The rush of foreign investment into Pakistan’s agricultural sector being facilitated through Corporate Farming Ordinance will increase landlessness, food insecurity, water scarcity and agroecological degradation.
Dutch Pension fund PGGM has committed between €50m and €100m to a Cargill owned private equity fund that invests in farmland and crop production.
Les travailleurs de Senhuile déplorent « les difficiles conditions de travail des employés » et prévoient de tenir un sit-in à la base et une marche pour exiger une meilleure condition de travail.
- La Signare
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02 February 2015
Ce 2 février, Journée Internationale des Zones Humides, une campagne dénommée "SOS-NDIAEL" est lancée par le Réseau Nord pour la Protection Environnement Mondial.
- Ndar Buzz
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02 February 2015
Après la sortie médiatique du secrétaire général de la Confédération démocratique des syndicats libres du Sénégal (Cdsl) Ibhima SARR, qui accusait SENHUILE de vouloir réduire injustement ses employés, la direction de cette Société s’explique.
- Ndar Info
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02 February 2015
Jokplenu, an old community in the Volta Region of Ghana, owns lands on which Brazil Agro Business Group has taken over for a large scale rice farm.
- LandJustice4wa
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30 January 2015
A year after prohibiting foreigners from purchasing lands, Georgian officials have now announced that rights to own agricultural lands might return to foreigners under certain conditions.
- Georgia Today
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30 January 2015
ANC Secretary General Gwede Mantashe says there will also be compulsory declaration of land holdings by the propertied class
Changes and sudden loss of lands for indigenous people have far-reaching implications besides livelihood, income, and food. Despite pressure on indigenous communities, people are finding ways to defend their rights.
- Oxfam America
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29 January 2015
Americans were the biggest buyers of New Zealand land in the past five years, although buyers from China topped the list in 2014.
Saskatchewan’s Farm Land Security Board has issued its second decision on a case that could transform the way land is bought and sold in the province.
- Western Producer
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29 January 2015
Receiver managers of embattled flower farm Karuturi are disputing claims the farm and its assets have been put up for sale.
- KTN Kenya
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28 January 2015