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UK foreign aid, the final insult
- Daily Mail
- 25 May 2013
DFID documents reveal that, despite denials of funding forced relocations, British cash pays salaries of officials implementing the Ethiopian government's 'villagisation' programme.
'Indonesia is seeing a new corporate colonialism'
- Guardian
- 25 May 2013
Multinational companies have been encouraged to seize and deforest land owned by indigenous people, say human rights groups
Farmland - the new "blood diamonds" in Sierra Leone?
- Truthout
- 23 May 2013
The seeds of the next conflict are not diamonds but something far more valuable to local people - farmland.
Update on foreign investment in Ukrainian agricultural land
- Mondaq
- 23 May 2013
If current amendments to Ukranian legislation are approved, foreign investors will still not be allowed to purchase Ukrainian farm land despite any "buy-out" options that may exist in their current lease agreements
Herakles Farms suspends activities in Cameroon
- Business in Cameroon
- 22 May 2013
On May 18, 2013 Herakles Farms announced that it has suspended work in Cameroon in response to an order it received from Cameroon’s Ministry of Forestry & Wildlife.
Liberian government publishes landmark resource audit, but urgently needs to address findings
- Global Witness
- 22 May 2013
Audit says Liberian government failed to fully apply its own laws when awarding land concessions to palm oil companies Sime Darby and Golden Veroleum and recommends urgent remedial action
Herakles Exposed: The truth behind Herakles Farms false promises in Cameroon
- Oakland Institute
- 22 May 2013
Company documents provided to the Oakland Institute contain evidence that Herakles Farms is misleading investors, local communities, the Cameroonian government, and the general public.
The anatomy of a Mozambique land deal
- IRIN
- 22 May 2013
A multi-million dollar “ethical” plantation development in northwestern Mozambique - the initiative of a clutch of Scandinavian faith-based organizations - has faced alleged acts of sabotage by the very people it was designed to assist, illustrating the divisions between foreign benefactors and local communities.
Are Indian companies “land grabbing” in Africa?
- Global Voices
- 22 May 2013
The Hindu's Addis Ababa correspondent Aman Sethi has recently written about Indian companies’ involvement in Ethiopia and Mali, and on 19 May he took part in a Q&A session on Facebook on the issue of so-called Indian land grabs in African countries.
MVP Group eyes Davao farm
- PhilStar
- 22 May 2013
Hong Kong-based First Pacific Co. Ltd’s agribusiness unit PT Indofood is eyeing 30,000 hectares of land in Davao Oriental, Philippines, for palm oil production.
Lebanese farmland firm to invest up to $800m in Sudan
- Reuters
- 21 May 2013
Lebanese farmland investor GLB Invest plans to invest up to $800 million in Sudan to produce animal feed to be sold to Saudi Arabia, its president said on Tuesday.
European banks and penion funds fuel land-grabs in Uganda
- FOE
- 21 May 2013
European banks and pension funds continue to finance one of the largest and most destructive palm oil giants Wilmar International, according to new research released today by Friends of the Earth Europe.