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    • Why Saudi Arabia bought 14,000 acres of US farm land
      • CS Monitor
      • 28 Mar 2016

      The Middle Eastern kingdom needs hay for its 170,000 cows. So, it's buying up farmland for the water-chugging crop in the drought-stricken American Southwest.

    • Chinese engagement in African agriculture is not what it seems
      • The Conversation
      • 28 Mar 2016

      The Chinese role in agriculture – in terms of business investment, technology transfer, demonstration efforts, training and more – is growing, and shaping perceptions.

    • Q&A on impact of economic land concessions in Southeast Asia
      • New York Times
      • 26 Mar 2016

      Authorities in Cambodia, Laos and Myanmar have granted hundreds of long-term land leases called economic land concessions to foreign and domestic developers to set up rubber, sugar or other plantations or mining projects. A closer look at the issue

    • Cambodia's zeal for rubber drives ethnic group from land
      • Associated Press
      • 25 Mar 2016

      The Bunong say they never were warned their land would be taken and were not offered compensation before the land started to be cleared — two steps required under Cambodian law.

    • Ethiopia body suspends farm lease programme after poor results
      • Reuters
      • 25 Mar 2016

      An Ethiopian state body that has been involved in leasing tracts of land for commercial farming has suspended the issuance of new licences until it completes a review because of scant progress in developing areas leased so far, an official said.

    • Saudi prince, Kenya partners locked in battle for agro-firm
      • Business Daily
      • 23 Mar 2016

      Prince Sultan Bin Nasser Bin Abdul Aziz Al Saud has sued three Kenyans he accuses of forging his signature and transferring ownership of a multi-billion shilling company that has leased 100,000 acres at Galana, Kilifi County, to cultivate sugarcane.

    • Dubai dairy Al Rawabi to expand with $100 million farm in Liwa region
      • National
      • 23 Mar 2016

      As part of its expansion plans, Dubai-based dairy Al Raw­abi expects to buy land in Africa before the end of next year to grow alfalfa, which is used as a forage crop.

    • FirstFarms unveils plan to exploit Slovakian land sale spree
      • Agrimoney
      • 23 Mar 2016

      FirstFarms unveiled plans to double its Eastern European farming area, potentially tapping into moves which could bring an "oversupply" of land for sale in Slovakia.

    • PANAP gears up for Day of the Landless, joins global outcry for justice for Lat Am land activists
      • PANAP
      • 23 Mar 2016

      As various peasant and indigenous people’s groups gear up for the “Day of the Landless” on 29 March, regional advocacy group PAN Asia Pacific (PANAP) today joins the global outcry for justice for slain land activists and indigenous people’s leaders in Honduras and Colombia whose deaths are apparently linked to their strong opposition to large-scale corporate mining and logging.

    • Agency quits offering land for large scale agricultural investments
      • Walta Info
      • 23 Mar 2016

      The Ethiopian Agriculture Investment and Land Administration Agency has given up offering land for large scale agricultural investments for an unspecified time.

    • Antwort von Afrique-Europe-Interact an das Ministerium für wirtschaftliche Zusammenarbeit und Entwicklung (Deutschland)
      • Afrique-Europe-Interact
      • 21 Mar 2016

      Mitte Dezember hat das Ministerium für wirtschaftliche Zusammenarbeit und Entwicklung (BMZ) an alle Personen, die unseren im September veröffentlichten Protestbrief an das BMZ geschickt hatten eine ausführliche Antwort zurückgeschrieben. Das klingt gut, allerdings enthält die Antwort an zentraler Stelle Falschinformationen, was das Ministerium wiederum zu völlig falschen Schlussfolgerungen kommen lässt. Vor diesem Hintergrund haben wir uns Anfang Februar erneut mit einem Brief an das BMZ gewandt, der (in leichter veränderter Form) auch an die Afrikanische Entwicklungsbank, an den malischen Präsidenten und an westliche Botschaften in Bamako gegagen ist. Die in dem Brief erwähnten Dokumente finden sich weiter unten als PDF-Dokumente (so wie der Brief an das BMZ auch als PDF-Dokument runtergeladen werden kann)

    • Open letter to the German Ministry of development (concerning Sanamadougou et Sahou)
      • Afrique-Europe-Interact
      • 21 Mar 2016

      The German government supports companies like M3-SA, which are responsible for large scale land grabbing, by providing loans – in this case through the African Development Bank and the DEG (Deutsche Entwicklungsgesellschaft).

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