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AgDevCo investment of $4million in a Potato Seed growing company and an out-grower scheme in Mbala’s Saise Farm gathers momentum
- ZBT
- 21 July 2016
AgDevCo’s investment of $3.9m will be used to establish irrigation (250ha) and power.
Report says overseas investors should be allowed to buy our farms
- Herald Sun
- 20 July 2016
Draft report on Australia agriculture regulation calls for the sale of any farmland or agribusiness worth less than $250 million to foreign interests to be exempt from any review process.
Les étrangers ne peuvent pas s’approprier des terres agricoles en Tunisie
- TAP
- 20 July 2016
La commission des finances, de la planification et du développement n’a pas approuvé la possibilité octroyée aux étrangers de devenir propriétaires de terres agricoles tunisiennes.
High Court gives creditors go-ahead to wind up Karuturi
- Business Daily
- 20 July 2016
Kenya's High Court has given creditors of the collapsed Karuturi Limited a go-ahead to begin the winding up of the once vibrant flower firm.
Brazil campaigners hail court decision canceling large land deal
- Reuters
- 20 July 2016
Campaigners in Brazil on Wednesday hailed a court decision to cancel a major land acquisition deal because investors had illegally acquired territory from small-scale farmers.
Foreigners own about 15% of Latvian agricultural land - farming association
- Baltic Course
- 20 July 2016
A ban on selling land to citizens of foreign countries was proposed in order to protect local farmers who cannot compete with large Danish, German and other European agricultural enterprises in terms of prices and possibilities to attract funding.
Procuradoria Regional do Sul do Piauí abre processo por grilagem de terras contra negociante
- Rede Social de Justiça e Direitos Humanos, GRAIN, Inter Pares, Solidarity Sweden-Latin America, FIAN e National Family Farm Coalition
- 20 July 2016
Um comerciante de terras brasileiro envolvido na venda de terras agrícolas para fundos de pensão dos Estados Unidos, Canadá, Alemanha e Suécia poderá sofrer processo criminal por ter grilado terras.
Court rules that Brazilian businessman who sold lands to TIAA-CREF acquired lands illegally
- Rede Social de Justiça e Direitos Humanos, GRAIN, Inter Pares, Solidarity Sweden-Latin America, FIAN and National Family Farm Coalition
- 20 July 2016
A Brazilian businessman involved in the acquisition of farmland by US, Canadian, German and Swedish pension funds could face criminal charges for land grabbing.
Investing in land for water: The converging legal regimes
- IISD
- 20 July 2016
This policy brief presents the different sources of law that are triggered by the use of water for farmland investments, and makes recommendations to help reconcile different legal regimes while ensuring water issues are adequately addressed.
Roses bloom, then thorns pop up
- The Telegraph
- 19 July 2016
To Karuturi, who has also offered to grow up to one million tonne of lentils for India on farm tracts leased in Ethiopia, the Mozambique model is an example of "political correctness."
Polémique autour du foncier à Ronck (Saint-Louis) : la Direction de Sen Huile et les populations à couteaux tirés
- Leral.net
- 18 July 2016
Une dizaine de villages de la commune de Ronck (Sénégal) qui s’activent dans la riziculture sont montés au créneau pour alerter l’Etat après une tentative d’expropriation de leurs terres par Sen Huile
Why is the EU funding Ethiopia's repression of land rights defenders?
- Thomson Reuters Foundation
- 18 July 2016
Opponents of the Ethiopian government’s policies have faced violence, but the EU has continued to provide funding for its commercial land deal projects.