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15 Aug 2019
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An online consultation on the UNIDROIT/FAO/IFAD Agricultural Land Investment Contracts Zero Draft is open from 1 June until 30 September 2019.
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Urgent: Land defender violently killed by a security guard of Canadian palm oil company Feronia in the DRC. Take action now!
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Why is no action being taken to arrest the killer of DR Congo land defender Joël Imbangola Lunea? RIAO-RDC et al | 14 Aug 2019
Twenty-four days have passed since land defender Joël Imbangola Lunea was brutally killed by Canadian palm oil company Feronia Inc.'s chief of security at Bempumba, in the Province of Equateur of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
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Impact investorAgDevCo expands into Cote d’Ivoire with €8.7M palm oil and cashew investment Global AgInvesting | 12 Aug 2019
UK-based investor AgDevCo has expanded its geographic reach into Cote d’Ivoire with an €8.7 million investment in DekelOil, an agribusiness leader in the West African palm oil and cashew sectors.This investment brings AgDevCo’s portfolio to more than 40 active investments totaling $170 million across sub-Saharan Africa.
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The great land robbery The Atlantic | 12 Aug 2019
The shameful story of how 1 million black families have been ripped from their farms. A war waged by deed of title has dispossessed 98 percent of black agricultural landowners in America.
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Failed commercial farms The Reporter | 10 Aug 2019
Birhanu Fikade of "The Reporter" sat down with Atkyelesh G.M. Persson (PhD) to learn about her findings on large scale FDI that failed to deliver the desired results in Ethiopia
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Karuturi, Saudi Star et al labeled poor performers, less responsible investors The Reporter | 10 Aug 2019
Scholar and employee of the UN Economic Commission for Africa, Atkyelesh G.M. Persson, recommends that the government, private sector and academia further investigate the potential damages large scale farms have perpetrated in Ethiopia and beyond.
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Bolsonaro ignores fears for Amazon amid record land-grab The Australian | 09 Aug 2019
A record amount of Brazil’s Amazon rainforest was cut down or destroyed last month, fuelling concerns that under President Jair Bolsonaro, illegal miners and farmers are involved in a free-for-all land grab.
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China investing in Brazil ag DTN | 07 Aug 2019
COFCO announced it will finance the expansion of more than 60 million acres [24 million ha] of soybean production in Brazil.
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Lao protest villagers held since 2017 have been sentenced Radio Free Asia | 06 Aug 2019
Nine Lao villagers held for over two years for protesting the loss of land awarded by the government to a Vietnamese rubber company have been sentenced to prison terms ranging from two to six years.
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Land returns after complaint to World Bank offer hope to indigenous villagers VoA Cambodia | 05 Aug 2019
After a decade of hardship, indigenous villagers in Cambodia scored a significant victory after they put pressure on the World Bank Group over its financial ties to a land-grabbing company, Vietnam agribusiness giant HAGL.
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Reflections on how state–civil society collaborations play out in the context of land grabbing in Argentina MDPI | 30 Jul 2019
Land grabbing provokes many governance challenges, which generate new social arrangements. We particularly explore how the collaborations between the provincial government of Santiago del Estero and non-government organizations (NGOs) in Argentina played out.
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Le britannique AgDevCo annoncé dans un investissement dans le secteur agroalimentaire en Tanzanie Agence Ecofin | 16 Jul 2019
La firme britannique d’investissement AgDevCo annonce la réalisation d’un engagement au sein d’Africado, une entreprise tanzanienne spécialisée dans la culture et l’exportation d’avocats.
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Pourquoi aucune mesure n'est-elle prise pour arrêter l'assassin du défenseur foncier Joël Imbangola Lunea? RIAO-RDC et al | 14 aout 2019
Vingt-quatre jours se sont écoulés depuis que le défenseur des droits foncier Joël Imbangola Lunea a été brutalement tué par le chef de la sécurité de la compagnie canadienne d'huile de palme Feronia Inc. à Bempumba en RD Congo
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Le Brésil, géant agricole pas vraiment vert AFP | 11 aout 2019
L’augmentation croissante des exportations agricoles du Brésil suscite des craintes d’une nouvelle avancée de la frontière agricole brésilienne, au détriment de la forêt amazonienne, « poumon de la planète », et d’autres écosystèmes menacés.
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Au Cameroun, Greenpeace Africa plaide pour la sécurisation des terres des peuples autochtones Scoops d'Afrique | 09 aout 2019
A l’occasion de la célébration de leur journée internationale, Greenpeace Afrique se joint aux peuples autochtones du Cameroun pour demander le respect des droits à leurs forêts, face aux entreprises responsables d’accaparement des terres.
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Mort d'un activiste congolais : la Belgique interpellée Le Vif | 08 aout 2019
Joël Imbangola, membre de l'organisation congolaise de défense de l'environnement et des droits de l'homme RIAO-RDC, a été tué au nord-ouest de la République démocratique du Congo (RDC).
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