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L'américain APC se lance dans le palmier à huile en Guinée Bissau

L'américain African Palm Corp dispose déjà de 1,5 million d'hectares en palmiers et projette de porter cette superficie à 7 Mha à travers l'Afrique occidentale au cours des cinq prochaines années
Farm group opposes CAFOs, foreign-owned farmland

Supporters of family farming who oppose the rise of big-business agricultural practices in Missouri gathered to lobby legislators against concentrated animal feeding operations and foreign ownership of Missouri farmland
Campaign launch: Celebrating and defending customary land

ACT NOW! launches a new multi-media campaign 'Celebrating and Defending Customary Land’-- the most valuable and important asset available to most Papua New Guineans.
Les citoyens étrangers n’auront pas le droit de posséder des terres agricoles en Arménie

Un ensemble de modifications apportées au Code foncier de l’Arménie, adopté par le Parlement en deuxième et dernière lecture, prive les citoyens étrangers du droit de posséder des terres agricoles dans le pays.
Terra Firma seeks premium for 'Project Ribeye' Australian farm sale

With first round bids due imminently, the high expectations could leave foreign bidders in the box seat, testing the government’s appetite for foreign ownership of sensitive assets less than two years after it rejected China-led bids for a major energy grid and agricultural company.
Malian farmers denounce land grabbing

A farmers' rights organization reports on a growing trend of land grabbing, and calls for a fast enforcement of the 2017 land law whose decrees were issued last month.
Rights in poorer nations must be upheld as Thai firms go abroad, activists say

For the first time, plaintiffs from Cambodia have filed a class-action lawsuit against a Thai company after they were forcibly removed from their homes to make way for a sugarcane plantation
Al Dahra Group close to 200 million euro deal for Agricost, Romania’s largest grain producer

Abu Dhabi-based Al Dahra Group is close to a 200 million Euro deal (US$245 million) to acquire Agricost Braila, the largest farm in Europe.
Multinationale luxembourgeoise et droits humains : Socfin face à ses responsabilités

Face aux critiques, Socfin s’engage à mettre en œuvre une politique de «responsabilité sociale». Mais des doutes subsistent sur sa mise en application concrète.
L’agrobusiness, un moyen d’expolier les paysans de leurs terres

« L’agrobusiness est le prétexte par lequel nos terres sont bradées avec la complicité de nos dirigeants »

L'américain APC se lance dans le palmier à huile en Guinée Bissau

L'américain African Palm Corp dispose déjà de 1,5 million d'hectares en palmiers et projette de porter cette superficie à 7 Mha à travers l'Afrique occidentale au cours des cinq prochaines années

19 Apr 2018 Commodafrica

Argentina: Advierten “desastre anunciado” por avances extranjeros para pasta de celulosa en la región

El informe apunta a la extranjerización de las tierras para favorecer intereses de empresas europeas de pastas de celulosa y papeleras, en detrimento de los pequeños productores y del resto de la población en la región mesopotámica.

19 Apr 2018 Corrientes Hoy

Ghosts in the machine

Second installment of Indonesia for Sale, an in-depth series of articles on the corruption behind Indonesia’s deforestation and land rights crisis. Ghosts in the machine exposing land deals behind the downfall of Indonesia’s top judge.

18 Apr 2018 The Gecko Project

Audio: Impacts of agriculture on Brazil’s Cerrado region

Mongabay journalists report on the impacts of the rapid expansion of agribusiness on the region’s environment and people.

18 Apr 2018 Mongabay

Farm group opposes CAFOs, foreign-owned farmland

Supporters of family farming who oppose the rise of big-business agricultural practices in Missouri gathered to lobby legislators against concentrated animal feeding operations and foreign ownership of Missouri farmland

18 Apr 2018 News Tribune

Japan's Nippon Life makes a US$92.5 million offshore farmland investment

Tokyo-based Nippon Life Insurance Company makes its first investment in a farmland investment fund through a US$92.5 million investment in an overseas farmland investment fund managed by Hancock Natural Resources Group

17 Apr 2018 GAI

Campaign launch: Celebrating and defending customary land

ACT NOW! launches a new multi-media campaign 'Celebrating and Defending Customary Land’-- the most valuable and important asset available to most Papua New Guineans.

