In Brazil's Cerrado region, large-scale farms have increasingly laid claim to natural lands – often held without deed by traditional communities – with agribusiness counting them as their reserves.
Lutte contre le changement climatique, l’évasion fiscale ou encore l’accaparement des terres : autant de réformes censurées, vidées de leur substance ou avortées ces dernières années en France. Le rôle des lobbies là-dedans ?
Tanzania has attracted huge interest as a destination for large-scale agricultural investment due to sufficient land and cheap labour. As traditional laws that once protected village land weaken, indigenous communities and farmers have repeatedly lost chunks of land facilitated by foreign investors.
- InDepth News
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05 August 2018
A new book published in Japan says China is buying up land, including farmland, in the northern prefecture and turning the island into a province of its own
- Asia Times
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20 November 2017
While the Law on how to sell and buy agricultural land prohibits foreigners from buying land in Moldova, then the Land Code does not provide such restrictions.
A Bangkok court ruled that about 3,000 Cambodians could proceed with a class-action suit against Mitr Phol, the world’s fourth-largest sugar producer. Farmers in Oddar Meanchey province are seeking compensation after the Cambodian government allocated land to the company for sugar plantations.
Eva Bande was jailed for her role as a community organizer against land grab by extractive industries on the Indonesian island, Sulawesi. Ten years on, her fight continues.
- Mongabay
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01 December 2020
Un nouveau rapport d'une alliance d'organisations de la société civile dévoile l'un des échecs les plus scandaleux des investissements des banques de développement dans l'agriculture.
- RIAO et al
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28 January 2021
Investors trying to decide what world farmland market in which to allocate capital may want to consider an advantage the Canadian market can offer – the ability to participate via an open-ended structure.
Le président de la Mauritanie annule l'octroi de 3 200 ha à l'AAAID (contrat de 2015) et prone à sa place des contrats tripartites Etat-investisseurs-populations
- Le 360 Afrique
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21 June 2021
Aminata Massaquoi of the Informal Alliance Against Industrial Oil Palm Plantations in Africa speaks about the struggles of women in Sierra Leone opposed to the oil palm plantations of Socfin and other companies.
Au Québec, les terres agricoles ne sont plus «achetables» car il faut payer jusqu’à 25 000 dollars l’hectare, dans certains cas extrêmes
- Le Soleil
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23 November 2021
« Il veut investir dans le secteur de l’agriculture. Il ne s’agit absolument pas d’acquérir des milliers d’hectares pour y faire nous-même des cultures, mais de fournir un appui technique et financier aux agriculteurs locaux, dans le respect des meilleures pratiques »
- Jeune Afrique
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24 June 2022
La REVATED a porté plainte contre Frank Timis, les sociétés Senhuile et Les Fermes de la Téranga et Gora Seck pour fraude, corruption et cession nébuleuse de 20 0000 ha
Quand on interroge les communautés rurales du pays sur leurs difficultés, c’est le manque de terre qui est cité en premier. Et les politiques menées par le gouvernement n’arrangent rien !
- CNCD-11.11.11
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01 September 2022
As the palm oil industry swept through Indonesia, it transformed millions of hectares of land into plantations. An opaque system supposed to improve rural livelihoods has left villagers waiting for profits — and answers.
- The Gecko Project
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12 December 2022
Episode 1 of a new podcast that highlights the different layers of oppression women face once industrial plantations invade their territories.
- WRM & WONARPI
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17 January 2023
Ten years after the signing of their first lease, we interviewed 30 inhabitants about their experiences and opinions concerning the activities of the Italian JTF-Tozzi Green in Madagascar.
- Collectif TANY
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13 February 2023
Cuyama Valley farmers and ranchers have launched a boycott of supermarket carrots to protest a water rights lawsuit that was filed against them by Bolthouse and Grimmway farms, major carrot farmers in the valley.
Le magazine annuel de FIAN Belgium présente des témoignages sur la repression contre les defenseurs des terres face à des entreprises comme SIAT, PHC/Feronia ou Socfin/Bolloré
- FIAN Belgium
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30 November 2023
Au Congo-Brazzaville, le projet BaCaSi mené par TotalEnergies pour compenser ses émissions de gaz à effets de serre prévoit la plantation d’acacias sur 38 000 hectares de terre. Alerté par la Commission diocésaine Justice et paix de Pointe-Noire (CDJP), le CCFD-Terre Solidaire se mobilise pour obtenir une meilleure prise en compte des populations impactées par le projet.