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What is your pension doing in Africa?
- Danchurchaid
- 23 Mar 2015
DanChurchAid, CARE Denmark and MS calls for more transparency of pension investments in African agriculture.
Senegal, il caso Senhuile non accenna a placarsi
- Re:Common
- 23 Mar 2015
Senhuile SA, il controverso e contestassimo consorzio agro-alimentare italo-senegalese di proprietà del Gruppo Finanziario Tampieri di Faenza è finito di nuovo sotto i riflettori.
IISD : Guide pour la négociation de contrats d’investissement pour les terres arables et l'eau
- IISD
- 23 Mar 2015
Ce guide vise à attirer des investissements dans l'agriculture tout en assurant que ceux-ci contribuent à sortir les gens de la pauvreté, participent au développement rural et protéger l'environnement.
Kick-start meeting: CFS Principles on Responsible Agricultural Investment
- IAFN
- 20 Mar 2015
This week members of the Private Sector Mechanism (PSM) were at the UN FAO Head Quarters in Rome to give their views on how new Principles on Responsible Agricultural Investment can be used to respond to the urgent need to increase global investment in farm production.
World Bank's Conference on Land & Poverty is a cruel farce
- The Ecologist
- 20 Mar 2015
On Monday, March 23th the World Bank's Conference on Land and Poverty begins in the US. But farmer organizations, indigenous groups, trade unions and others denounce the whole exercise as a sham that is all about accelerating corporate land grabs and robbing the poor that the Bank was founded to assist.
Ucrania: ¿Futuro granero de OGM de Europa?
- Minuto Digital
- 20 Mar 2015
“El conflicto de Ucrania es utilizado para vender tierras a los grandes consorcios”
Kick-Start Meeting: CFS Principles on Responsible Agricultural Investment
- agrifood.net
- 20 Mar 2015
Members of the Private Sector Mechanism were at the FAO in Rome to give their views on how new Principles on Responsible Agricultural Investment can be used to respond to the urgent need to increase global investment in farm production.
#NoLandNoLife Philippines: Land grabbing through contract farming
- PAN AP
- 20 Mar 2015
PAN Asia Pacific (PANAP) and Asian Peasant Coalition (APC) declaring “Day of the Landless” and launch regional campaign “No Land, No Life!” on March 29, highlighting foreign investments facilitating agribusiness land deals that aggravated landlessness, food insecurity, poverty, and loss of livelihood.
China's Marxist communal farming makes way for agribusiness
- LA Times
- 20 Mar 2015
Most of China's agribusinesses are locally owned, but foreign investors are seeding the market. In rural Anhui province, Cargill recently opened an operation named Site 82 that breeds, slaughters and processes 65 million chickens a year.
Costa Rica: Muestra huelga abusos de transnacionales
- La Razón San Luis
- 19 Mar 2015
Un alto porcentaje de la actividad bananera está en manos de empresas transnacionales.
Local groups pour capital in agriculture projects
- VietNamNet
- 19 Mar 2015
The head of Hoang Anh Gia Lai Group, Doan Nguyen Duc, now owns 46,000 ha of rubber, 10,000 ha of sugar cane and 6,000 ha of corn in Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia and Myanmar and plans to raise 236,000 cows in Laos.
Illovo Sugar Limited Launches its Group Guidelines on Land and Land Rights
- Illovo
- 19 Mar 2015
Illovo Sugar Limited is pleased to announce the launch of its Group Guidelines on Land and Land Rights.