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European parliament slams G7 food project in Africa
By: Cécile Barbière
Date: Wednesday 8 June 2016
Source: The Guardian
Euro-MPs criticise G7-led food security programme, saying it pushes agribusiness and GM to the detriment of biodiversity and small-scale farmers
The global land grab as modern day corporate colonialism
US: Indigenous Women Leaders of Dakota Access Pipeline Resistance to Speak Out For Protection of Earth and Water
By: Jade Begay
Date: September 28th 2016
Source: CommonDreams
Cannon Ball, North Dakota - Women of the Standing Rock Sioux people and Indigenous women allies from across North America (Turtle Island) stand on the front-line of ongoing actions to halt construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline and protect land, water, community, sacred sites and lifeways.
Kenyan widows branded witches and ousted from land
By: Katy Migiro
Date: 23 June 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
Millions of widows across Africa are left destitute after being evicted from their homes and are too poor or uneducated to seek legal redress, campaigners say.
Can Pepsi and Coke end land grabs for sugar?
A worker cuts sugar cane in Brazil. Will new supplier policies cut down on land grabs for sugar?
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The Sirinhaem River twists to the southern Atlantic through the Brazilian state of Pernambuco, breaking into a small delta once lush with mangrove trees where Maria Nazarete dos Santos is no longer allowed to live.
Women Are Climbing Africa's Highest Peak to Fight for Land Rights
By: Sarah McColl
Date: October 7th 2016
Source: Take Part
Organizers of the Mt. Kilamanjaro ascent promise to take "the issues of rural women farmers to the top.”
As Californians Pump Groundwater, Land Sinks and Aquifers Shrink
Black farmers to march to Union Buildings over land reform
By: Africa News Agency
Date: October 24th 2016
Source: ENCA
RUSTENBURG - Black farmers will march to the Union Buildings in Pretoria to demonstrate their dissatisfaction over the slow pace of land reform.
African Farmers Association of South Africa (Afasa) secretary general Aggrey Mahanjana said land reform was a ticking time bomb.
Venezuela: indigenous women speak out against miners and armed insurgents
Source: Forest Peoples Programme
Two indigenous women’s organisations in the Venezuelan State of Amazonas have denounced the activities of armed groups who identify themselves as Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (FARC) and who are working with illegal miners in the Autana area.
Philippines: Gov’t plans ‘modified’ land conversion moratorium
By: Chino S. Leyco
Date: November 8th 2016
Source: Manila Bulletin
Davao City – President Rodrigo R. Duterte will come up with a “modified” executive order governing the moratorium on land conversion, the National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA) announced yesterday.
