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Evicted & abandoned: How the World Bank broke its promise to protect the poor
- ICIJ
- 16 April 2015
ICIJ and The Huffington Post estimate that 3.4 million people have been physically or economically displaced by World Bank-backed projects since 2004.
#NoLandNoLife regional confab on land reform
- PAN AP
- 16 April 2015
The Asian Peasant Coalition (APC), in cooperation with PAN Asia Pacific (PANAP) and other organizations, will hold a two-day conference on land reform from 18-19 April in Jakarta, Indonesia.
Foreign investment fears misplaced, forum told
- The Australian
- 15 April 2015
Australia's National Farmers’ Federation has criticised the Abbott government’s reduced threshold for foreign farm purchases.
Canada pension fund manager cries foul over Saskatchewan farm review
- Reuters
- 14 April 2015
The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board says it is concerned about the Saskatchewan government's decision to temporarily ban certain institutional investors from buying farmland in the province.
Canada: Foreign firms grabbing prime B.C. farmland for carbon credits
- Globe & Mail
- 14 April 2015
Lana Popham, agriculture critic for the NDP, said she is working on a private member’s bill to that will limit the amount of farmland foreigners can own in the Province of Britsh Columbia.
Ethiopians talk of violent intimidation as their land is earmarked for foreign investors
- Guardian
- 14 April 2015
New report gives damning indictment of the government’s mandatory resettlement policy carried out in a political climate of torture, oppression and silencing.
PNG: Compulsory purchase used to seize land and replace flawed SABL lease
- PNGexposed
- 13 April 2015
Companies with SABL leases are nervous that their unlawfully acquired rights could be extinguished and are looking for ways to protect their positions. Once again, it could be the Department of Lands that comes to their assistance.
Australia's largest private land owner to sell cattle business
- Reuters
- 10 April 2015
The announcement of the sale - which is expected to attract significant foreign interest - comes a month after the government said it would clamp down on foreign ownership of agricultural land.
Agro-industrial investments in Cameroon: Large-scale land acquisitions since 2005
- IIED
- 10 April 2015
A new study examines large-scale land acquisitions by the agro-industrial sector in Cameroon since 2005.
New Mexico SIC looks at hiring 2 firms to take in $375 million
- P&I
- 10 April 2015
New Mxico's SIC makes its second investment into an agriculture-related fund this year by investing $75 million in Brookfield Brazil AgriLand Fund II, after it approved a $200m commitment to a TIAA-CREF fund in February.
Donors share operational guides to implement the VGGT
- Donor Platform
- 10 April 2015
The Global Donor Working Group on Land provided an overview of ongoing work to develop operational guidance for the private sector to implement the Voluntary Guidelines for the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land.
Top Rubada officials in Sh2.6bn scandal
- The Citizen
- 09 April 2015
The Tanzanian government sacked senior officials of the Rufiji Basin Development Authority (Rubada) over the disappearance of more than Sh2.3 billion funds, some of which were for the acquistion of lands.