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European Union agrees to investigate Cambodian sugar industry
- Guardian
- 10 December 2014
Booming industry faces allegations of human rights abuses such as land grabs, forced displacement and child labour.
Foreign companies buying Africa's fertile land
- World Bulletin
- 10 December 2014
According to the Association of Researchers in Middle East and Africa(ORDAF), political events and terror news are deliberately kept in the headlines to hide African land grabs by Western countries.
Human Rights Day: “No land, No life”, Land grabbing is a human rights violation
- PANAP
- 10 December 2014
Groups from Asia and Africa issue statement to mark International Human Rights Day.
Colonizing - and selling - the Ord: an Australian tale with a message
- PLECserv
- 10 December 2014
So much for the Ord as a ‘food bowl’. So much too for a new partnership with indigenous people. As in transactions with land-grabbers in poorer lands, the valued partnership now is with big money.
EU to probe sugar disputes
- Phnom Penh Post
- 09 December 2014
Cambodia has taken a “crucial step towards justice” by launching a reparations program for thousands of villagers who were forcibly evicted to make way for industrial sugar plantations.
Cargill may invest $1b in Indonesia over 3 to 4 years with poultry focus
- Reuters
- 09 December 2014
Cargill met with Indonesian President Joko Widodo and other senior government officials on Monday to discuss future investment in Indonesia's oil palm sector.
Sudan allocates 100,000 acres to Egyptian farmers
- Radio Dabanga
- 09 December 2014
The Sudanese Minister of Investment, Dr Mustafa Osman Ismail, told reporters in Khartoum on Sunday that farmlands have been reserved for interested Egyptian farmers at a rate of 10 acres (4 ha) each.
The draft land use policy: putting big business first
- Mizzima
- 09 December 2014
The draft National Land Use Policy has created widespread discontent in Myanmar. It is only positive for those who may seek to acquire land for business purposes and have security in their investments.
‘There is no voice of real farmers’
- Mizzima
- 09 December 2014
"We are in the middle of a land-grabbing storm.” Draft land use policy dismays farmers and ethnic minority groups
Palm oil and extreme violence in Honduras: The inexorable rise and dubious reform of Grupo Dinant
- TruthOut
- 08 December 2014
A lucrative agro-industrial crop like palm oil, in a context of entrenched corruption and an authoritarian regime, lends itself to land grabbing and agrarian violence.
Hawke lobbied for China in Ord
- West Australian
- 08 December 2014
Former Australian prime minister Bob Hawke lobbied Colin Barnett to allow a Chinese company to buy a large package of land in the Ord River.
Pakistan invites energy, farm investments
- Gulf Times
- 08 December 2014
Pakistan, which is currently in negotiations with Qatar for liquefied natural gas supplies, has opened its farm sector to investments from Qatar, which has placed utmost priority on food security.