Cochrane’s and Andrews’ The Transnational Land Rush in Africa: A Decade After the Spike provides a timely and necessary update of the land rush “a decade after the 2007/08 commodity price spike.”
- Afronomics Law
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18 November 2021
L'administration Bolsonaro travaille à légaliser et institutionnaliser l’accaparement des territoires des peuples originaires, explique chef brésilien du peuple Huni Kui à Emmanuel Macron
- Ouest France
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01 October 2021
Plus de 500 personnes se sont retrouvées pour une marche citoyenne contre l'accaparement des terres agricoles par le Domaine de Fontorbe en France
- Occitanie Tribune
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29 April 2021
A new report by Chain Reaction Research presents data on specific actors linked to Cerrado deforestation in 2020, including the quantified risk exposure of the largest soy traders, meatpackers, and retailers.
Three leading climate and human rights nonprofits have asked the prosecutor at the International Criminal Court in the Hague to pursue rampant “land grabbing” by the government of Cambodia and its commerce partners as a crime against humanity under the court’s jurisdiction.
- Inside Climate News
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23 Mar 2021
Une lettre ouverte de 200 organisations à l'AFD souligne qu'"il n’est plus à démontrer que les activités des banques publiques de développement ont alimenté des violations des droits humains (telles représailles, accaparement de terres et expulsions forcées) sans que les communautés affectées ne puisse accéder à quelconque remède utile."
Aquisições de terras em larga escala — que cobrem pelo menos 200 hectares — contribuem para a destruição das florestas tropicais.
Study finds that, compared with similar areas that have not seen private investment, areas with large-scale land acquisitions had higher forest loss in 52% of cases.
- Carbon Brief
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23 June 2020
Uganda’s government is supporting the rapid growth of extractive industries, but ranged against this is the swift growth of an eco-feminist movement that regards protection of the environment as essential to the protection of human rights.
Por qué las granjas solares se combinan sorprendentemente bien con los tomates, patatas, pimientos, etc. Qué ventajas y beneficios aporta la Agrofotovoltaica (agricultura + fotovoltaica)
- Agrofotovoltaica: Combinar paneles solares con agricultura
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23 October 2019
Bank of America’s Specialty Asset Management group manages more than 94,000 assets with a value of $13.6 billion for individuals and institutions looking for timberland, farms, ranches, energy interests, or real estate.
Two years ago Alfred Brownell was forced to flee Liberia after a successful campaign against a foreign palm oil plantation led to death threats and intimidation
Combattre. Un verbe plein de sens sur ces rives du fleuve Moungo. Reportage sur le conflit qui perdure entre la SOCAPALM et les paysans riverains.
- TV5MONDE
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13 November 2018
Une nouvelle enquête internationale révèle que la production mondiale de viande entraîne en Argentine et au Paraguay des violations des droits humains, y compris l'accaparement des terres
La question de l’accaparement des terres et de l’eau est devenue un problème lancinant qui affecte les communautés rurales et la petite paysannerie. Le Maroc n’échappe pas à ce fléau.
- Attac Maroc
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10 November 2017
Plus de 50 organisations de la société civile dénoncent le risque de voir l’Accord de Paris accroitre l’accaparement des terres plutôt que de favoriser la transition de nos modèles agricoles et alimentaires
- CCFD-Terre Solidaire
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15 November 2016
Declaration from international conference on agrarian reform held in Marabá, Pará, Brazil, 17 April 2016 attended by more than 130 representatives of La Via Campesina member organizations and allies from four continents, 10 regions and 28 countries of the world.
- Via Campesina
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22 April 2016
Ce financement représente toute l’hypocrisie de l’aide française au développement qui finance, via des paradis fiscaux, une entreprise qui pratique l’accaparement de terres en Afrique, relate Mediapart.
- Mediapart
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15 February 2016
Oil palm plantations have sprung up at breakneck speed across Indonesia’s ravaged hinterlands, eating away at the forests and propelling this country of 250 million to become the world’s sixth-largest emitter of greenhouse gases.
- Mongabay
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07 December 2015
A day after a judge suspended operations of a palm-oil company suspected of causing a massive fish die-off on a Guatemalan river, three community leaders were abducted by company workers and an outspoken local teacher was murdered.
"Behind the impetus for this law are the interests of Monsanto, Nestlé, Syngenta, Cargill and other corporations that want to take our lands."
Les expropriations foncières en Mauritanie ne visent que les terres contrôlées par les Noirs du pays, négro-africains et haratines, toujours au profit de la couche arabe beydane (maures blancs).
A group of potential investors from Trinidad and Tobago were in Guyana last week to scout local lands suitable for large-scale farming initiatives, as part of an MOU between the two countries signed last year.
- Stabroek News
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19 December 2014
A New York tycoon won a sweetheart deal to build a massive "sustainable" palm oil plantation in Cameroon. What followed were accusations of intimidation, corruption, bribery, and deceit.
- Foreign Policy
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11 July 2014
Envía un correo electrónico a la empresa Herakles Farms para reclamarle que deje de intimidar a Nasako Besingi y otros defensores de las comunidades locales y los bosques.
Des activistes camerounais au tribunal pour protestation pacifique contre un accapareur de terres de Wall Street
"Nous appelons à une grande mobilisation pour stopper l’accaparement des terres et soutenir les luttes paysannes locales."
Logging companies in PNG are using special agricultural leases to clear vast tracts of rainforest timber, on the promise of roads and economic development for remote villages. Jemima Garrett investigates.
Recently, the Federal Government of Nigeria signed a Joint Venture Agreement on Commercial Rice farming with Calvin Burgess, owner and principal promoter of the Oklahoma-based Dominion Farms Limited.
- Elombah News
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24 February 2012
The Guardian (Tanzania) discusses with Stanslaus Nyembea, Programme Officer for Lawyers Environmental Action Team (LEAT), on foreign investments and land grabbing in Tanzania
- The Guardian
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24 January 2012