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Farm Land Grab in British Columbia: Robson Valley Residents Take on Absentee Farm Owners

Robson Valley Residents Take on Absentee Farm Owners
05 August 2014

After the riverside community of Dunster, B.C. learned a landholdings company owned by U.S. billionaires bought nearly 1,000 acres in the area, residents voiced concerns about rising real estate prices, abandoned farmland and declining populations throughout the Robson Valley. As the area's aging farmers sell off property to fund retirement, newcomers vying to live off the land find themselves competing with global investors.

Africa agricultural initiative gets $7 billion boost from private companies

Washington Post
05 August 2014

African and US firms announce an additional $7 bn in spending to promote ag development in Africa, even though “private interests do not always line up with foreign policy objectives,” such as when they purchase land, displacing villagers.

New World Bank rules will be disastrous for indigenous peoples

Food Navigator
05 August 2014

The World Bank has come under a barrage of criticism for granting loans up to US$50bn a year to developing countries will have disastrous consequences for indigenous peoples and the poor.

“Land grabs” and responsible agricultural investment in Africa

Triple Crisis
04 August 2014

Can land grabs by foreign investors in developing countries feed the hungry? So says the press release for a recent, and unfortunate, economic study.

Corporate influence through the G8 New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition in Africa

Global Policy Forum
04 August 2014

A new working paper published by Global Policy Forum, Brot für die Welt and MISEREOR, puts a spotlight on how business interests are promoted through the G8NA.

The ‘global’ land rush

IPS
04 August 2014

Anuradha Mittal, Executive Director of the Oakland Institute, argues that the time has come for a more holistic discussion of land deals that places transfer of land in both the developed and developing worlds along the same continuous spectrum.

Africa's richest man Aliko Dangote invests $1 Billion in rice production in Nigeria

Forbes
02 August 2014

Dangote Group has acquired 150,000 hectares of farmland in five Nigerian states -Edo, Jigawa, Kebbi, Kwara and Niger- which will be used for the commercial production of rice paddy.

Ghana offers land to Punjab farmers

SME Times
01 August 2014

Ghana has offered to settle progressive farmers from Punjab to give a push to the agricultural sector in the western African country, a Punjab government spokesman said Thursday.

Sugar wars: 35 years of bitter feuds in Central Malawi

Mail & Guardian
01 August 2014

Four hundred subsistence farmers say sugar giant Illovo illegally took over 600 ha of their land in 1979. And they still want it back.

Brazil and Japan: The Mozambican government invited us to participate in the ProSavana program

Via Campesina
30 July 2014

After concerns were raised about the negative effects ProSavana poses to the Mozambican peasants, the governments of Brazil and Japan defended their participation in the program.

Women prevented from fetching firewood and other forest products in the Nacala Corridor

Via Campesina
30 July 2014

Evidence of the effects of land grabbing on peasants in the region of Mozambique where the ProSavana project is being implemented is beginning to show, especially the impacts on women.

K Global Ventures selected by Government of Guinea to develop 100,000 hectares palm oil plantation

Business Wire
30 July 2014

Guinea's Minister of Trade, Marc Yombouno, says that if the Malaysian company completes the project within five years the Republic of Guinea will provide the company with an additional 100,000 ha.

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Farm Land Grab in British Columbia: Robson Valley Residents Take on Absentee Farm Owners

Africa agricultural initiative gets $7 billion boost from private companies

New World Bank rules will be disastrous for indigenous peoples

“Land grabs” and responsible agricultural investment in Africa

Corporate influence through the G8 New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition in Africa

The ‘global’ land rush

Africa's richest man Aliko Dangote invests $1 Billion in rice production in Nigeria

Ghana offers land to Punjab farmers

Sugar wars: 35 years of bitter feuds in Central Malawi

Brazil and Japan: The Mozambican government invited us to participate in the ProSavana program

Women prevented from fetching firewood and other forest products in the Nacala Corridor

K Global Ventures selected by Government of Guinea to develop 100,000 hectares palm oil plantation

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