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07 Feb 2019
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A fellowship opportunity for activists and journalists investigating and exposing land and housing injustice.
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Cambodia: Preah Vihear land dispute drags on Phnom Penh Post | 05 Feb 2019
Preah Vihear provincial authorities have requested villagers to stop clearing disputed land and wait for authorities to find a solution according to the “tiger skin formula”, which aims to reduce the impact of economic land concessions.
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Egypt to increase investment in Zambia's agriculture sector Xinhua | 05 Feb 2019
The deal includes the construction of a new farm project of greenhouse vegetable production over an area of 600 hectares (6 square kilometers) in central Zambia's Mkushi district.
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Jigawa governor’s rally records low turnout as angry residents whose farmlands were seized stay away Premium Times | 05 Feb 2019
The people of Gagarawa are angry with the governor over the seizure of their farmlands, which the state government handed over to foreign investors for an irrigation farming project.
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Ukrainian President Poroshenko extends moratorium on agricultural land sale UA Wire | 05 Feb 2019
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has signed a law for the extension of a moratorium on the sale of agricultural land until January 1, 2020.
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Palm oil giant Golden Agri-Resources removed from Dow Jones Sustainability Index after bribery and corruption scandal FOE | 05 Feb 2019
Golden Agri-Resources’ operations in Indonesia and Liberia have generated years of controversy, including consistent and well-documented allegations of deforestation, land grabbing and human rights violations.
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New Jersey State Investment Council commites $100 million to Homestead Capital's US farmland fund GAI | 05 Feb 2019
New Jersey’s $70 billion public-employee pension manager, the New Jersey State Investment Council, has agreed to commit $100 million in Homestead Capital’s third farmland fund.
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CSOs urged gov’t to probe Sahn Malen killing Concord Times | 01 Feb 2019
Sierra Leone Land Rights Defenders say SOCFIN's land acquisition in Malen has resulted in serious conflict with local landowners, who face intimidation and harassment for defending their land rights and challenging the company.
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Reportage de la BBC dans la chefferie de Sahn Malen, Sierra Leone | 31 Jan 2019
Un reportage d'Umaru Fofana dévoile l’étendue des troubles dans la chefferie de Sahn Malen au sud de la Sierra Leone. Les conflits continuent entre des propriétaires fonciers locaux et une société agroalimentaire européenne, SOCFIN.
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Land rights defenders condemn gross human rights abuses in Sahn Malen SiLNoRF et al | 31 Jan 2019
Proponents of land rights in Sierra Leone note with grave concern the human rights violations against members of the Malen Affected Landowners and users Association who were dispossessed of their land by the agro–based multinational SOCFIN.
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UNAC press release on the Prosavana programme UNAC | 21 Jan 2019
Mozambique's national peasant organisation UNAC dissociates itself from a press release issued by the Civil Society Platforms of the provinces of Nampula, Zambezia and Niassa, in relation to the Master Plan of the Prosavana programme.
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Jigawa sugar plantation takes off despite resistance Daily Trust | 18 Aug 2018
About 12,000 hectares of land in four local government areas of the Nigerian state were reportedly taken for the sugar cane plantation project, backed by a Chinese company, which sparked off protests.
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Algérie : un projet algéro-saoudien verra bientôt le jour à El-Menea APS | 01 fev 2019
Fruit d'un partenariat privé, le projet s'étendra sur une superficie de 5.000 hectares accordés dans le cadre de la concession agricole et sera consacré exclusivement aux cultures stratégiques, céréales et aliment de bétails
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AgroGeneration renforce sa position financière en cédant des terres agricoles et en sécurisant ses financements pour la récolte 2019 Agrogeneration | 31 jan 2019
La société annonce la signature d'accords de cession de 28 500 ha de terres agricoles, soit 27% du total du groupe, dans l'Ouest de l'Ukraine
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La France vient au secours du groupe Bolloré en violant, à l’occasion, l’article 6 de la Convention européenne des Droits de l'homme CGT | 31 jan 2019
La CGT exige que le gouvernement français accorde les visas nécessaires pour que les plaignants puissent participer à leur procès et répondre aux interrogations des juges.
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Sierra Leone : deux morts et des milliers de déplacés autour des plantations Socfin Le Quotidien | 31 jan 2019
Ces violences ont fait réagir mercredi un collectif de la société civile luxembourgeoise qui avait averti dès octobre le ministère des Affaires étrangères sur le risque de violences que fait peser le conflit foncier opposant certains villageois à Socfin.
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UN Declaration on the Rights of Peasants (in Japanese) 国連小農権利宣言（最終版、日本語訳） | 04 Feb 2019
国連総会で最終的に採択された「小農と農村で働く人びとの権利に関する国連宣言」の最終版の日本語全訳を掲載します。
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Kesepakatan rahasia hancurkan surga Papua The Gecko Project | 31 Jan 2019
‘Kesepakatan rahasia hancurkan surga Papua’, kisah ketiga dari seri Indonesia Dijual, suatu rangkaian laporan investigasi yang memaparkan potret buram dari situasi deforestasi dan krisis agraria di Indonesia.
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