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Resistance to Prosavana in Mozambique
- PLAAS
- 20 May 2015
The resistance to ProSavana stems from the fact that it aims to integrate peasants in a production process which is exclusively controlled by large TNCs and multilateral financing institutions.
Chinese and other foreign investments in the Brazilian soybean complex
- PLAAS
- 20 May 2015
Neither “global land grab” nor “South-South cooperation” discourses do justice to the complexity we witness since Chinese investments in the Brazilian soybean agribusiness have begun taking shape in recent years.
Incapable d’exploiter 10 hectares, Sen-huile accusée par les populations de Ndiael de vouloir céder les terres improductives
- L’Observateur
- 19 May 2015
Après trois années de résistance et de grincement de dents, le projet Senhuile serait prêt à renoncer à 10 000 ha des 26 000 soustraits de la réserve du Ndiaël.
History repeats as farce: Giving away land without consultation in Mozambique
- FoodTank
- 19 May 2015
The Mozambique Council of Ministers is considering a massive project along the Lurio River in northern Mozambique without consulting the estimated 500,000 affected people in the project area.
Angola's blooming banana plantations offer new hope for farming
- Reuters
- 19 May 2015
A 100,000-acre sugar farm around 300 km east of Luanda is a partnership between state-oil company Sonangol, Brazil's Odebrecht and Damar, an Angolan company owned by Vice President Manuel Vicente and top state security officials.
Special Task Force to implement SABL recommendations
- ActNow!
- 19 May 2015
Any action by the PNG government to address the SABL land grab and illegal logging is very welcome - but landowners have been waiting two years, not six months as the Chief Secretary claims
Global land grabbing and political reactions 'from below'
- JPS
- 19 May 2015
The special issue of the Journal of Peasant Studies demonstrates that political reactions ‘from below’ to global land grabbing have been vastly more varied and complex than is usually assumed.
Sour sale trial shines light on HFA dealings
- 19 May 2015
A Chinese-backed company’s dealings with a family were put under the blowtorch yesterday at the start of a Supreme Court trial into the collapse of an $8 million deal to buy farmland in Western Australia
Accord entre Senhuile et les villages de Gninth : Le protocole de la controverse
- Le Sud Quotidien
- 19 May 2015
«Le protocole d’accord, c’est de la mascarade. C’était initié par le gouverneur de la région de Saint-Louis pour dire que les populations sont d’accord sur le projet alors que ce n’est pas le cas».
Prosavana espera plano aprovado este ano e promete não expulsar camponeses em Moçambique
- SAPO
- 18 May 2015
O Prosavana, um megaprojeto agrícola do executivo moçambicano para o norte do país, espera ter o plano diretor do programa aprovado pelo Governo até ao final do ano e assegurou hoje que nenhum camponês será expulso das suas terras.
Novo projeto agrícola é tratado com secretismo pelo Governo, denunciam ONGs
- DW
- 18 May 2015
Segundo as organizações, o projeto foi apresentado secretamente ao Governo moçambicano em janeiro de 2014 e já está no Conselho de Ministros aguardando aprovação.
Chinese company Kimberley Agricultural Investment sows first crops in Ord Stage 2
- ABC
- 18 May 2015
Of the 600 hectares of farmland that KAI has cleared and prepared, roughly 250 hectares will be dedicated to the chia, with sweet sorghum to be planted next.