By: Bill Vorley
Date: August 31st 2016
Source: The Guardian
Linking low-income communities to the supply chains of large corporations - so-called inclusive business - has been a major trend over the past decade.
By: Hanna Hindstrom
Date: September 2nd 2016
Source: the Diplomat
By: Jack Davies
Date: August 15th 2016
Source: Phnom Penh Post
Smallholder farmers have a crucial role to play in tempering the growing pains of Cambodia’s transition to an industrialised economy, but unless something is done, they will face a land shortage in the coming years, according to the authors of a new report.
By: Karin Goodwin
Date: August 14th 2016
Source: Herald Scotland
THE SCOTTISH Government must stop giving “carte blanche” to rich industrialists who are buying up vast swathes of Scotland’s countryside and instead bring about more radical land reform that benefits local communities, according to campaigners.
By: Sek Odom
Date: August 12th 2016
Source: Cambodia Daily
Representatives of evicted families and a sugarcane plantation owned by a prominent CPP senator announced an agreement on Thursday that provides compensation ranging from $500 to $5,000 to eligible villagers after a five-year battle over land.
The deal was meant to put an end to claims of land-grabbing against Senator Ly Yong Phat’s Phnom Penh Sugar Company.
By: Jennifer Duncan and Jaron Vogelsang
Date: August 10th 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
By: Kann Vicheika
Date: August 5th 2016
Source: VOA Khmer
The protesters from six villages in Koh Kong’s Sre Ambel and Botum Sakor districts claim that Koh Kong Sugar and Koh Kong Plantation encroached on their farmland.
By: Nyein Nyein
Date: August 3rd 2016
Source: The Irrawaddy
RANGOON — Land confiscation and rights abuses linked to the continued militarization of ethnic minority regions in southeastern of Burma has had particularly adverse impacts on women, ethnic Karen human rights advocates said at a press conference in Rangoon.
By: Severianus Endi
Date: August 2nd 2016
Source: The Jakarta Post
Hundreds of residents from several hamlets in West Kalimantan have fled their homes to avoid arrest over their alleged involvement in a conflict with an oil palm company operating plantations in the area.
By: Ron Corben & Bryan Lynn
Date: August 1st 2016
Source: VOA
An international human rights organization says Southeast Asia is facing increasing conflicts and violence over land grab activity. A “land grab” relates to taking land quickly, forcefully and often illegally.
By: Evelyn Lirri
Date: June 19th 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
BUGALA ISLAND, Uganda (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Mariam Nakakeeto listened quietly to the grievances of fellow farmers gathered outside the grounds of a local church on Bugala Island, by the shores of Lake Victoria.
