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Invest in agriculture, US business mission urged
- Daily News
- 10 November 2014
Tanzania's Minister of State, Dr Mary Nagu, has urged US companies to invest in agriculture since Tanzania is blessed with over 43 million hectares of arable land.
Stop investing in Colombian blood: land activists appeal to the UK
- Guardian
- 10 November 2014
Colombians are being kept off their farms by armed groups and illegal businesses. Those fighting for land restitution have a blunt message for British firms and politicians
Unifrutti signs deal for Maguindanao banana farms
- Business World
- 10 November 2014
Chiquita-Unifrutti will invest US$60 million in a 2,000 ha banana plantation in an area previously occupied by the Moro Islamic Liberation Front.
Engineering ethnic conflict: The toll of Ethiopia's plantation development on the Suri people
- Oakland Institue
- 10 November 2014
The report uncovers the truth behind a reported massacre of 30 to 50 Suri people in May 2012 near a 30,000-hectare Malaysian-owned Koka plantation.
Kagame woos Indian investment
- East African
- 09 November 2014
Rwanda is pushing for massive irrigation projects to boost agricultural production, where an investment of $200 million is needed for 35,800 hectares of farmland.
Telling family farming fairy tales
- Reuters
- 07 November 2014
A recent comprehensive survey by GRAIN, examining data from around the world, finds that while small farmers feed the world, they are doing so with just 24 percent of the world's farmland.
NGOs say ethnic areas have no ‘virgin lands’
- DVB
- 07 November 2014
The Ethnic Community Development Forum (ECDF) released a statement on Thursday which slammed Burma’s draft National Land Use Policy for failing to protect small-scale farmers and ethnic minorities.
Sell out African food & farming system
- AEFJN
- 07 November 2014
The current flow of agricultural investment is focused just on export-based industrial agriculture, while smallholders and family agriculture remain deprived of investment.
Australia the largest single beneficiary from PNG rainforest destruction
- Act Now!
- 07 November 2014
Australia is the largest single beneficiary of rampant and unsustainable logging and land grabbing in Papua New Guinea, according to leading community activist group, ACT NOW!
NGOs fear draft land use policy fails to deal with land grabs, farmers’ rights
- Mizzima
- 07 November 2014
Groups say draft law prioritizes and gives special privileges to business investors, which could spark more land grabs and create more land problems within the country.
Tanzania: Prisons, Turkish firm in farming partnership
- Daily News
- 07 November 2014
A Turkish agriculture firm, Tarbim, will invest billions of shillings to establish a modern rice farm at Tanzania Prisons Bagamoyo farm.
Yangon statement on human rights and agribusiness in Southeast Asia released
- FPP
- 07 November 2014
Policies to generate foreign investment and commodity exports are imposing heavy costs on communities, such as land grabs, loss of livelihoods, lack of food security, and degradation of the environment and biodiversity.