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Video: West African women defend traditional palm oil
- GRAIN
- 18 May 2016
New video shows how rural women in West Africa are working to protect traditional palm oil production in the face of land grabbing by industrial oil palm plantations.
Chinese investors look into agriculture potential
- Fiji Times
- 18 May 2016
The Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Qingdao in China is looking into Fiji's agriculture sector as a potential area of investment.
Saravan approves concession for custard apple plantation
- Vientiane Times
- 18 May 2016
Saravan provincial authorities in Laos approve a 200 ha land concession to a Korean company which will grow custard apple and moringa for export
Thomson Reuters Foundation launches Place to put land and property rights on global news agenda
- Reuters
- 17 May 2016
Thomson Reuters Foundation today launched Place (Property, Land, Access, Connections, Empowerment), an innovative platform to boost coverage of land and property rights, one of the most under-reported issues worldwide.
La Fondation Thomson Reuters lance la première plateforme d'information mondiale sur les droits fonciers
- Commodafrica
- 17 May 2016
La Fondation Thomson Reuters, en collaboration avec Omidyar Network, a lancé hier PLACE, une plateforme pour couvrir les droits fonciers
Le réchauffement climatique menace la sécurité alimentaire du Mali
- Mondafrique
- 16 May 2016
le Mali est fragilisé par les conséquences ravageuses du changement climatique et de l'accaparement des terres. Mondafrique publie le témoignage d'Ousmane Barké Diallo, éleveur malien.
Mali : Front social : La révolte de la Cstm
- L'Aurore
- 16 May 2016
Les syndicats affiliés à la Cstm ont investi la rue de Bamako pour condamner l’immobilisme du gouvernement face aux problèmes des masses laborieuses, y compris l’accaparement des terres et l’expropriation des paysans
Interdire l'achat de terres agricoles par des multinationales ?
- SudRadio
- 16 May 2016
Entretien avec Guillaume Darrouy du Centre National des Jeunes Agriculteurs (France)
Australia's $1 billion beef boom funded by foreign investment and super
- AFR
- 16 May 2016
Australia's cattle station sector is set to reach more than $1 billion-worth of deals in less than a year, with the two biggest sources of investment being the controversial areas of foreign investment and superannuation.
Dry weather forces BrasilAgro to slash corn sowings
- Agrimoney
- 16 May 2016
Land prices are up across Brazil, with prices in the Northeast up 7.5% over the past 12 month, BrasilAgro said.
Why Chinese agriculture engagement in Africa is not what it seems
- China File
- 16 May 2016
Based on new research in four African countries, Professor Ian Scoones says far from being on a land-grabbing spree in Africa, Chinese immigrant farmers and the deployment of Chinese agricultural technology and training programmes are having a positive impact.
#NoLandNoLife | Indonesia: PANAP conveys solidarity with Kampung Dadap’s struggle for land and livelihood
- PANAP
- 16 May 2016
We convey our firm solidarity with the people of Kampung Dadap in their struggle against the “PT Tangerang International City” (TIC) – a government backed massive reclamation project in Kampung Dadap, Tangerang Regency in Indonesia, and express our serious concern on the repression reportedly being committed against them.