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farmlandgrab.org WEEKLY |
04 Apr 2018 |
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New Dawn | 04 Apr 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 |
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Punch | 04 Apr 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. |
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Reuters | 04 Apr 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. |
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IDI | 04 Apr 2018
Displaced farmers from Cambodia have filed a landmark class-action lawsuit against the Thai sugar giant Mitr Phol. |
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ASO | 04 Apr 2018
Charges against Pastor Omot Agwa, an indigenous land rights defender from the Gambella region of Ethiopia are finally dropped by an Ethiopian court. |
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Reuters | 03 Apr 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. |
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ActionAid | 02 Apr 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.” |
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#NolandNoLIfe | 29 Mar 2018
Joint statement endorsed by 93 international, regional and national organizations to mark the “Day of the Landless” |
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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. |
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Bread for the World | 04 Sep 2016
Holding the Development Finance Institutions responsible when private sector projects fail. The case of Addax Bioethanol in Sierra Leone. |
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Socfin | 03 avr 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. |
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TeleObs | 01 avr 2018
Venu tout exprès du Cameroun, il sera présent, le 3 avril prochain, au Tribunal de Grande Instance de Nanterre qui examinera la plainte pour diffamation déposée par l’homme d’affaires, furieux contre le documentaire que lui avait consacré France 2, en 2016 |
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Chemin de terre | 30 mar 2018
Depuis 15 ans, organisations de la société civile et médias attirent notre attention sur les accaparements de terres et leurs conséquences désastreuses dans les pays en développement. Aujourd'hui c'est en Europe et en France que le phénomène s'étend. |
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FIAN Belgium | 30 mar 2018
Un candidat indépendant, défendant les droits des communautés locales affectées par les activités du groupe agroindustriel SOCFIN dans la chefferie de Malen, a été élu au Parlement national. |
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Sherpa | 29 mar 2018
Cette décision est importante en ce qu’elle réaffirme l’actualité des problèmes fonciers sur les plantations agro-industrielles des groupes Socfin et Bolloré. |
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AFP | 29 mar 2018
Le tribunal correctionnel de Paris a relaxé jeudi trois médias et deux ONG poursuivis en diffamation par la Socfin, une holding luxembourgeoise propriétaire de plantations en Afrique et en Asie et dont le groupe Bolloré est actionnaire. |
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Mali Actu | 29 mar 2018
Ségou a abrité du 26 au 27 mars 2018 la 4ème édition de l’espace « Village sans Terre », une initiative de la Convergence Malienne contre les Accaparements des terres |
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IHU | 04 Apr 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. |
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Projeto Colabora | 03 Apr 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. |
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