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China's agricultural investment in Africa not "land grabbing"
- Xinhua
- 19 May 2014
China's investment in African agriculture has nothing to do with "land grabbing," says expert.
Nigeria: Dangote Group pays N1.2 billion as land compensation in Taraba
- Daily Independent
- 19 May 2014
The Taraba Government on Monday said that Dangote Group had paid N1.2 billion to it as compensation for land acquired in Lau Local Government Area of the state.
New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition in Africa raises concerns
- FIAN
- 16 May 2014
Ahead of the G7 Summit in Brussels, FIAN raises human rights concerns about the G8 New Alliance initiative.
How land ownership tussle, compensation hamper Taraba mega rice project
- This Day
- 15 May 2014
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.
One Earth Farms restructures
- Western Producer
- 15 May 2014
A company that once billed itself as the largest corporate grain farm in the country is no longer growing crops in Western Canada. 
PNG land grabs set to be reversed: researchers
- ABC
- 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.
Protecting water and land from grabbers. For a new water ethic
- Pressenza
- 15 May 2014
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.
Small community in Liberia stands strong against land grabbing
- Radio Mundo Real
- 14 May 2014
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.
Sexual abuse among claims against HAGL
- Phnom Penh Post
- 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.
Courts, cops, cronies driving farmers to ruin
- AHRC
- 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.
Rabo Farm interview with IP Nederland
- Rabobank
- 14 May 2014
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.
New billboard outside Papua New Guinea Parliament sends clear message: Revoke all unlawful SABLs
- ActNow
- 13 May 2014
A new billboard with a clear message for the Papau New Guinea Prime Minister has been erected in central Waigani.