As seen on YubaNet BOGOTA” COLOMBIA March 21″ 2013 – A new study reveals that governments in Latin America have returned to natural resources extraction…
As seen on Global Food For Thought By Renee Giovarelli and D. Hien Tran Renee Giovarelli is Executive Director of the Landesa. Forty years after the…
Palm fruits at a palm oil plantation in Talun Kenas” North Sumatra. (EPA Photo/Dedi Sahputra) Environmental advocacy group Greenpeace has welcomed the launch of a…
As seen on Reuters By James Pomfret SHANGPU” China – Torched vehicles and violent clashes in the Chinese village of Shangpu as farmers protest…
As seen on the Forest Peoples Programme Sophie Chao” Forest Peoples Programme 25 February” 2013 The Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) is a not-for-profit…
As seen on Nourishing the Planet By Laura Reynolds The Rights and Resources Initiative (RRI)” a coalition of groups working for the rights of rural…
With activists killed in Brazil” Cambodia” the Philippines” and elsewhere” 2012 may have been the most violent year yet By Fred Pearce for Guardian Environment…
As seen on the Guardian Communities have more hope than ever of seeing off companies trying to acquire their land” with support from media…
As seen on the China Post By Anne Chaon” AFP PARIS–Companies that invest in land and resources in emerging economies risk financial and public relations…
As seen on Democratic Voice of Burma A crowd in Malaysia protests the construction of the Myitsone dam in Burma's Kachin state. (Reuters) Burma has…
As seen on Global Post Companies that invest in land and resources in emerging economies risk financial and public relations disasters if local inhabitants feel…
As seen on YubaNet Myanmar is Latest Flashpoint in Alarming Trend London” UK February 5″ 2013 – Land conflicts continue to wreak havoc on economic…
As seen on AllAfrica There continues to be a whirlwind of agitation sweeping the coastal district of Butaw over the biggest investment Sinoe County has…
As seen on AllAfrica The Land Commission (LC) has assured ordinary Liberians that their rights will be protected in the land ownership of the country….