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ADFD extends AED183.6 million loan to Montenegro to support agriculture
- Zawya
- 05 June 2015
Phase two of the agreement involves the procurement of services relevant to machinery, factories, warehouses, and agricultural land.
French firm urged to reimburse farmers in alleged land grabs
- AP
- 04 June 2015
Activists called Thursday for French conglomerate Bollore to return land, or compensate farmers, over disputed concessions for plantations in Cambodia and three African countries.
Herakles abandons all operations in Mundemba and Toko concession areas, Cameroon
- SEFE
- 04 June 2015
It is SEFE’s assessment that the Herakles project was simply a poorly conceived project, badly managed, in the wrong place.
Foreign capital buying up land to Increase control over global food chain
- SACSIS
- 04 June 2015
The hard reality is that there is a sound business case to be made for commercial interests to aggressively attempt to control the very foundation of the food chain, the land itself.
They occupy Bolloré’s lawn to highlight Bolloré’s role in land grabs over the world
- ReAct and Conf
- 04 June 2015
On Thursday the 4th of June, people from Cameroon, the Ivory Coast and activists from the Conféderation Paysanne, will disrupt the AGM of the Bolloré group in Puteaux, outside Paris.
Call of civil society organizations to their governments on the New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition in Africa
- 03 June 2015
The policies promoted by the New Alliance facilitate the grabbing of land and other natural resources, further marginalize small-scale producers, and undermine the right to adequate food and nutrition
New Alliance, new risk of land grabs
- ActionAid
- 03 June 2015
This briefing – covering Nigeria, Malawi, Tanzania and Senegal – shows that some large companies involved in the New Alliance are already accused of taking part in land grabs in some countries
New $15 million lending facility to finance african agricultural enterprises
- KfW
- 03 June 2015
KfW, the German Development Bank on behalf of the German Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development, along with AgDevCo and Root Capital, announces the launch of the Lending for African Farming Company (LAFCo)
Agro colonialismo en el Congo
- RIAO-RDC
- 02 June 2015
Varias prominentes agencias e instituciones de financiamiento para el desarrollo están brindando su apoyo a la compañía de agronegocios canadiense Feronia, acusada de acaparamiento de tierras y abusos de derechos humanos.
Agro-colonialism in the Congo
- RIAO-RDC | GRAIN
- 02 June 2015
Several prominent development finance institutions are funding Feronia, a Canadian agribusiness company accused of land grabbing and human rights abuses in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).
Palm oil regulator asked to investigate illegal land grabs by Wilmar Group supplier in Borneo
- FPP
- 01 June 2015
Borneo human rights organization files complaint alleging multiple breaches of RSPO standards by palm oil supplier PT. Swadaya Mukti Prakarsa (SMP) / First Resources.
The lesser known story of India’s role in Ethiopian land deals
- The Conversation
- 01 June 2015
India can ill-afford to be tainted by accusations of complicity in land deals that disadvantage the people of Africa given the role it sees for itself in promoting co-operation among countries in the south.