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New ‘webs of power’ and agrarian transformations in Cambodia: Where are the women?
- PLAAS
- 01 June 2015
This study will analyse the shifts in land control unfolding in Cambodia, and their broader consequences.
Sudan - A food basket of the Arab world
- World Folio
- 01 June 2015
With massive areas of arable land and over 130 million heads of livestock, Sudan is receiving huge investments in its agriculture sector from Gulf states looking to address the food security problem
Interview with Carter Coleman, Founder and CEO of Kilombero Plantation Limited (KPL)
- AAM
- 01 June 2015
British Secretary of State Justine Greening visited Agrica's 5818 ha rice farm in Tanzania in June 2013 and then asked AgDevCo to invest.
Rural agents bet on farmland boom
- Farm Weekly
- 01 June 2015
Competition is growing between Australia's major rural land selling agents as major institutional and private investors seek to gain a foothold in the growth area of agriculture.
Myanmar works for formulating policy framework for foreign investment in agriculture
- Xinhua
- 31 May 2015
"There will be concerns about agriculture investment unless land ownership is opened to foreign investors,' says the OECD's Jan Rielander.
Transnational resistance against land grabbing in Mali
- Afrique-Europe-Interact
- 30 May 2015
Two villages, Sanamadougou and Sahou, in Mali, have been fighting for the past five years against eviction from their land by the large-scale investor Modibo Keita.
Failed harvest
- Business Standard
- 30 May 2015
Many Punjab farmers who went to Africa and Georgia in search of greener pastures are returning home
Mitr Phol growing in Laos
- Bangkok Post
- 29 May 2015
Mitr Phol Group, Asia's biggest sugar producer, has earmarked 3.5 billion baht to double production in Laos, fed by a plantation area in the southern province of Savannakhet.
An Indian dynasty betting on Romanian agriculture
- Black Sea Group
- 29 May 2015
Gupta family, one of the most powerful business dynasties in India alongside that of Lakshmi Mittal, bought two farms with a total of 2,500 hectares of land in Teleorman.
Deforestation, exploitation, hypocrisy: no end to Wilmar's palm oil land grabs
- The Ecologist
- 29 May 2015
While Wilmar spins green rhetoric, its bulldozers are still destroying vast swathes of forest and farmland.
African land is a profitable but potentially dangerous investment
- NGO Pulse
- 29 May 2015
Foreigners mostly seek agricultural land and land for tourism developments, but all foreigner-owned land in Africa holds the potential to prompt violence from displaced people.
Kuwaiti group to invest in sugar cane plantation in southern Mozambique
- Bernama
- 29 May 2015
Kuwait's Al-Badel International Development Company said it will launch a US$1.5 billion project to grow sugar cane in southern Mozambican province of Gaza within the next three months.