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Central Africa takes steps to improve agricultural investment
- IISD
- 05 December 2013
Over sixty parliamentarians from Central Africa met in Malabo, the capital of Equatorial Guinea, to discuss how to promote sustainable agricultural investment.
Brazilian indigenous leader murdered
- World Bulletin
- 04 December 2013
A Brazilian indigenous leader who spent decades campaigning for his tribe’s right to live on their ancestral land was murdered on Sunday night
Africa's vanishing forests
- On Earth
- 04 December 2013
That palm oil listed in the ingredients of your favorite candy bar or lipstick? More and more of it comes from forest and farmland razed by multinational corporations a world away.
Tanzania: Govt pledges to continue supporting Rubada
- Tanzania Daily News
- 03 December 2013
The government pledges to continue supporting Rufiji Basin Development Authority (RUBADA) in its endeavour to encourage large scale plantations in the country
Deutsche Bank fund sells stake in controversial firm
- Deutsche Welle
- 03 December 2013
Germany's largest bank, Deutsche Bank, confirms that one of its funds has sold its shareholding in a Vietnamese company accused of rights abuses in Laos and Cambodia.
Institutions are blazing a trail in CIS farming
- Moscow Times
- 02 December 2013
Interest in farming from a new class of institutional investors — including hedge, endowment, pension, private equity and sovereign wealth funds — has surged.
Interview — Violent corporate land grabbing in Papua New Guinea
- Free City Radio
- 01 December 2013
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.
China accused of stealth land grab over Mozambique's great rice project
- The Ecologist
- 30 November 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.
China institute seeks to boost rice production
- Business Daily
- 29 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.
Land grab: Foreign firms drive Cambodians from farms
- Der Spiegel
- 27 November 2013
Human rights groups claim German taxpayer money is used to fund a program that benefits land grabbers.
How much African land is the UK leasing?
- Guardian
- 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?
Land grabbing and forced evictions in Ethiopia
- ASO
- 26 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.