The Brazilian State prosecutor for Pernambuco announced last week that the Federal Public Ministry will launch an investigation into delays in resolving one of the cases highlighted in Oxfam's report.
Au Cameroun, le projet pharaonique et controversé de la société américaine Herakles Farms de planter des palmiers à huile semble avoir tourné court. Et le pdg de la firme a disparu comme par enchantement.
- Afrik.com
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30 October 2013
Indofood is on the lookout to lease and develop parcels of land for large-scale commercial farming.
- Business Mirror
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29 October 2013
Chinese investors may own less than 1 per cent of Australian farmland, but the true level is not known because it is hidden behind a corporate veil, according to a new report
- The Australian
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29 October 2013
Ethiopia's huge agricultural output has brought about an economic miracle for the nation. But inhabitants are being pushed out of their native land by foreign investors and have no share in the profits.
- Journeyman Pictures
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28 October 2013
Church leaders and activists from six SADC countries appealed to African parliaments to come up with laws that protect land owners, promote land rights and criminalise massive land grabbing.
- Zambia Post
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28 October 2013
The state government has recently acquired land in Shongai, Benin Republic as part of effort to increase arable farmlands beyond the state’s boundaries for food production.
- National Mirror
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26 October 2013
One of the central figures of the Brazilian ‘sem-terra’ (without land) movement, Augusto Juncal, was in Maputo as a ‘heavyweight reinforcement’ for the campaign by Mozambican small-scale farmers against ProSavana.
Throughout Merauke Regency in the southern part of West Papua, a land controversially annexed by Indonesia 50 years ago, indigenous communities are having to learn fast how to resist corporate manipulations.
- Awas MIFEE
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23 October 2013
Dutch pension funds, banks and corporations - and even the government - are implicated in the new wave of land and water grabbing worldwide.
Tanzania’s Minister for Agriculture and Food Security was in London where he spoke with investors about investing in Tanzania's agriculture sector.
- The Citizen
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23 October 2013
Bulgaria’s Parliament has controversially decided to extend the existing moratorium on the sale of agriculture land to foreigners.