Ahead of the G7 Summit in Brussels, FIAN raises human rights concerns about the G8 New Alliance initiative.
The Nigerian government and Taraba State signed an MOU for 30,000 hectares with Calvin Burgess, a US investor and owner of Dominion Farms Ltd, for large scale rice production in Taraba State.
A company that once billed itself as the largest corporate grain farm in the country is no longer growing crops in Western Canada.
- Western Producer
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15 May 2014
There are signs that land grabs in Papua New Guinea may start to decline, after a report from Oxfam exposed the extent of the involvement of Australia's big four banks.
Untold millions of small farmers and indigenous people have been thrown off their land to make way for land grabs. With them gone and their land and water used to grow crops for export, local communities are going hungry and without water.
Interview with Silas Siakor about how the determined people of the Jogbahn Clan, together with the pressure of national and international organisations, are trying to stop a UK palm oil company from grabbing their lands.
- Radio Mundo Real
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14 May 2014
Sexual assault and the annihilation of sacred graveyards are among the many claims levelled at Vietnamese Rubber giant HAGL by villagers in Cambodia's Ratanakkiri province.
- Phnom Penh Post
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14 May 2014
Asian Human Rights Commission says the frenzy of land grabbing in Burma amid the country's transition to nominally democratic government shows no signs of abating.
This year Rabo Farm's first fund, with a size of € 315 million, will be fully subscribed, and a new fund, the Rabo Farm Europe Fund II, will be launched.
A new billboard with a clear message for the Papau New Guinea Prime Minister has been erected in central Waigani.
Mozambican organizations and movements say an agribusiness project threatens biodiversity, the lives of millions of peasants and the food sovereignty of the country.
- Radio Mundo Real
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12 May 2014
Land grabs in Africa could herald a new dystopian age of hunger
- African Renaissance
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12 May 2014