Events Database

49 historical macro events · 2010–today

Filtered by:international land deals✕ clear
DateEvent
Sep 25, 12Conflict over land in Cambodia is taking a dangerous turn
Aug 31, 12Economic disaster beckons as water-hungry investors buy up Africa's land
Aug 29, 12As Colombia jails army general, NGOs combating land grabs should take note
Aug 3, 12Cambodian soldiers accused of land rights abuse in Prey Trolach forest
Jul 30, 12Logging companies gain easy access to PNG's forests, says Greenpeace
Jul 12, 12Global fight for natural resources 'has only just begun'
Jul 5, 12Guatemala farmers losing their land to Europe's demand for biofuels
Jul 5, 12Tanzania: land rights v biofuel development – in pictures
Jun 26, 12UK investors gather for controversial Africa land summit
Jun 12, 12Africa land deals lead to water giveaway
May 20, 12Fred Pearce: Land grabbing has more of an impact on the world's poor than climate change
May 17, 12West Papua's indigenous people hurt by Indonesia's resource extraction – video
May 17, 12Is environmentally sustainable water, energy and land for all possible?
May 17, 12Beleaguered West Papuans left to count the cost of Indonesia's palm oil boom
May 14, 12UN urges Cambodia to hold companies to account over land disputes
May 11, 12Global land deal guidelines could pave way to world without hunger
May 10, 12Uganda threatens to expel Oxfam and NGOs over land-grabbing claims
Apr 27, 12New international land deals database reveals rush to buy up Africa
Apr 23, 12Campaigners claim World Bank helps facilitate land grabs in Africa
Apr 17, 12The Rio+20 Earth summit must back peasant farmers on land rights
Apr 11, 12Sierra Leone: local resistance grows as investors snap up land
Apr 3, 12Chinese villagers clash with police in land-grab protests
Mar 14, 12Negotiators reach consensus on global land governance guidelines
Mar 6, 12What should companies do when states offer prime land on a platter?
Mar 2, 12How African governments allow farmers to be pushed off their land
Feb 29, 12Liberia land deals with foreign firms 'could sow seeds of conflict'
Feb 3, 12Cambodia police arrest women protesting against forced evictions
Feb 2, 12Global land grab could trigger conflict, report says
Jan 17, 12Thousands 'forcibly relocated' in Ethiopia, says HRW report
Dec 14, 11Rush for land a wake-up call for poorer countries, report says
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