promise to provide more transparency over foreign investment in Australian farms.

PAN AP | 29 Mar 2016
Groups plan campaign vs. corporate oil palm plantations, mark #DayOfTheLandless

Advocacy group PAN Asia Pacific (PANAP) today joined peasant and indigenous groups, land activists, and human rights campaigners in the region in marking the global Day of the Landless through a solidarity action in Jakarta.

CS Monitor | 28 Mar 2016
Why Saudi Arabia bought 14,000 acres of US farm land

The Middle Eastern kingdom needs hay for its 170,000 cows. So, it's buying up farmland for the water-chugging crop in the drought-stricken American Southwest.

New York Times | 26 Mar 2016
Q&A on impact of economic land concessions in Southeast Asia

Authorities in Cambodia, Laos and Myanmar have granted hundreds of long-term land leases called economic land concessions to foreign and domestic developers to set up rubber, sugar or other plantations or mining projects. A closer look at the issue

Associated Press | 25 Mar 2016
Cambodia's zeal for rubber drives ethnic group from land

The Bunong say they never were warned their land would be taken and were not offered compensation before the land started to be cleared — two steps required under Cambodian law.

Reuters | 25 Mar 2016
Ethiopia body suspends farm lease programme after poor results

An Ethiopian state body that has been involved in leasing tracts of land for commercial farming has suspended the issuance of new licences until it completes a review because of scant progress in developing areas leased so far, an official said.

Contagio Radio | 04 Mar 2016
Colombia: Zidres Law promotes land grabbing, affects communal territories

On 3 February, President Santos signed the Zidres Law, which actually serves the interest of land grabbers in Colombia

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Green Scenery au Sierra Leone a redigé une pétition à l'attention du Président de la République pour demander la libération immédiate de Shiaka Sama et les cinq autres militants anti-landgrabbing de MALOA. Trois d'entre eux ont été liberés. Soutenons leur effort !
 
Camer.be | 28 mar 2016
Cameroun : Haute-Sanaga : La boulimie foncière des hauts commis de l’Etat

Directeurs, parlementaires, généraux d’armée, ministres…, usant du trafic d’influence, accaparent à vil prix de vastes étendues de terre dans cette partie du pays déjà sollicitée par des agro-industries.

La Terra | 24 mar 2016
Accaparement des terres : les députés ne proposent qu’un registre

Les parlementaires québécois concluent qu’il faut obtenir un portrait plus détaillé des transactions de terres agricoles pour pouvoir mieux juger du phénomène d’accaparement des terres.

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Voz de América Noticias | 28 mar 2016
Sauditas compran tierras en EE.UU. para alimentar su ganado

La compra es parte de la reversión en su política saudí de intentar cultivar en su propio país lo que consume, para favorecer ahora los cultivos en granjas en el extranjero.

Diagonal | 26 mar 2016
Entrevista a Vicent Garcés: "La globalización neoliberal ha producido verdaderas contrarreformas agrarias"

El fenómeno de los "acaparamientos de tierras", en crecimiento a partir de 2008, evidencia todo un proceso de reconcentración y acumulación que se expresa de formas muy diversas (no sólo a través de la concentración de tierras, sino también tomando el control sobre las cadenas de valor global, por ejemplo).

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