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Langrabbing breeds hunger, resistance
- Bulatlat
- 26 May 2017
New book “Land Grabbing Cases in the Philippines: Greed, Hunger, and Resistance” by the Philippine Network of Food Security Programmes (PNFSP) discusses several local case studies.
Gendered impacts of large-scale land acquisitions in Western Ethiopia
- RRI
- 26 May 2017
Study of cases of large-scale land deals in Ethiopia finds range of negative impacts on local families and women in particular, including reduced access to land for farming and grazing, outmigration, and reduced availability of forest products.
Farmland Partners may buy land in Canada, but rules out Scottish deal
- Agrimoney
- 26 May 2017
Farmland Partners is investigating a land purchase in Canada, and looked at farms in Scotland too, in its quest to exploit global farm price growth it sees continuing, driven by the quest to meet food demand.
Villagers occupy land in stand-off
- Khmer Times
- 25 May 2017
More than 200 villagers in Svay Rieng province, Cambodia confronted by the police as they tried to occupy land at the centre of a long-running dispute. NK Venture special was granted permission to build a sugar plantation on the 670 hectares in 2010, but it has still done nothing with the land.
The pros and cons of commercial farming models in Africa
- The Conversation
- 24 May 2017
Colonialism brought large-scale farming to Africa. Now, after several decades of independence, and with investor interest growing, African governments are once again promoting large plantations and estates. But the new corporate interest in African agriculture has been criticised as a “land grab”.
China’s plan to `colonise` Pak is now out!
- Scoop News
- 24 May 2017
The secrecy behind much-touted China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) now lies in tatters with details of how China is plotting the economic takeover of Pakistan published early this week. Major thrust areas of this plan will hugely affect Pakistani agriculture sector.
Sugar rush puts monster mill well ahead of target
- Phnom Penh Post
- 23 May 2017
Cambodia's biggest sugar mill owned by Rui Feng International Co Ltd. has produced half a million tonnes of refined white sugar despite facing accusations of land-grabbing and using its partner firms to circumvent restrictions on the maximum legal size of land a company can hold as an ELC.
AfDB meet: Following Chinese, western "land grab" in Africa, Indian corporates seek economic space in continent
- Counterview
- 23 May 2017
Experts say India is hosting this year's annual meeting of the African Development Bank to provide a platform for Indian corporates to invest in Africa, especially in agriculture and mining
China spins a global food web from Mozambique to Missouri
- Bloomberg
- 23 May 2017
As China's government sets up farms in developing countries, the nation's food companies are scouring the world for premium products
Danes give Chileans a helping hand in global pork marketplace
- NPA
- 23 May 2017
The Danish Agribusiness Fund and JB Equity will allow Coexca SA to double its current pork production capacity and establish a new and modern pig farm in the Maule Region of Chile
Land and the right to food in Zambia: U.N. envoy urges shifts away from large-scale projects
- Food Tank
- 19 May 2017
Leave it to the U.N. Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food, Hilal Elver, to remind the Zambian government—and all of us—that in agricultural countries such as Zambia the right to food depends on the access of the rural poor to land.
Wilmar appeals RSPO ruling that it grabbed indigenous lands in Sumatra
- Mongabay
- 18 May 2017
The Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil is reviewing its finding about the palm oil company’s activities in the Kapa people’s customary territory.