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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.
In Defence of Land in Melanesia: AidWatch Speaking Tour
- AIDWATCH
- 07 November 2014
In the face of various threats to land, Melanesian are struggling to retain control over Melanesia land. Join us in hearing their stories and learn how you can support their struggle.
Swiss banks and institutional investors financing landgrabbing companies
- Bread for All
- 06 November 2014
Report assesses the financial relationships of 17 companies involved in land grabbing, human rights abuses or environmental pollution with 17 selected Swiss banks and institutional investors since January 2011.
Who owns Angola’s land? A problem that needs quick resolution
- Guardian
- 06 November 2014
Angola's rural population could be left behind as large areas are leased to foreign farming and mining companies, instead of providing for those who fled to the cities during the war but are now returning to the countryside.
Three reasons why the 'rai Principles' undermine the right to food, land and resources
- PANAP
- 06 November 2014
PAN Asia Pacific (PANAP) strongly believes that while the rai Principles claims to be rights-based and supposedly recognizes the right to food, its overarching framework and several of its principles actually contradict such claims.
The Philippines: stop the palm oil rush in Palawan
- Rainforest Action Network
- 05 November 2014
The proposal to convert 8 million hectares of land in the Palawan Man & Biosphere Reserve into oil palm plantations casts a harsh light on the Filipino government. Call on the Governor of Palawan to save the reserve.