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Myanmar works for formulating policy framework for foreign investment in agriculture
- Xinhua
- 31 May 2015
"There will be concerns about agriculture investment unless land ownership is opened to foreign investors,' says the OECD's Jan Rielander.
Délinquance foncière au Mali : Une «bombe» sociopolitique à désamorcer en toute urgence
- Mali Actu
- 30 May 2015
Fléau à grande échelle, le phénomène d’accaparement des terres continue de mobiliser la société civile malienne.
Transnational resistance against land grabbing in Mali
- Afrique-Europe-Interact
- 30 May 2015
Two villages, Sanamadougou and Sahou, in Mali, have been fighting for the past five years against eviction from their land by the large-scale investor Modibo Keita.
Failed harvest
- Business Standard
- 30 May 2015
Many Punjab farmers who went to Africa and Georgia in search of greener pastures are returning home
Mitr Phol growing in Laos
- Bangkok Post
- 29 May 2015
Mitr Phol Group, Asia's biggest sugar producer, has earmarked 3.5 billion baht to double production in Laos, fed by a plantation area in the southern province of Savannakhet.
An Indian dynasty betting on Romanian agriculture
- Black Sea Group
- 29 May 2015
Gupta family, one of the most powerful business dynasties in India alongside that of Lakshmi Mittal, bought two farms with a total of 2,500 hectares of land in Teleorman.
Deforestation, exploitation, hypocrisy: no end to Wilmar's palm oil land grabs
- The Ecologist
- 29 May 2015
While Wilmar spins green rhetoric, its bulldozers are still destroying vast swathes of forest and farmland.
African land is a profitable but potentially dangerous investment
- NGO Pulse
- 29 May 2015
Foreigners mostly seek agricultural land and land for tourism developments, but all foreigner-owned land in Africa holds the potential to prompt violence from displaced people.
Kuwaiti group to invest in sugar cane plantation in southern Mozambique
- Bernama
- 29 May 2015
Kuwait's Al-Badel International Development Company said it will launch a US$1.5 billion project to grow sugar cane in southern Mozambican province of Gaza within the next three months.
Reforme Foncière au Sénégal : des mécanismes de sécurité des investissements étrangers
- Financial Afrik
- 29 May 2015
La commission nationale de réforme foncière (CNRF) s’est engagée à mettre en œuvre des canaux de sécurité des terres octroyées aux investisseurs.
La société civile réclame une Charte tripartite
- Madagascar Tribune
- 29 May 2015
La société civile relance le processus d’élaboration d’une Charte tripartite pour le respect des droits humain dans le cadre des investissements privés - miniers et agricoles - à Madagascar.
Mali : Accaparement des terres dans les villages de Sanamadougou/Saou et San : Les victimes projettent un sit-in
- Le Républicain
- 29 May 2015
L'UACDDD et la CMAT envisagent d’organiser un sit-in dénommé « village des sans terre » du 2 au 4 juin 2015 à la bourse du travail.