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Colombia: a community resists land-grabbing and conflict
Top palm oil producer sues green group over deforestation allegations
By: Adam Vaughan
Date: May 9th 2016
Source: The Guardian
Malaysian palm giant, IOI, lost business after it was suspended from the Roundtable for Sustainable Palm Oil’s certification scheme over deforestation allegations in Indonesia
Rio's favela dwellers fight to stave off evictions in runup to Brazil World Cup
Land Matters for Children: A Photo Essay
June 1st marks International Children’s Day, a global celebration of children and an opportunity to bring special attention to how secure land tenure positively affects children. Evidence from a number of countries suggests that when women have secure rights to land and other assets their children and their communities also benefit. For example, in countries where women have wea
Land for people, or corporations? - India
Earlier this month, a People’s Tribunal on Land Rights was held in Hyderabad, presided over by Justice (retd) Wajiuddin Ahmed, and heavily attended by peasants and activists. Continued failure of governments to restore land to the landless, and trickery in token farmland distribution, was exposed and decried.
EU must stop supporting the New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition
Land Grabbing in Africa, the new colonialism
The silent recolonisation of Africa is happening on a mass scale. To address this issue, the first Africa Conference on Land Grabs is set to take place in South Africa on 27–30 Oct. 2014. Land is the source of life and death, but it might not always be with us.
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Land grab protest in Senegal, 2012
Land of the ‘mystery’ cocoa - Trinidad and Tobago
Rajiv Sookeo, office manager at the Montserrat Cocoa Farmers Co-operative, left, and farmer Jerome Pino, tend to cocoa beans being sun-dried in the cocoa house on San Antonio Estate. PHOTOS: YVONNE BABOOLAL
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FAO sets wheels in motion to help launch 2015 world forum on access to land
Source: FAO
14/11/2014 - 2nd meeting of the organizing committee on access to land calls for civil society organizations and governmental institutions to mobilize and launch global debate on land tenure and investment agreements
New Publication: Governing Natural Resources
The Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment (CCSI) has recently published an outcome note from a roundtable focused on lessons learned from good governance initiatives for extractive industry investments and large land-based agricultural investments.