Mitr Phol growing in Laos
- Bangkok Post
- 29 May 2015
Mitr Phol Group, Asia's biggest sugar producer, has earmarked 3.5 billion baht to double production in Laos, fed by a plantation area in the southern province of Savannakhet.
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Asia's agrarian reform in reverse: laws taking land out of small farmers' hands
- GRAIN
- 30 April 2015
Legislative changes now sweeping across Asia threaten to displace millions of peasant families, undermine local food systems and increase violent conflicts over land. Already, just six percent of Asia's farm owners hold around 66% of its farmland.
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Local groups pour capital in agriculture projects
- VietNamNet
- 19 Mar 2015
The head of Hoang Anh Gia Lai Group, Doan Nguyen Duc, now owns 46,000 ha of rubber, 10,000 ha of sugar cane and 6,000 ha of corn in Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia and Myanmar and plans to raise 236,000 cows in Laos.
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Champassak moves towards ‘land as equity' project model
- Vientiane Times
- 15 January 2015
Lao authorities granted the first ‘land as equity' project to a Chinese entrepreneur for a 10,000 ha plantation in Phonthong district.
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Laos plans to allow foreigners to purchase land in controversial move
- RFA
- 31 October 2014
Laos is to allow foreign investors to purchase land under a proposed law which some groups say would discriminate against locals and threaten national sovereignty.
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Chinese investors eye fruit plantations in Saravan
- Vientiane Times
- 29 September 2014
Chinese investors are eying the potential of multi-million dollar investments in banana and other tropical fruit plantation projects in Saravan province, according to the provincial deputy governor.
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Chinese authorities eye agricultural investment in Laos
- Vientiane Times
- 10 September 2014
Authorities of Quanzhou city in China’s Fujian province have expressed their interest in agricultural investment in growing rice and organic vegetables to supply the Chinese market.
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Laos “land grabs” drive subsistence farmers into deeper poverty
- IRIN
- 22 May 2014
Large-scale land leases in Laos are driven by foreign investment projects brokered between the government and private companies, which have increased in frequency in the past decade.
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Govt to assess land concession viability
- Vientiane Times
- 17 Mar 2014
The Lao government has approved hundreds of thousands of hectares in concessions, but has yet to identify how many hectares of land investors have already used or whether they have followed their original proposals.
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Asia's great land grab
- RFA
- 26 February 2014
Rising tension over land seizures is emerging as a critical issue in Asia. An RFA special report examines the changing dynamic of Asia’s Great Land Grab.
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Lao farmers confront police over land grab
- RFA
- 22 January 2014
A citizen video shows a rare confrontation between authorities and villagers in Bokeo Province, Northern Laos, where villagers gathered to block construction workers from digging up their rice fields for a Chinese investor.
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Chinese agricultural firm looking to invest in Champassak
- Vientiane Times
- 07 December 2013
A large Chinese investor is looking to secure a concession for 10,000 hectares of land on the Bolaven plateau in Champassak province, Laos PDR, for rice, small crops and cattle raising, according to provincial officials.
