Unless proactive steps are taken to enable women to have a stronger voice, large-scale agribusiness projects will leave them even more marginalised.
The government of India is looking at the possibility of leasing land in Mozambique to grow pulses.
- Times of India
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17 June 2016
Civil Society Organisations in Sierra Leone wish to let the public understand that a solution to the persistent conflict in Malen Chiefdom is needed.
Civil society organizations demand to stop land grabbing by the agro-industrial company Socfin and to protect the human rights of the communities.
- FIAN Belgium
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16 June 2016
While there is near consensus that foreigners should not have the right to own farmland in Kazakhstan, opinions are deeply divided on the issue of granting leases to foreigners.
- The Diplomat
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15 June 2016
"The results are a strong message that the people don't want corporate farming in North Dakota."
- CommonDreams
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15 June 2016
Wall Street remains enamored with US and international farmland, speakers at a Farm Foundation meeting in Louisville said last week.
- Progressive Farmer
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14 June 2016
Industrial agriculture and financial sectors are hand-in-hand worsening climate change and then profiting from it, with an unprecedented number of land grabs over the last eight years.
Global investors have spent more than $90 billion buying agricultural lands the size of Finland in deals criticized by rights groups for displacing small farmers, according to research published on Tuesday.
Capital is appropriating our territories. Hence, we must respond by turning the struggle for land into a struggle for territory.
- Nyéléni newsletter
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14 June 2016
While 'food security-driven land grabbing' has subsided in recent years, 'plain old profit-driven agribusiness expansion is now the dominant agenda'.
- Common Dreams
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14 June 2016
Eight years after releasing its first report on land grabbing, GRAIN publishes a new dataset documenting nearly 500 cases of land grabbing around the world.