Violent corporate land grabbing is driven by logging corporations operating with little oversight in some of the world’s largest rainforests, all with the direct complicity of many politicians.
- Free City Radio
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01 December 2013
China led the reclamation of the largest abandoned rice farm in Mozambique, with the blessing of the authorities. But now the company involved is accused of land grabbing and displacing thousands.
- The Ecologist
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30 November 2013
An investor is seeking to partner with the Bunyala Irrigation Scheme to improve rice production in the area to boost food security in Kenya.
- Business Daily
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29 November 2013
Human rights groups claim German taxpayer money is used to fund a program that benefits land grabbers.
- Der Spiegel
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27 November 2013
The UK is the fourth largest investor in the world in African land - but how much does it have and what is it using it for?
- Guardian
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27 November 2013
In Ethiopia, where pastoralists and indigenous communities are displaced and evicted from their traditional lands amidst widespread human rights abuses, history is repeating itself.
Karuturi, like many other large-scale investors, underestimated the complexity of opening land for large-scale commercial agriculture.
- Bloomberg
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26 November 2013
Cameroon President Paul Biya has given final approval to New York venture capital firm Herakles Capital to start work on a 20,000 hectares palm oil plantation, despite opposition from some locals and conservation groups.
Jenaan, which has agricultural investments from Spain to Ethiopia, said it changed its policy in part because it had been losing money in Egypt and in part due to advice from the government of Abu Dhabi.
An American grain consultant says there's a lot of interest from the United States farming sector in investing in West Australian agriculture.
The writing is on the wall for anyone who doubts China's plans to invest billions of dollars for a big stake in WA agriculture.
- West Australian
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23 November 2013
BEK-Pengxin Agritech aims to have more than one million hectares of land producing food and high-end by-products from agricultural estates in each of South Africa’s provinces.
- City Press
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23 November 2013