By: Umaru Fofana
Date: February 5th 2016
Source: Reuters Africa
BO, Sierra Leone (Reuters) - A Sierra Leone court has convicted six people opposed to a palm oil project in which French conglomerate Bollore owns a major stake of destroying trees and inciting the local population to protest over
Publicado a 09/02/2016 às 16:45 por Ana Teresa Vaz
Este conjunto de seminários tem como objectivo apresentar as recentes reconfigurações da divisão internacional da produção alimentar e de comodities, as formas de penetração do capital nos países em desenvolvimento e os processos de resistência/
Date: August 1st 2016
Source: NTV Uganda
Members of Parliament have condemned government’s move, saying it’s suspect and could fuel land grabbing. They are vowing to oppose the amendment.
By: Mong Palatino
Date: September 23rd 2016
Source: Global Voices
By: Souha Touré
Date: December 21st 2016
Source: Ecofin Agency
(Ecofin Agency) - In order to curb land grabbing which is growing significantly, Tanzanian authorities have adopted a new land policy that brings to 33 years, from 99, the lease duration for foreigners, Eurasia Review reports.
Via Human Rights Watch
AUGUST 15, 2015
Burma: Land Rights Activists Are Newest Political Prisoners
Arrests in Karen State Target Those Assisting Farmers Fighting Land Grabs
Date: February 13th 2016
Source: Human Rights Watch
Halt Forced Eviction, Assess Claims to Chao Lay Ancestral Land
By: Bill Weinberg
Date: March 15th 2016
Source: World War 4 Report
By: Chris Arsenault
Date: August 5th 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
RIO DE JANEIRO (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Indigenous people living in Brazil's rainforest have welcomed a decision by the national environment agency to cancel a proposed mega-dam in the Amazon which they say would
By: Silas Gbandia
Date: September 28th 2016
Source: Equal Times
A former member of Sierra Leone’s parliament has spoken of his determination to put an end to what he describes as the “underhand deals” taking place between the authorities and international palm oil producers in his country.
The government of Angola granted a plot of 7,000 hectares in Kwanza Sul province to Cabo Verde (Cape Verde) for agricultural development, said Thursday the Cape Verdean ambassador to Angola, Francisco Veiga.
The ambassador, at the end of a courtesy visit to the governor of Kwanza Sul, Eusébio
By: Beverly Bell
Date: February 17th 2016
Source: Truth Out