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30 Jul 2020
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Defending tomorrow: The climate crisis and threats against land and environmental defenders Global Witness | 29 Jul 2020
Global Witness annual report into the killings of land and environmental defenders in 2019 shows the highest number yet have been murdered in a single year. 212 land and environmental defenders were killed in 2019 – an average of more than four people a week.
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World Bank-backed attempt to commercialize Madagascar’s beef industry falters Mongabay | 24 Jul 2020
SMTP created BoViMa in 2014 with the ambition of capturing the regional market, supplying beef to islands in the Western Indian Ocean. Its plans remained in cold storage for years. In 2017, the IFC stepped in.
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Extractivism, exclusion and conflicts in Senegal’s agro-industrial transformation Taylor & Francis | 24 Jul 2020
"The Senhuile land-grab is an ongoing process, whose trajectory will depend on the possibility to construct and strengthen alliances among farmers’ and herders’ groups at local, regional and national levels to ensure recognition of pastoral land rights" says Maura Benegiamo
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Victory for peasant and civic movements! ProSAVANA officially ended Mokai and JVC | 24 Jul 2020
Sayaka Funada-Classen reports that the Japanese and Mozambican governments have announced the termination of ProSAVANA, a huge victory for Mozambican peasant movements and tri-national peoples solidarity
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Fears growing for five indigenous Garifuna men abducted in Honduras The Guardian | 23 Jul 2020
The Triunfo de la Cruz region has been embroiled in a struggle to save their ancestral land from developers, palm oil pagmnates and drug traffickers
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Elite Agro and Khalifa Fund sign MoU Fruitnet.com | 22 Jul 2020
Elite Agro has signed a two-year Memorandum of Understanding with Khalifa Fund for Enterprise Development to manage and operate a number of farms in the UAE
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Run for nature: The fight to save Africa’s forests Slow Food | 21 Jul 2020
As the world concentrates on dealing with COVID-19 pandemic, multinational companies continue to evict communities from their land, tearing down their lives and their sovereignty to plant monocrops like oil palm and sugar cane in Africa, or GMO soy in South America.
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MCC could potentially shift millions of hectares of land into private control, says US-based think tank Daily FT | 21 Jul 2020
The Oakland Institute, independent policy think tank based in the US, in a recent report said the compact between Sri Lanka and the US Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) could potentially shift millions of hectares of land in the country into private control
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Feronia Inc. enters into restructuring purchase agreement Globe Newswire | 21 Jul 2020
Feronia announces that it has entered into a definitive purchase agreement with Straight KKM 2 Ltd that provides for the acquisition of its operating subsidiary, Plantations et Huileries du Congo.
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Afrique: mais qui est propriétaire de cette parcelle? RFI | 27 juil 2020
Derrière cette question simple, il y a le conflit entre les droits nationaux et les droits coutumiers, la problématique de l'accaparement des terres, de leur gestion.
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Communautés d’Afrique résistent aux plantations industrielles de palmiers à huile, même en temps de Covid-19 Vivafrik | 18 juil 2020
Alors que les entreprises d’huile de palme se présentent comme des donateurs charitables pendant la pandémie, les communautés vivant dans et autour de ces plantations racontent une autre histoire.
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Algérie : Nécessité de constitutionnaliser la protection des terres agricoles et ressources en eau APS | 15 jui 2020
L’Union nationale des paysans algériens a mis l’accent sur l’impératif de la constitutionnalisation de la protection des terres agricoles et des ressources en eau ainsi que la constitutionnalisation du Haut conseil de l’agriculture qui sera "un rempart" pour la préservation des terres agricoles de toutes formes d’agression.
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Komnas HAM Papua: Tindakan aparat keamanan perusahaan sawit berlebihan VoA Indonesia | 27 Jul 2020
Komisi Nasional HAM Perwakilan Papua menyimpulkan ada tindakan kekerasan berlebihan dalam kasus kematian Marius Betera, seorang petani di kawasan perkebunan sawit milik Korindo Group di Kabupaten Boven Digul, Provinsi Papua. Marius meninggal pada 16 Mei lalu, setelah bertikai dengan seorang anggota polisi, yang bertugas di kawasan perusahaan itu.
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Brasil: Harvard investiu quase meio bilhão de dólares em terras do Cerrado marcadas por conflitos Mongabay | 27 Jul 2020
O fundo de investimentos da universidade norte-americana possui pelo menos 405 mil hectares de terras no Cerrado brasileiro. Muitas fazendas colecionam violações de direitos contra pequenos agricultores e crimes ambientais.
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