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Liberia passes landmark law to secure ancestral land rights
- Reuters
- 21 September 2018
Liberia has passed a landmark law that will help communities fight foreign land grabs by giving them ownership of ancestral territory,
Preparation of an international guidance document on agricultural land investment contracts
- Unidroit
- 21 September 2018
A UNIDROIT Working Group is currently developing, in collaboration with FAO and IFAD, an instrument on agricultural land investment contracts.
JICA signs $50-million loan agreement with Amaggi Exportação e Importação Ltda for the Agriculture Supply Chain Enhancement Project in Brazil
- JICA
- 20 September 2018
The Japan International Cooperation Agency says the project will advance sustainable agricultural development in the northeastern region of Mato Grosso State and bring benefits to Japanese and global food security
Chinese investors shift agriculture practices in North
- The Nation
- 17 September 2018
Widespread contract farming for Cavendish bananas to export to China began in the North of Thailand two years ago, along with a large-scale plantation owned by a Thai-Chinese joint venture.
Move to acquire lands in Sudan for farming
- Daily New Nation
- 17 September 2018
The Government of Bangladesh has decided to acquire land in Sudan in a bid to explore commercial farming opportunities in the Northeast African country.
Kebbi farmers allege takeover of farmlands
- Daily Trust
- 17 September 2018
The All Farmers Association of Nigeria decries the takeover of 14,000 ha of farmlands by the Kebbi State government to give to a company for cassava planting
Foreign farm tax to drive agri REITs: Pitcher Partners
- AFR
- 17 September 2018
Under a proposal from Australia's federal government the 15 per cent concessional rate of withholding tax for foreign investors in agricultural land will be lifted to 30 per cent by July 1 next year.
Hassad merges its agricultural portfolio with Australian firm
- Gulf Times
- 17 September 2018
Qatar's Hassad Foods continues the strategic repositioning of its Australian agricultural investments, securing an agreement to transfer its agricultural portfolio to Macquarie Infrastructure and Real Assets.
Harvard farmland acquisitions criticized as unethical
- Chief Investment Officer
- 14 September 2018
A new report accuses Harvard University’s endowment of contributing to “environmental destruction,” and the displacement and harassment of communities in its pursuit to acquire $1 billion worth of farmland worldwide over the past decade.
'I ran away but she sat there... Then they smiled and shot her'
- The Journal
- 14 September 2018
Front Line Defenders identifies the root causes of violence in Brazil, Colombia, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico and the Philippines, where more than 80% of the human rights defenders killed globally over the last four years were murdered.
Harvard purchases 741,000 acres and creates conflict with local communities
- Brasil de Fato
- 13 September 2018
The US university, through its endowment fund, maintains a business chain with Brazilian companies and its subsidiaries to circumvent Brazilian law, according to a report.
The village women taking on the palm oil giant
- Fern
- 12 September 2018
Award-winning Cameroonian journalist Madeleine Ngeunga and Fern’s Indra Van Gisbergen recently visited villages in the shadow of Socapalm’s oil palm plantations to see if the issues driving the dispute between locals and the company are being resolved.