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Saudi firm moves toward 100% use of imported animal feeds
- Arab News
- 15 April 2014
Almarai has recently received the first shipment of feed estimated at 39 thousand tons coming from farms owned by the company in Argentina.
Global Witness: 'Environmentalist murders escalating worldwide'
- DW
- 15 April 2014
"The key drivers are the expansion of industrial logging trade, land grabs by agribusiness and mining projects."
Cola giants back Voluntary Guidelines on Land Tenure
- EIN
- 15 April 2014
Both the Coca-Cola Company and PepsiCo have vowed to increase their participation in the Committee on World Food Security.
Farmers hit land-use conversion in Nasugbu, Batangas, to avoid CARP
- Business Mirror
- 15 April 2014
Farmers express alarm over alleged massive land-use conversion, which targets productive agricultural lands supposed to be covered by the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program.
Senegal farmers, pastoralists complain of “land-grabbing”
- APA
- 14 April 2014
Over nine thousand farmers and pastoralist in St. Louis in the north of Senegal are facing possible evictions from their land as multi-national agro-industries scramble for agricultural land in the region.
Is the World Bank enabling agribusiness land grabs?
- Al Jazeera
- 12 April 2014
The policies of the World Bank are encouraging land grabs in the developing world, writes Anuradha Mittal.
Rules for foreign investment in farmland 'won't change' despite free trade talks with China
- ABC
- 12 April 2014
Trade Minister Andrew Robb has assured his Coalition colleagues there will be no changes to foreign investment rules on farmland as part of a trade deal with China.
Willful blindness at the World Bank
- Oakland Institute
- 10 April 2014
As the spring meetings of the World Bank get under way, 180 organizations demand that the World Bank end its Doing Business rankings and its support of the rampant theft of land and resources from some of the world’s poorest people.
Ogun launches 10 hectares cassava pilot farm
- Business Day
- 09 April 2014
The pilot farm, which will serve as a prelude to a bigger 4,000 hectares cassava farm by Flour Mills of Nigeria and other investors, is supported by the USAID.
Egypt eyes more Gulf investment on back of agricultural deal
- World News
- 09 April 2014
Egypt plans to lease 25,200 hectares of agricultural land this year to a firm affiliated with an Arab investment body, its agriculture minister said,
Al Dahra Intl Investment gets nod to acquire 51% of Serbia's Rudnap Agrar
- SeeNews
- 09 April 2014
Serbia's anti-trust regulator said it has cleared plans by UAE-based Al Dahra International Investment to take over from Serbia's Rudnap Group a 51% stake in Belgrade-based agriculture company Rudnap Agrar.
Cameroon: Upheaval in Nguti as impoverished communities urge banishment of Herakles Farms
- All Voices
- 08 April 2014
A demonstration the likes of which had never been seen before in that locality was witnessed in Babensi 2 village April 4 when more than 300 people staged a protest march against the American agro-industrial company.