A Chinese firm, Wuhan Longfecund Agricultural Development Company Ltd., has concluded plans to set up a feed mill and maize farm in Cross River State, Nigeria.
The National Catholic Secretariat in collaboration with Caritas Ghana and the Centre for Indigenous Knowledge and Development has launched a joint report on ‘land grabbing’ in Ghana.
- Ghana News Agency
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24 August 2016
A venda de terras agrícolas para investidores estrangeiros, um tema considerado fora de questão na gestão da presidente afastada Dilma Rousseff, voltou a ser discutida no governo.
In the last decade, more than 22 million ha of land have been contracted to large-scale land acquisitions in Africa, leading to increased pressures, competition, and conflicts over freshwater resources.
Provincial administration office in Champassak, Laos gave the go ahead for a US$9 million project by Korean company G Farm for planting cashew nut trees and processing plant. Agriculture and Forestry Department plans to promote the growing of 10,000 hectares of nuts in the province.
- Vientiane Times
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23 August 2016
Kazakhstan decided Aug. 18 to extend for five years a recently imposed moratorium on the implementation of controversial amendments to its land law.
- Astana Times
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23 August 2016
The earliest land protests took place in 2003 when Kazakhstan entered into an agreement with China to rent 7,000 hectares of land – a deal that would have employed 3,000 Chinese workers.
- China in Central Asia
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23 August 2016
La sociéte saoudienne Al-Horaish veut mettre en valeur 120 000 ha au Niger
This paper aims to(re)discover what ProSAVANA was and turned to be though a collective reading of primary documents
- No! to landgrab, Japan
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22 August 2016
Um trabalho colectivo do grupo de cidadãos e ONGs japoneses que requereu e reuniu mais de cem documentos primários relacionados com o ProSAVANA e realizaram uma leitura analítica.
- No! to landgrab, Japão
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22 August 2016
Speaker of Gazira state Legislative Council disclosed the Sudanese government and Chinese companies have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) allowing the latter to grow one million feddans of cotton in Sudan.
- Sudan Tribune
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22 August 2016
D'ici le 30 août, le Liberia devrait avoir voté une loi qui renforcerait le droit des communautés locales sur des "terres coutumières"
- CommodAfrica
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22 August 2016