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Indian rose growers raise scent of division in Ethiopia
- BBC
- 04 August 2013
Slideshow about controversies around Karuturi's flower farm operations in Ethiopia
China to invest $2.6 billion in Ukraine’s agriculture
- Ukrinform
- 03 August 2013
Ukraine’s State Food and Grain Corporation and China’s Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps have signed a memorandum on cooperation in supporting priority projects in agriculture. Chinese investment in Ukraine’s agricultural sector will reach more than $2.6 billion.
Agribusiness large-scale land acquisitions and human rights in Southeast Asia
- FPP
- 02 August 2013
Updates from Indonesia, Thailand, Philippines, Malaysia, Cambodia, Timor-Leste and Burma, by Forest Peoples Programme
Help demand justice for communities robbed in huge illegal land grab
- Act Now
- 01 August 2013
Your help is needed now for communities across Papua New Guinea who are still waiting for justice in one of our planets largest illegal land grabs.
The Rockefeller Foundation highlights Olam rice initiative as a ‘catalytic innovation’ in African agriculture
- 4-traders
- 01 August 2013
The Rockefeller Foundation says the 10,000 ha rice farm and outgrower scheme that Olam is constructing in Nigeria is a win-win land project.
Capital Alternatives and Capital Carbon Credits taken to the High Court by the Financial Conduct Authority
- redd-monitor
- 01 August 2013
The UK Financial Conduct Authority has taken Sierra Leone farmland investor Capital Alternatives to the High Court for “promoting and/or operating collective investment schemes (CISs) in the UK illegally and without our authorisation”.
Land to the tillers: Responses to land grabs
- Truthout
- 31 July 2013
Land reform movements, organizations of indigenous peoples, small farmers, and other citizens are responding to the increased sacking of land and other natural resources throughout the global South.
Mozambican civil society announces campaign against the privatisation of land
- O Pais
- 30 July 2013
More than 30 civil society organisations and peasant groups have decided to unite their forces in a national campaign against the privatisation of land, with the Prosavana project at the top of their list.
Louis Dreyfus hungry for more agricultural assets-document
- Reuters
- 29 July 2013
Trading giant Louis Dreyfus plans to invest in assets ranging from orange groves to sugar refiners, it said in the first glimpse of its strategy following the departure of its long-serving CEO in June.
Charoen Pokphand to buy into Russia Baltic Pork Invest
- Just-Food
- 29 July 2013
Charoen Pokphand Foods acquires majority stake in Russian pork producer Russia Baltic Pork Invest of Norway, giving it a 8,000ha grain farm and several large scale pig farms in Kaliningrad.
Palm oil company guards injure four villagers in Indonesian Borneo clash
- Mongabay
- 29 July 2013
The clash is the latest incident in a long-running conflict between Wilmar subsidiary PT Bumi Sawit Kencana and villagers in Kotawaringin Timur district, Central Kalimantan.
The global land grab
- IBA
- 29 July 2013
Rising demand for agricultural commodities has led to a ‘land grab’ in some of the world’s poorest countries. The International Bar Associaiton assesses the legal implications and the prospects for the developing world.