Oxfam campaigner Ben Phillips says the global land grab is hurting the world's poorest people.
Two Palm Beach County sugar companies have expanded into Belize in Central America by acquiring Belize Sugar Industries Ltd and its 4,000 acre sugar cane plantation.
- Palm Beach Post
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10 October 2012
Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen said Wednesday that the temporary halt on granting economic land concessions to new companies will be extended until he retires from politics.
International groups give full support and solidarity to the farmers in Burma/Myanmar in resisting land grabs in their country
In Ukraine, MPs did not extend land sale moratorium, but experts say it is legally impossible to launch market on January 1, 2013
The Chinese conglomerate that bought the Crafar Farms this year is not ruling out the possibility of buying more New Zealand dairy land to fuel its exports to China.
- NZ Herald
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09 October 2012
In 2010 alone, land-clearing for oil palm plantations in Kalimantan emitted more than 140 million metric tons of carbon dioxide – an amount equivalent to annual emissions from about 28 million vehicles.
- Stanford Report
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08 October 2012
Former World Bank rural advisor Derek Byerlee to tell conference that fears of a foreign farm land grab in Australia are unfounded.
- Fraser Coast Chronicle
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08 October 2012
This article is part of a series of feature stories on land grabbing in selected countries in Asia, as part of an awareness-raising campaign on how land grabs worsen hunger, in commemoration of 'World Foodless Day' on October 16 by PAN AP and its partner organisations. (http://www.panap.net/wfd)
The credibility of the international Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) has been called into question over its failure to act against a company bulldozing ancestral forests and perpetrating human rights abuses in Indonesia.
Land rights advocates are hoping ASEAN will come up with a regulatory framework to check private sector investment in land, particularly for agriculture, as land grabs and land-related conflicts soar in the region.
Kristin Davis, Gael Garcia Bernal and Angelique Kidjo join call on World Bank to freeze land deals