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Green Rush: How big agriculture is carving up Africa for industrial farmland.
- Foreign Policy
- 18 December 2013
African countries are also welcoming big agricultural projects bankrolled by foreign investors whose goal is to send food abroad.
Farmers struggle to survive in Eastern Germany
- Deutsche Welle
- 17 December 2013
Young farmers in eastern Germany are scrambling to find land as they compete with large multinationals.
Women in Sierra Leone: Resisting dispossession
- Open Democracy
- 16 December 2013
Women in Sierra Leone are losing their land and livelihoods in the face of land grabs, discriminatory traditions and customs, and the lack of a strong legal framework, reports Mariama Tarawallie of the Sierra Leone Network on the Right to Food (SiLNoRF)
Trans-Latin business and land grabbing in Latin America
- ALAI
- 16 December 2013
Land grabbing has taken on a distinct characteristic in Latin America, as Cristobal Kay, a specialist in development and agrarian reform, explains.
SEFE calls President of Cameroon's land deal with US company Herakles Farms a grave injustice and hindrance to conventional values
- SEFE
- 16 December 2013
Three Presidential decrees attributing lands to Herakles Farms in the South West region of Cameroon are reminiscent of colonialism and slavery.
Indonesian palm oil company demolishes homes and evicts villagers in week-long raid
- Mongabay
- 14 December 2013
Nearly 150 homes destroyed in the latest incident in conflict between indigenous Batin Sembilan residents and former Wilmar company.
Land laws block private equity flow into region’s agribusiness
- East African
- 13 December 2013
Differing land ownership laws in East Africa are hurting the growth of agribusiness as the sector is unable to attract needed private equity funds.
Canada's CPPIB to buy farmland portfolio in Saskatchewan
- Reuters
- 12 December 2013
Last year, CPPIB launched its agriculture investment program which is initially focusing on farmland opportunities in Canada, the United States, Australia, New Zealand and Brazil.
Latvian farmers advised to exercise caution in signing land lease contracts with foreigners
- Baltic Course
- 12 December 2013
Several farmers in Latvia report incidents with foreign entities that offer farmers highly complex land rental agreements where, should farmers fail to meet certain contractual provisions, they can lose the land.
Land as a matter of human rights
- The Broker
- 12 December 2013
Land grabbing is an expression of the dominant development model based on production and consumption patterns in which financial capital reigns.
Former Blackstone unit exec Bruce Wrobel dies
- CNBC
- 12 December 2013
Wrobel was CEO of Herakles Farms, which had sought to build palm oil farms in Cameroon.
Land conflicts in Argentina: From resistance to systemic transformation
- Food First
- 12 December 2013
Peasant movements are resisting this assault on their lands and fighting to transform the system.