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20 Oct 2022
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Repression for land and profits Bulatlat | 20 Oct 2022
Over the past five years, at least two people from rural communities have been killed weekly in the struggles against land grabs, based on estimates by the Pesticide Action Network Asia Pacific
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Liberia: 22 communities sue Salala Rubber Corp., Liberian Gov’t Daily Observer | 20 Oct 2022
Residents of 22 indigenous Kpelle communities, dispossessed of their customary land, cultural sites, and livelihoods, have filed a groundbreaking legal action against the Salala Rubber Corporation (Socfin group) and the Liberian government.
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BUA Group rejects Kogi govt’s 50,000-hectare land, says it’s unfit for its project Premium Times | 18 Oct 2022
The Kogi State House of Assembly, in Nigeria, had directed the group to appear before it, insisting no payment has been made to consummate the 2012 transaction.
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NFA land giveaway bonanza turns Luweero farmers into destitute. Witness Radio | 17 Oct 2022
The insatiable thirst for carbon credit schemes has left many smallholder farmer communities in Uganda grappling with the life-threatening effects of violent land grabs
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Indigenous Cambodians stripped of ancestral land Mekong Eye | 17 Oct 2022
In Cambodia, the Bunong people’s sacred forest became a rubber plantation as the government took their commune’s land and leased it to French firm Socfin-KCD and its Cambodian private partner.
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So what is happening in the Bas-Mangoky in Madagascar? TANY Collective | 15 Oct 2022
The project to cultivate 60,000 ha is "suspended" until the Malagasy state delivers on the investor's demand for preliminary development work to be done. TANY Collective offers an analysis.
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Zambia finance minister eager to renegotiate debt, awaits China's team Reuters | 15 Oct 2022
Zambia plans on attracting overseas investment in export agriculture by opening up 100,000 ha and by using a $300 million World Bank loan to improve roads, electricity and dams.
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Kaduna govt allocates 800,000 hectares for agriculture The Star | 13 Oct 2022
Nigeria's Kaduna State Government declared its readiness to utilise over 800,000 hectares of virgin land located for agricultural purposes at the 7th Kaduna Investment Summit.
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Les législateurs américains tirent la sonnette d’alarme après l’achat par une entreprise chinoise de terres agricoles américaines près d’une base aérienne. Blog du Démocrate | 18 oct 2022
L’achat de terres agricoles américaines par une société agricole chinoise, Fufeng Group, à proximité d’une base de l’US Air Force, a alarmé les sénateurs américains, qui ont écrit une lettre au Government Accountability Office soulignant les ramifications de sécurité de telles acquisitions.
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Cameroun : Socapalm et Hevecam: Deux ennemies jurées des communautés villageoises Panorama Papers | 18 oct 2022
Les riverains accusent les mastodontes de l’agriculture extensive de spoliation de terre et leur mauvais traitement des riveraines.
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Mais que se passe-t-il dans le Bas-Mangoky à Madagascar ? Collectif TANY | 15 oct 2022
Le projet d'exploitation de 60 000 ha est "suspendu" jusqu'à ce que l'Etat malgache fassent des aménagements exigés par l'investisseur. Analyse du Collectif TANY.
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1700 hectares à un Libano-sénégalais : Mbane désavoue son maire… Senego | 15 oct 2022
Le Collectif contre l’accaparement des Terres du Walo a fait face à la presse ce samedi pour décrier un « harcèlement » de la part de l’administration locale « avec à sa tête leur maire« .
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