It concerns 5000 acres of the Somawathiya National Park in Sri Lanka being cleared for a large-scale banana plantation by an international agribusiness company, Dole.
AFSA is delighted to launch a series of five national reports, within AFSA’s Our Land is Our Life land rights initiative in these countries.
Botum Sakor National Park in southern Cambodia has lost at least 30,000 ha of forest over the past three decades. Environmental degradation go back to the late 1990s when Cambodian government began handing out economic land concessions for commercial plantations and tourist infrastructure.
This paper highlights the role played by national-level land politics and domestic elites using material drawn from interviews with government officials, investors, and civil society organizations in Mozambique.
The food estate program will shift the character of Indonesian agriculture from family farming to corporate based food and agriculture production and weaken national food sovereignty.
A pending agreement for Iran to graze sheep inside Armenia has sparked a furor among Armenian environmentalists and nationalists over whether or not the prospective deal poses a threat to the country’s national security.
Sécuriser les petites exploitations familiales et attirer les investisseurs. C’est la double ambition de la réforme de la loi sur le Domaine national dont la réflexion vient d’être entamée.
The Tanzanian government has held a series of stakeholders meetings to enable different interest groups to present their views on the draft National Land Policy, 2016.
The National Family Farm Coalition is excited to announce the launch of its new Land Monitor site, an online hub for documenting on-the-ground stories of farmland grabs in the US.
L'Australie va créer un registre national répertoriant les détenteurs étrangers de terre agricole australienne, a annoncé mardi la chef du gouvernement, alors qu'une partie du monde rural s'inquiète de la vente de terres, à des Chinois notamment.
An MOU targeting $1 billion in aquaculture investments in Mauritania was signed between the National Prawn Company of Saudi Arabia and the Islamic Corporation for the Development of the Private Sector, with Saudi-based Al Rajhi also involved.
Un séminaire national sur le phonème de l’accaparement des terres se tiendra à Dakar à partir du 18 mai prochain, à l’initiative du Réseau africain pour le développement intégré (RADI)
The chairman of Australia's Foreign Investment Review Board has likened his role to walking a barbed-wire tightrope, as he attempts to balance the interests of investors and the need for capital with community concern about foreign sales.
The new policy will address post-war conflict over land rights, land grabbing, urban informal settlements as well as conflicts over access to land with pasture and water. Land grabbing, which is the acquisition without regard for the interests of the rights holders, and disagreements regarding county and payam boundaries, will be addressed by the policy.
In a rare rejection of New Zealand's Overseas Investment Office application, Canadians have been barred from buying more than 4500ha of South Island farmland.
Since 2010, the unpleasant experience, pain and suffering from the Merauke Integrated Food and Energy Estate program have not ceased and have continued to pile up
"This initiative represents the strengthening of our struggle against the aggression we are facing, against the privatization of land and in defence of our natural resources"
"There is currently more land granted in concessions, than there is land being cultivated for rice."
Travail de concertation nationale entre les différents acteurs engagés dans la lutte contre l’accaparement des terres agricoles et la promotion des semences locales au Bénin pour garantir la souveraineté alimentaire.
The buy-up of prime agricultural land by Shenhua has sparked a furious political debate in Australia
Between 2002 and 2011 the Papua New Guinea government issued more than 75 SABL leases covering more than 50,000 square kilometres of land. The leases were the subject of a Commission of Inquiry which found widespread fraud and other abuses.
Treasurer Scott Morrison was accused of playing politics with foreign investment after he decided to stop a Chinese-led consortium buying Australia's biggest private landholder, buying S.Kidman and Co.
New research by OECD Watch and BHRRC shows that 64% of reprisals from companies against activists occur in the land-intensive extractive and agriculture sectors.
The limits of law to address displacement and dispossession are not due to a lack of institutionalising international good governance norms into domestic-level legal frameworks.
As land becomes more expensive in the US, wealth becomes a deciding factor in who gets cut out versus who has the opportunities and the means to procure land.
Jour d’audience dans l’affaire initiée contre Bolloré par un collectif d’ONGs coordonné par Sherpa au sujet des pratiques non éthiques de la Socapalm camerounaise, directement liée à Bolloré.
Hearing day in the case initiated against Bolloré by a collective of NGOs coordinated by Sherpa regarding the unethical practices of the Cameroonian Socapalm, directly linked to Bolloré.
This policy brief summarizes detailed research on land conflicts in Uganda's Kalangala and Buvuma islands and recommends steps to the main players to avert them.
L’attribution de titres fonciers et des mêmes droits aux personnes, « quel que soit leur nationalité et leur statut juridique » est suicidaire pour la nation malgache, dénonce deux structures de la société civile
Liberia has long been plagued by disputes over land for farming and forestry including double land sales, corporate land grabbing, local disputes over territory, and equal gender access to land.
