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Annulation de l’accord entre le Sénégal et Addoha sur 10 000 ha au Fouta
- Commodafrica
- 19 April 2019
2 543 parties civiles se sont regroupées autour d’un seul avocat pour se défendre devant la Cour suprême de justice
Who owns the country? The secretive companies hoarding England's land
- Guardian
- 19 April 2019
Multi-million pound corporations with complex structures have purchased the very ground we walk on – and we are only just beginning to discover the damage it is doing to Britain.
Ethiopia: Gambellan solutions for Gambellan problems
- Ethiopia Insight
- 18 April 2019
While Ethiopian and foreign companies such as Karuturi Global and Saudi Star have been given large leases and credit to farm lands in Gambella, local people have largely been left out, just as they have been excluded for decades
Saudi-based SAK plans $100 mln Turkey investments despite tense ties
- Reuters
- 17 April 2019
Saudi Arabia-based SAK Consultants is looking into investing in land or forming a partnership with landowners to export vegetables and meat to Saudi Arabia.
Georgia's ban on foreign landowners leaves farmers in limbo
- Reuters
- 17 April 2019
A ban on foreigners owning farmland introduced last year in Georgia's new constitution has made it more difficult for farmers to borrow because the country's mostly foreign-owned banks will no longer accept farmland as collateral.
OIO changes could see more advertising of farmland sales
- Radio NZ
- 17 April 2019
Farmers in New Zealand wanting to sell their land to sell to a foreign buyer might have to advertise their properties more thoroughly than they do now, according to new proposals from the government.
The Declaration on peasants’ rights should become a political tool for agrarian reform and social justice
- LVC
- 17 April 2019
Member organisations of La Via Campesina in Africa, America, Europe, and Asia are confronted by changes in soil use and by landgrabbbing on a massive and alarming scale that is in direct contradiction with popular agrarian reform.
Agriculture en RDC : un collectif d’associations appelle à soutenir les familles plutôt que les industriels
- AFP
- 17 April 2019
Les militants congolais ont interpellé la Banque mondiale et la Banque africaine de développement pour que « cesse l’accaparement des terres ».
Affaire des terres du Fouta : La Cour suprême annule l'octroi de 10.000 hectares à Addoha
- Dakartactu
- 16 April 2019
La Cour suprême du Sénégal a annulé jeudi dernier l'octroi de 10.000 hectares au groupe Addoha du Maroc. Si Macky Sall avait ordonné le "blocage temporaire" de cette attribution, la Cour suprême, elle, a tout cassé.
Zambian gov't says partnering with China to boost agricultural production
- Xinhua
- 16 April 2019
Minister of Agriculture Michael Katambo says that Zambia is partnering with foreign investors, especially the Chinese in the farming industry to improve national food production.
World Bank dispossessing rural poor
- IPS
- 16 April 2019
By scoring countries in terms of ease of accessing land for agribusiness, the World Bank's new EBA land indicator seeks to accelerate land privatization and to facilitate corporate access to land in developing countries.
UAE companies one of the biggest landowners in Serbia
- Serbian Monitor
- 15 April 2019
Elite Agro LLC, registered in Abu Dhabi, recently acquired the 100% ownership in Al Rawafed Holding, thus also becoming the owner of 12,000 hectares of arable land in Serbia and one of the largest landowners in the country.