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Call for spotlight on PNG land grab at APEC Forest meeting
- Radio NZ
- 29 July 2015
Papua New Guinea NGO ActNow! says 5 million ha were illegally acquired from traditional land holders and APEC Ministers need to know this.
Tchad : Djeralar Miankeol acquitté !
- PRNewswire
- 29 July 2015
Condamné à deux ans de prison ferme pour « outrage à magistrat », la Cour d'appel de Moundou a prononcé la relaxe inconditionnelle du défenseur des droits à la terre.
Les gestes du BJP en direction du monde rural
- Les Échos
- 29 July 2015
Modi veut étendre un système d'assurance sociale aux milieux ruraux. La loi sur le foncier a fortement irrité les paysans.
Shanghai Pengxin receive offers for 'legitimate' farm sale
- Stuff
- 28 July 2015
Bidders have made offers for what Shanghai Pengxin says is the "legitimate" sale of its dairy farms - the former Crafar farms - in south Waikato, New Zealand.
Debate levado a cabo pelo Governo sobre o ProSAVANA é para impressionar japoneses e brasileiros
- @Verdade
- 28 July 2015
O controverso ProSAVANA, oficialmente lançado em 2011, está em implementação ignorando o processo de diálogo e auscultação pública e as recomendações e preocupações das Organizações da Sociedade Civil.
Senegal’s infamous agri-business project, Senhuile SA, on verge of shutdown?
- DTE
- 28 July 2015
A recent report states that Senhuile SA is facing protests from residents of surrounding villages due to allegations of land grabbing and other instances of mismanagement.
U.S. NCP final statement on the specific instance between CED and RELUFA and Herakles Farms' affiliate SG Sustainable Oils Cameroon in Cameroon
- US NCP
- 28 July 2015
This Final Statement concludes the Specific Instance submitted on June 13, 2013 by CED and RELUFA with regards to the alleged conduct of Herakles Farms’ affiliate SG Sustainable Oils Cameroon (SGSOC) in Cameroon.
Triangular cooperation for agricultural development of the tropcial savannah of Mozambique
- JCC
- 28 July 2015
Presentation made by the 3rd Joint Coordination Committee of ProSAVANA on December 3, 2012 in Nampula
Mozambique: Foreign investment in agri-business but not farming?
- Club of Mozambique
- 28 July 2015
No new plantation has succeeded since independence. No new plantation investment has yet been profitable
Fertiliser firm to boost farmers productivity
- Daily News
- 28 July 2015
Yara and Unilever are partnering on a smallholder contract growing programme, connected to Unilever's 3,253 hectare tea plantation in the Southern Agricultural Growth Corridor (SAGCOT).
Australia: Senator Penny Wong slams Coalition agricultural foreign investment policy
- Weekly Times
- 28 July 2015
Labor’s trade spokeswoman Senator Penny Wong has slammed the Coalition’s agricultural foreign investment policy at today’s premier grains industry event.
Scandale financier aux Grands Moulins de Dakar : Le Directeur général Emile Elmalem viré
- Setal
- 28 July 2015
Emile Elmalem, le Directeur général des Grands moulins de Dakar (Gmd), a été emporté par un scandale financier dans lequel on retrouve Benjamin Dummai, ancien Directeur général de Senhuile Sa.