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China's investment foray into Indonesia
- Asia Sentinel
- 06 June 2013
Sinochem and ZTE Energy, an agribusiness arm of the Shenzhen-based telecoms manufacturer, both bid for 150,000 hectares of palm-oil plantations in 2012, but were promptly rejected.
Retirement investors looking to purchase farmland with their self-directed IRA LLC
- IRA Financial Group
- 06 June 2013
US investors are increasingly looking to purchase farmland with their retirement funds to take advantage of the tax benefits of a Self-Directed IRA LLC
Working on land grabbing, 1963-2013
- Mokoro
- 05 June 2013
Veteran advocate against land grabbing, Robin Palmer, reflects on the context of his work since 1963 in this keynote presentation at the University of Limerick.
East Africans told to resettle: Are these 'land grabs' or progress?
- CSM
- 05 June 2013
Ethiopia’s effort to resettle local farmers into main villages while also leasing land to foreign corporations or wealthy Ethiopians has put Gambella under scrutiny for charges of violent forced relocations.
Polish farmers protest against land grabbing
- arc2020
- 05 June 2013
On 29th May, farmers in the Polish Region of West Pomerania organised a protest against land grabbing.
UK MPs call for transparency on land deals to protect smallholder farmers
- Guardian
- 05 June 2013
Report urges full implementation of UN voluntary guidelines and urges DfID to support agricultural extension services
A “black eye to bogus CARP,” farmers say on MVP Group’s 30,000-hectare palm oil plantation in Davao
- KMP
- 05 June 2013
KMP says the 30,000 hectares of land to be leased to Honk Kong-based company “spells land-grabbing” to Davao Oriental farmers.
West African farmers stand up against Bolloré
- ReAct
- 05 June 2013
Farmers in four African countries, whose land, lives and livelihoods have been disrupted by the expansion of plantations under the control of the Bolloré group, are organising coordinated actions at the group's general shareholders’ meeting.
African farmers fear large food production programme of Japan
- TBS
- 04 June 2013
TBS News visits Mozambique to look into why farmers are opposed to Japan's agricultural development programme with Brazil.
Land grabs across developing world must be stopped
- Irish Examiner
- 04 June 2013
The scale and pace of the large scale acquisition of land — or land grabbing — in the developing world in the last decade is unprecedented and is having disastrous consequences for the world’s poor.
Smithfield Foods – Shuanghui International: The biggest Chinese acquisition that isn't
- Caijing
- 03 June 2013
A Chinese company isn’t buying Smithfield. A shell company based in Cayman Islands is. Instead of a story about “China buying up the world”, this turns out to be a story of a precarious leveraged buyout deal by some large global private equity firms looking to borrow their way to a fortune.
Concern mounts over agriculture development plan in Mozambique
- Kyodo
- 03 June 2013
Concerns mount among civil society groups that an agriculture project in Mozambique, which Tokyo is pushing through as one of its key projects in Africa, may end up depriving local farmers of their land.