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20 Dec 2018
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UAE company to start producing agricultural products in Uzbekistan Azer News | 19 Dec 2018
Representatives of Phoenix Agro Industry and Trade Company CA expressed their intention to invite the world's leading agronomists to Uzbekistan to study the land plots allocated for investment.
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Harvard's Endowment profits from California's dwindling water supply The Takeaway | 19 Dec 2018
In California's wine country, Harvard University's multi-billion dollar endowment is looking to take advantage of water scarcity.
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A reflection from Africa: Conquer the fear for building stronger movements WRM | 18 Dec 2018
Interview activist Nasako Besingi, the Director of the Cameroonian organization Struggle to Economize the Future Environment (SEFE), which supports local communities’ land rights struggles mainly against palm oil plantations.
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Villagers in Sierra Leone ponder their future after winning their lands back from a palm oil company WRM | 18 Dec 2018
The courageous victory of the villagers of Port Loko to get their lands back is an inspiration to communities affected by oil palm plantations from across Africa and the world.
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Foreign farmland investors in Brazil linked to 423,000 hectares of deforestation CRR | 18 Dec 2018
Harvard University, the US pension fund manager TIAA/Nuveen and Japan's Mitsui are among the foreign companies buying up Brazilian farmlands that are responsible for over 420,000 ha of deforestation in the Cerrado since 2000.
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Tycoon sued over illegal land grab Zim Eye | 13 Dec 2018
Villagers in Chipinge, Manicaland province have dragged ethanol producer, Green Fuel to court to stop it from occupying their communal land and interfering with their farming activities
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The Chain: BrasilAgro moves forward with deforestation at Chaparral CRR | 13 Dec 2018
BrasilAgro, which is 40% owned by Argentina's Cresud, continues to clear land on its Chaparral farm in Correntina, a municipality in the Brazilian state of Bahia.
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Greenpeace Africa and Cameroonian artists launch campaign against land grabbing Greenpeace | 13 Dec 2018
Greenpeace Africa, in partnership with Nsang Dilong, Freddy Kristel and Alene Menget, is launching a campaign against land grabbing using videos, an online and offline petition in Cameroon.
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As palm plantations grab land, Mayan women organize Sierra | 02 Dec 2018
In Petén, Guatemala, food scarcity is on the rise as arable land shrinks because of land grabbing for oil palm plantations
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El acaparamiento de tierras perpetrado por los fondos de pensión debe terminar | 14 dic 2018
La magnitud de este fenómeno de apropiación de tierras agrícolas por parte de las financieras tiene importantes consecuencias tanto para las comunidades rurales como para los sistemas alimentarios.
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