Some community members accuse Socfin of land-grabbing and pollution. We visited the company’s plantation in Malen to find out what’s happening beneath the palm fronds.
- China Dialogue
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08 July 2022
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
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.
Huit ans après la publication de son premier rapport sur l'accaparement des terres, GRAIN publie un nouvel ensemble de données qui offre des précisions sur près de 500 cas d'accaparement des terres dans le monde entier.
The grazing lands of the Maasai community in East Africa are being viewed as the next frontier for land grabbing.
- Intercontinental Cry
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27 November 2014
Last week representatives of communities, indigenous peoples and NGOs met in Palangka Raya, Central Kalimantan, Indonesia to discuss deforestation and the rights of forest peoples.
Women in Sierra Leone are losing their land and livelihoods in the face of land grabs, discriminatory traditions and customs, and the lack of a strong legal framework, reports Mariama Tarawallie of the Sierra Leone Network on the Right to Food (SiLNoRF)
- Open Democracy
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16 December 2013
On the margins of the annual World Bank land and poverty conference in April a donor roundtable agreed to establish a first global donor working group on land, which was launched recently. Video interview with the first chair of the group, from DFID.
- Donor Platform
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01 September 2013
The EU's bioeconomy vision is fuelling land grabs in Africa.
A land measuring and titling campaign launched and financed by Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen lacks transparency and accountability and could leave thousands dispossessed from their land.
Hassad Food knows how to shop. The $1b subsidiary of Qatar’s sovereign wealth fund finalised a $500m agreement last year to grow wheat & rice on 100,000 ha in Sudan and has announced plans to invest $700m worldwide this year.
- The National
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02 September 2010
Area nearly the size of France purchased, leased for food production around the world Africa, South America, parts of Europe targeted by cash-rich, food-poor nations
- Circle of Blue
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17 November 2009
Civil society, including African farmers unions, need to educate local people that such land deals are not in their interests, however couched in 'win-win' terminology they appear to be.
Africa’s agrarian questions are not adequately addressed by simply asking, “What is the role of African smallholders?”