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Victory for sugar workers at Swaziland's Tambankulu Estates but Illovo refuses to settle!
- IUF
- 03 July 2014
Swaziland's sugar workers score major success but struggle continues at Illovo, the largest sugar company in Africa.
World Bank and UN REDD programme behind genocidal land grabs
- Guardian
- 03 July 2014
Plight of Kenya's indigenous Sengwer shows carbon offsets are empowering corporate recolonisation of the South
Grown men working 12 hours a day for a loaf of bread
- Arc 2020
- 02 July 2014
Businesses and wealthy oligarchs have taken ownership over huge tracts of agricultural land, and pushed into poverty a large number of smallholders.
S'Africans to invest $200m in Edo, Enugu, Benue States
- This Day
- 02 July 2014
A group of South African investors have indicated interest to plough $200 million in the agriculture sector and acquire an initial 5,000 ha in Nigeria's Edo, Enugu and Benue states.
Conflicts over land in Asia
- CSR Asia
- 02 July 2014
CSR Asia has published a new report that examines the rise of “land grabs” in Asia and how this impacts on poor and vulnerable people in the region.
Titanic land purchases in New Zealand
- OPP
- 01 July 2014
James Cameron, Canadian-born director of Titanic and Avatar, has bought up two more properties, bringing his total purchases of farms in the area to at least 12.
Concerns as PNG prepares to return land to traditional owners
- ABC
- 01 July 2014
Community groups have welcomed the Papua New Guinea Government's announcement it will abolish special agricultural business leases.
Picking up the pieces from a failed land grab project in Tanzania
- Global Post
- 01 July 2014
As negotiations over responsible agricultural investment policy run through the summer, Tanzanian villagers fight for the return of 20,000 acres of land lost to a failed biofuel project.
The full NEC decision on the SABL land grab
- Act Now!
- 28 June 2014
Text of the decision by the Papua New Guinea Government to repeal the provisions of the Structural Agriculture Business Lease (SABL) in the Lands Act to prevent anymore SABL dealings.
Ethical land-grabbing could feed 100 million people
- New Scientist
- 27 June 2014
Land grabs by foreign companies in poor parts of Africa and Asia could feed an extra 100 million people if the land is used to grow crops, say researchers.
The next breadbasket
- National Geographic
- 27 June 2014
Can Africa's fertile farmland feed the world?
Private investment urged to ensure food security
- The Peninsula
- 27 June 2014
The GCC businessmen's body has called on the region's private sector to come together and jointly invest in agriculture, fishing and livestock breeding locally as well as overseas