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The President of Kenya, Uhuru Kenyatta operating a tractor during the launch the Galana Irrigation project in Tana River County, where, private investors are expected to acquire one million acres under irrigation. (Photo: Construction Review)
Mary Wanjiru is a farmer from Nyeri County in central Kenya. Experts say that Africa's extensive land subdivision is emerging as a significant threat to food security. (Photo: Miriam Gahtigah/IPS)
Indonesia's outgoing president Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono is against a draft bill that would retroactively limit foreign ownership of plantations to no more than 30 percent. (Photo: abror/presidensby.info)
Dozens of district security guards backed by military police surround protesting farmers from Kratie province in August 2014 at Phnom Penh’s Wat Botum park. The farmers were protesting against a land concession given to the South Korean agribusiness company Horizon Agriculture Devlopment. Two weeks later, Cambodia's Land Management Minister announced that the lands would be taken back from the company and awarded to local residents. (Photo: Siv Channa/The Cambodia Daily)
Abdul Oroh, the commissioner for agriculture and natural resources of Nigeria's Edo state, says his government has so far signed MOUs with about 16 investors to develop the agribusiness in the state. He says 500,000 hectares of farmlands have so far been identified across the state to be allocated to investors. (Photo: Nigeria Current)
Des manifestants qui protestent contre l'accaparement de leurs terres, le 2 septembre 2014, devant la Bourse du travail de Bamako. RFI/David Baché
South Africa's Minister for Economic Development and Tourism Mike Mabuyakhulu, PengXin International's general manager Kenneth Wang and BEK Holdings chief executive Elias Khumalo signing a memorandum of understanding on the sidelines of the 2013 BRICs meeting in Durban that involves a R2 billion project by BEK-Pengxin Agritech to produce food and high-end by-products from agricultural estates in each of South Africa’s provinces covering 1 million hectares of land.
La superficie totale des terres ouvertes aux investissements dans seulement cinq pays accueillant des méga PPP dépasse la taille de la France ou de l'Ukraine.
Tous les bœufs et autres bétails du delta du Fleuve Sénégal marcheront sur Ross Béthio en guise de vive protestation contre le projet Senhuile-Senéthanol.
Le Collectif pour la défense du Ndieal contre les Senhuile-Senéthanol sort de sa réserve pour demander encore une dernière fois au Président Macky SALL d'intervenir personnellement afin d’arrêter les dérives écologiques et le non respect du cahier de charge.
Steenord, an investment company based in the British Virgin Islands that is controlled by Russian sports retail tycoon Nikolay Fartushnyak (above), acquired 47 percent of Stockholm-listed Agrokultura, which owns farms in the Ukraine and Russia.
Bangalore based environmental and developmental journalist Keya Acharya attempted to dig into the cut-rose industry of India and tell the story of land grab in poor African countries like Kenya and Ethiopia linked to it. She filed her story to the well-known News Agency Inter Press Service (IPS) that appeared on IPS website on July 18, 2014. Over a fortnight since the report came online, Keya was served with a defamation notice by the legal counsels of Sai RamaKrishna Karuturi, Managing Director of Karuturi Global Ltd. demanding 20 million USD or 100 crore (One billion) rupees as compensation. Picture source: wcel.org
UNAC, the Mozambique Union of Farmers, a member of La Via Campesina regionalises its “NO To ProSavana” campaign at the Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) People’s Summit in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe.
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Mriya, the giant Frankfurt-listed wheat and corn grower in western Ukraine, is having its bottom line revamped, after admitting on Aug. 1 that it can’t make $32.6 million worth of interest payments on two eurobonds. The company's technical default is currently being addressed by Blackstone Group and Dragon Capital. (Photo: AFP)
