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Romania farmland costing fraction of UK lures investors
- Bloomberg
- 24 October 2014
"Land consolidation is the only way,” Peter Beerents, chief executive officer of Dutch farmland investment firm Cibus Land Management Srl.
EBRD provides loan to major agribusiness in Ukraine
- World Grain
- 24 October 2014
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development is taking part in a $230 million syndicated loan facility for Warsaw-listed Kernel Group, one of the largest farming companies in the Ukraine.
French firm in row over land
- APA
- 24 October 2014
French agricultural firm, Socofin, which has a huge investment in Sierra Leone, has denied involvement in a recent controversial trip by a leading member of a pressure group challenging its activities in the country.
Fiagril negotiates sale of minority stake to Chinatex
- Valor Econômico
- 24 October 2014
Fiagril, a Mato Grosso company operating in the trading and processing of grains, is negotiating the sale of a minority stake to Chinese agribusiness company Chinatex for R$400 million to R$500 million
Mozambique: More than 1,000 people displaced from their lands in Lioma
- @Verdade
- 24 October 2014
More than a thousand sustenance farmers were removed from their lands by the Brazilian company AGROMOZ, to make way for soybean production in an area of some 3,000 hectares.
Land & resource grabs in the United States: Five sites of struggle and potential transformation
- Food First
- 24 October 2014
Briefing identifies five strategic “nexuses” to help understand how land converges with historically embedded power relations in the United States.
CSOs walk out of World Bank "consultation" on Safeguards policy
- Safeguardcomments
- 24 October 2014
Civil society groups walk out of World Bank "consultation" on their Safeguards policy. The Safeguards are supposed to set best practice for the World Bank and protect people's rights, but the new draft allows the bank and companies to go ahead with projects that affect land rights without consent of affected communities.
In the midst of the ebola epidemic in Sierra Leone, SOCFIN poised the capture Malen Chiefdom
- Standard Times
- 23 October 2014
As the ebola epidemic rages on, Socfin continues to grab land from the people of Malen in league with some chiefdom authorities.
Tribes and farmers unite to end oil palm expansion in Philippines
- Survival International
- 22 October 2014
Tribal people and small-scale farmers in the Philippine province of Palawan have called for a halt to the expansion of oil palm plantations which are destroying the forests they rely on to survive.
Land grabbing: exploring challenges and implications for water, energy and food security
- ClimateScience&Policy
- 22 October 2014
Conversation with Maria Antonelli about the main drivers and implications of land transactions around the world, with a particular focus both on the role of EU.
Hanisha Solomon’s rousing tribute to the fight against land grabs in Africa
- Finfinne Tribune
- 22 October 2014
Video clip from the Stop Africa Land Grab Concert in Washington DC (September 2014)
Peru seeks investment from India to resurrect its infra sector
- Financial Express
- 21 October 2014
Peru is offering Indian businesses investment opportunities in agri-business, where 100,000 hectares of arable land will double in a few years due to large irrigation projects that have been tendered.