17 Apr 2018 ActNow

Les citoyens étrangers n’auront pas le droit de posséder des terres agricoles en Arménie

Un ensemble de modifications apportées au Code foncier de l’Arménie, adopté par le Parlement en deuxième et dernière lecture, prive les citoyens étrangers du droit de posséder des terres agricoles dans le pays.

17 Apr 2018 Armenews

Brasil: Pará lidera o ranking de assassinatos por conflitos de terra

Nestes 32 anos, o estado do Pará teve um total de 466 casos de conflitos no campo que resultaram em um total de 702 mortes, levando a região Norte a liderar o ranking destes casos.

17 Apr 2018 Jornal GGN

How much land is in foreign hands?

The Zambia Land Alliance has challenged government to make public how much land is currently in the hands of foreigners.

16 Apr 2018 Times of Zambia

Argentina: La venta de Sancor decreta el fin de ciclo en la lechería

Los asociados de Sancor aprobaron el jueves por unanimidad en una asamblea extraordinaria, la oferta de inversión y asociación presentada por Adecoagro y abrieron la puerta para que la segunda industria láctea del país deje de ser una cooperativa y el 90% de su capital accionario pase a manos privadas.

15 Apr 2018 La capital

Uruguay: Firma peruana compra tierras para producir cítricos

La empresa peruana Camposol compró 1.000 hectáreas para cultivos de cítricos en el departamento de Salto

15 Apr 2018 El País

No to ProSAVANA Letter to Japan's Foreign Minister （河野太郎外務大臣宛レター和訳）

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14 Apr 2018 No to ProSAVANA Letter to Japan's Foreign Minister

Terra Firma seeks premium for 'Project Ribeye' Australian farm sale

With first round bids due imminently, the high expectations could leave foreign bidders in the box seat, testing the government’s appetite for foreign ownership of sensitive assets less than two years after it rejected China-led bids for a major energy grid and agricultural company.

13 Apr 2018 Reuters

Malian farmers denounce land grabbing

A farmers' rights organization reports on a growing trend of land grabbing, and calls for a fast enforcement of the 2017 land law whose decrees were issued last month.

12 Apr 2018 Ecofin

Chinese firm to study development potential of Bolaven Plateau

Laos government has authorised a Chinese firm to carry out a feasibility study in southern Laos, with a view to turning it into top agri-business and agri-tourism destination. Deputy Governor of Champassak province said the Chinese firm also intended to grow organic crops for export to China.

10 Apr 2018 Vientiane Times

Les réformes foncières en Afrique de l’Ouest doivent protéger les petits exploitants agricoles, selon un rapport de la Fao

Face au phénomène des accaparements de terres, les réformes engagées en Afrique de l’Ouest doivent protéger les petits exploitants

10 Apr 2018 Agence Ecofin

Rights in poorer nations must be upheld as Thai firms go abroad, activists say

For the first time, plaintiffs from Cambodia have filed a class-action lawsuit against a Thai company after they were forcibly removed from their homes to make way for a sugarcane plantation

10 Apr 2018 Reuters

Landcorp goes with back-up offer in Jericho Station sale after Chinese buyer withdraws

Landcorp Farming, the state-owned farmer trading as Pāmu Farms of New Zealand, has gone with a back-up bidder for its Jericho Station sheep and beef farm in Fiordland after the preferred foreign buyer withdrew.

10 Apr 2018 NZ Herald

Colombia: Indígenas Sikuani se oponen a ocupamiento de predios por empresa Poligrow

La comunidad de indígenas Sikuani que habitan en el resguardo de Caño Ovejas en Mapiripán, Meta manifestaron su oposición al ocupamiento y la siembra de palma de aceite por parte de la empresa Poligrow en predios que hacen parte de una demanda de restitución de tierra.

10 Apr 2018 Contagio Radio