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Criminalisation of MALOA activists and land conflict in Malen
- GCSLW
- 04 Mar 2016
The Global convergence of struggles for land and water calls on President Koroma to end the criminalisation of MALOA activists resisting Socfin in Sierra Leone.
The Great Land Rush: China’s Pengxin hits overseas hurdles
- Financial Time
- 03 Mar 2016
Pengxin, a little-known Shanghai real estate developer that owns Theland milk powder, will become the world’s largest private landowner if Australia’s authorities clear its most ambitious bid yet.
Frieslandcampina seeks to buy 51% of Pakistan's Engro Foods
- Bloomberg
- 03 Mar 2016
Royal FrieslandCampina NV, a Dutch dairy company, is seeking to buy a 51 percent stake in Engro Foods Ltd. of Pakistan, the country's second-biggest listed dairy firm and owner of one of the country's largest dairy farms.
Mozambique's movement to end land grabs: interview with Anabela Lemos
- Truth-out
- 02 Mar 2016
This article was drawn from an interview with Anabela Lemos, conducted by Simone Adler. Anabela Lemos is cofounder, campaign coordinator and board member of Justiça Ambiental, the Mozambique branch of Friends of the Earth.
Common ground: Securing land rights and safeguarding the earth
- RRI
- 01 Mar 2016
Up to 2.5 billion people depend on indigenous and community lands, which make up over 50 percent of the land on the planet; they legally own just one-fifth. The remaining land remains vulnerable to land grabs from governments and corporations.
‘No land revolution’ coming: official
- Phnom Penh Post
- 01 Mar 2016
While vast tracts of Cambodia remain concentrated in the hands of a few and accusations of land grabbing remain rife, the broader distribution of land is more than equitable, the government says.
The great land rush
- Financial Times
- 01 Mar 2016
FT correspondents report on the global race for land from Ethiopia, Myanmar and Indonesia.
"Socfin has never been guilty of land grabbing"
- VILT
- 01 Mar 2016
So says the chairman of Socfin’s board of directors, Luc Boedt, in response to the occupation of the company’s headquarters by several Belgian NGOs.
Australia deputy PM urges local investment in agriculture to meet strong Asia demand
- Reuters
- 01 Mar 2016
Australia's deputy prime minister on Tuesday urged the country's A$1.8 trillion (US$1.3 trillion) pension fund industry to boost its investment in agriculture as the sector gears up to meet strong demand from Asia.
Gambella evicts local investors from leased lands
- Fortune
- 29 February 2016
Nearly 100 commercial farming investors in Gambella are losing thousands of hectares of land because the region leased, by mistake, lands under federal jurisdiction.
Ukrainian prime minister suggests selling one mln ha of state lands at open auction
- Interfax
- 29 February 2016
Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatseniuk considers it necessary to sell 1 million hectares of lands in state ownership at an open auction as part of the land reform.
Conflict, companies stoke land grabs in Myanmar’s Kachin State
- Khmer Times
- 29 February 2016
Villagers say they were not consulted about plans to turn their land into grazing grounds and believe it was a ploy by officials who planned to profit from renting out 300 acres to a Chinese company for a banana plantation.