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Farmland in demand
- LA Times
- 26 December 2012
Investors snap up California acreage, pushing prices to record highs, as global appetites for almonds and pistachios increase.
Pour mettre fin aux expulsions forcées au Cambodge
- Amnesty International
- 26 December 2012
Une centaine de militants ont repris la chorégraphie « Gangnam style » pour exiger la fin des expulsions forcées et de l’accaparement des terres au Cambodge
Governo reitera que Pro-Savana não vai confiscar terras dos camponeses
- Radio Moçambique
- 26 December 2012
O governo reitera que nenhum agricultor perderá as suas áreas de cultivo em resultado de implementação do Programa de Cooperação Triangular para o Desenvolvimento Agrícola das Savanas Tropicais e Moçambique.
Institutions seek long-term value in responsible farmland investing
- Institutional Investor
- 24 December 2012
Retirement fund and financial services firm TIAA-CREF is helping to meet the growing institutional demand for sustainably managed farmland, which can deliver stable returns above inflation.
Hongrie : Les investisseurs étrangers ne peuvent plus acheter de terres agricoles
- La France Agricole
- 24 December 2012
Les investisseurs étrangers ne sont plus autorisés à acheter des terres agricoles en Hongrie, en vertu d'une loi votée par le Parlement et qualifiée d'« historique » par le gouvernement.
Hungary bans foreign farmland ownership
- UPI
- 21 December 2012
Hungary this week moved to ban foreign ownership of agricultural land under its new constitution amid fears over the future of family farming in the country.
Colombia: El dilema de la compra de tierras. ¿Cómo trazar los límites?
- Semana
- 21 December 2012
El país no ha definido todavía cuánta tierra pueden comprar los extranjeros. Hay que encontrar un equilibrio entre agroindustria competitiva, seguridad alimentaria y mano de obra campesina.
The Report: Algeria 2011
- Oxford Business Group
- 21 December 2012
Making credit easier to obtain for many farmers and possibly opening up agriculture to foreign investment are two of the latest moves designed to develop the sector in Algeria
¿Quién es quién? Calyx Agro: la compañía de Louis Dreyfus para el farming y real estate
- Infocampo
- 21 December 2012
La companía fue fundada en 2007 con el objeto de canalizar fondos para la compra y desarrollo de campos en la Argentina, Brasil, Paraguay y Uruguay, la producción agropecuaria y la comercialización de sus productos.
The impact of MIFEE presence at Bian River and Maro River, West Papua
- Tabloidjubi.com
- 21 December 2012
Report from Indigenous Peoples Organization of Bian Enim
Fighting to save Africa's richest rainforest
- IPS
- 20 December 2012
Nasako Besingi, director of environmental NGO Struggle to Economize the Future, says protests against a controversial palm oil plantation in the Korup National Park, southwest Cameroon will continue despite arrests and intimidation.
Rogue palm oil firm ordered to stop clearing in Muara Tae
- EIA
- 20 December 2012
he Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) has upheld a complaint lodged by the London-based Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) against a rogue palm oil company and has ordered it to immediately stop clearing customary forests in Indonesian Borneo.