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Brasil, Grilagem: MP quer anulação de registros do Grupo Golin
- 180 Graus
- 25 June 2016
Objetivo é coibir a realização de manobras fraudulentas e a aquisição irregular de terras.
Malaysian land rights activist Bill Kayong murdered in broad daylight
- Mongabay
- 24 June 2016
Like other indigenous activists in Malaysia, Kayong actively conducted paralegal activities to raise the rights awareness in communities facing land grabbing by big oil palm or timber companies
Argentina, San Rafael: denuncian intento de usurpación de tierras campesinas en Punta de Agua
- Los Andes
- 24 June 2016
Integrantes de una empresa transnacional habrían ingresado sin permiso a la propiedad de un puestero, a quien habrían golpeado y amenazado.
Colombia: Las ZIDRES y el fenómeno internacional de acaparamiento de tierras
- Deslinde
- 24 June 2016
Las ZIDRES tienen varios elementos en común con las distintas modalidades de concesión que existen en el mundo para acumular tierras.
Russia-China agreement on grain hub calls for investing $1.1 bln
- RBTH
- 24 June 2016
The memorandum calls for establishing a major logistics corridor consisting of 30 facilities, including a grain terminal and 29 elevators in various parts of Russia to support shipments.
Taiwan firm plans to invest $2.5 bln in livestock farms, wharves in Ha Tinh
- Thanh Nien
- 24 June 2016
Taiwan’s Wei Yu Engineering Company has sought licenses from Vietnam's central province of Ha Tinh to build a US$1 billion livestock farming and food processing complex and a $1.5 billion wharf.
Water scarcity, public protest slow foreign farmland purchases
- Circle of Blue
- 24 June 2016
New GRAIN study finds changed conditions in international “land grabs.”
How far have we got since the great land rights debates five years ago?
- Landportal.info
- 24 June 2016
Duncan Pruett reflects on the last 5 years at work advocating on the issues of land rights and foreign investments in agriculture.
Food is getting so expensive in India that it now wants to farm in Africa and Myanmar
- Quartz
- 23 June 2016
India, one of the world’s largest consumers and importers of pulses, may soon take over agricultural land in Africa and Myanmar to meet growing demand in its domestic market.
Policy uncertainty holding back investment in agriculture
- howwemadeitinafrica.com
- 23 June 2016
Grow Africa executive director William Asiko dismisses concerns about large-scale land grabbing in Ethiopia as "perceptions".
“Feed Africa” – AfDB develops strategy for Africa’s agricultural transformation
- AfDB
- 23 June 2016
The Bank will itself invest US $24 billion and leverage additional investments through equity, quasi equity, debt and risk instruments to catalyze investments at scale from the private sector and with co-financing from traditional donors and new players.
People’s manual on the Guidelines on Governance of Land, Fisheries and Forests
- IPC
- 23 June 2016
The People’s Manual is a pedagogical and didactic guide, which aims to make it easier to understand the Guidelines and to provide a practical approach to people on how to use them in their struggles.