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farmlandgrab.org WEEKLY 29 Jun 2016
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Stop further destruction by Bidco Africa! The No2Bidco Campaign in Uganda and Kenya request support for their struggle against Bidco Africa- a multinational joint venture involving Wilmar International that has decimated Bugala Island Uganda, clearing some 18,000 acres of rainforest to make way for an oil palm plantation. Sign this letter to request that the UNDP immediately disassociate from the project.
 
Times of Oman | 25 Jun 2016
Oman's OFIC signs agreement on food security projects

Oman Food Investment Holding Company and Arab Authority for Agricultural Investment and Development signed a memorandum of understanding for enhancing the existing cooperation between them in several food security projects

Mongabay | 24 Jun 2016
Malaysian land rights activist Bill Kayong murdered in broad daylight

Like other indigenous activists in Malaysia, Kayong actively conducted paralegal activities to raise the rights awareness in communities facing land grabbing by big oil palm or timber companies

RBTH | 24 Jun 2016
Russia-China agreement on grain hub calls for investing $1.1 bln

The memorandum calls for establishing a major logistics corridor consisting of 30 facilities, including a grain terminal and 29 elevators in various parts of Russia to support shipments.

Thanh Nien | 24 Jun 2016
Taiwan firm plans to invest $2.5 bln in livestock farms, wharves in Ha Tinh

Taiwan’s Wei Yu Engineering Company has sought licenses from Vietnam's central province of Ha Tinh to build a US$1 billion livestock farming and food processing complex and a $1.5 billion wharf.

Circle of Blue | 24 Jun 2016
Water scarcity, public protest slow foreign farmland purchases

New GRAIN study finds changed conditions in international “land grabs.”

Landportal.info | 24 Jun 2016
How far have we got since the great land rights debates five years ago?

Duncan Pruett reflects on the last 5 years at work advocating on the issues of land rights and foreign investments in agriculture.

Quartz | 23 Jun 2016
Food is getting so expensive in India that it now wants to farm in Africa and Myanmar

India, one of the world’s largest consumers and importers of pulses, may soon take over agricultural land in Africa and Myanmar to meet growing demand in its domestic market.

howwemadeitinafrica.com | 23 Jun 2016
Policy uncertainty holding back investment in agriculture

Grow Africa executive director William Asiko dismisses concerns about large-scale land grabbing in Ethiopia as "perceptions".

IPC | 23 Jun 2016
People’s manual on the Guidelines on Governance of Land, Fisheries and Forests

The People’s Manual is a pedagogical and didactic guide, which aims to make it easier to understand the Guidelines and to provide a practical approach to people on how to use them in their struggles.

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Le Monde | 27 jui 2016
Agrocarburants : « Une industrie polluante et non rentable ! »

L’Union européenne doit tirer les leçons de l’échec de la politique actuelle en abandonnant les politiques contraignant les automobilistes européens à consommer des agrocarburants.

Cameroon-Info.net | 23 jui 2016
Cameroun - Accaparement des terres: Des paysans réclament toujours 20 000 hectares de terre à la SOCAPALM

Les riverains des plantations de la Société Camerounaise de Palmeraies (SOCAPALM) ont repris leur mouvement d’humeur accusant celle-ci d’accaparement des terres.

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UST - MNCI | 28 jun 2016
Argentina, Mendoza, Corte de calle y Asamblea campesina y Popular en Punta del Agua : Por la Tierra y la Vida

Principalmente se denuncia el accionar de la Empresa Agua segura – Laguna Blu, que intenta apropiarse de tierras comunitarias de los campesinos, así como de predio públicos del pueblo.

Los Andes | 24 jun 2016
Argentina, San Rafael: denuncian intento de usurpación de tierras campesinas en Punta de Agua

Integrantes de una empresa transnacional habrían ingresado sin permiso a la propiedad de un puestero, a quien habrían golpeado y amenazado.

Deslinde | 24 jun 2016
Colombia: Las ZIDRES y el fenómeno internacional de acaparamiento de tierras

Las ZIDRES tienen varios elementos en común con las distintas modalidades de concesión que existen en el mundo para acumular tierras.

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CIMI | 23 Jun 2016
Brasil: Matopiba é morte, queremos a vida

“Nós não vamos deixar o Matopiba passar”, exclamou a liderança Krahô, Gercília

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