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Equatorial Palm Oil investira 20,5 millions de $ dans sa joint-venture au Liberia
- Ecofin
- 28 January 2015
EPO a l'ambition d'augmenter ses superficies exploitées au Liberia de 50 000 hectares d’ici 10 ans, et de doubler ce chiffre en 20 ans.
Dominion Farm's land grab in Nigeria
- ERA/FoEN | CEED
- 28 January 2015
Farmers in Taraba State refuse to give up their lands for massive rice plantation project backed by the G8
Dominion Farms accapare des terres au Nigeria
- ERA/FoEN | CEED
- 28 January 2015
Des agriculteurs de l'État de Taraba refusent de céder leurs terres à un énorme projet de riziculture soutenu par le G8
Equatorial Palm Oil secures $20.5m loan for joint venture
- StockMarketWire
- 27 January 2015
Equatorial Palm Oil has announced that its 50% owned joint venture company, Liberian Palm Developments, has entered into a $20.5m loan agreement.
Indonesia: We reject the palm oil companies because this is our home
- WALHI
- 27 January 2015
A new video from WALHI documents the views of villagers in Bengkulu Province, on the west coast of Sumatra, who are resisting the expansion of palm oil on their lands.
Press release on Bamba Village shooting incident
- ALLAT
- 27 January 2015
In wake of shooting and arrests, ALLAT calls for a moratorium on large scale land acquisitions in Sierra Leone.
The corporate takeover of Ukrainian agriculture
- IPS
- 27 January 2015
Frédéric Mousseau, Policy Director at the Oakland Institute, argues that the United States and the European Union are working hand in hand in a takeover of Ukrainian agriculture
Flower firm Karuturi goes under the gave
- The Daily Nation
- 26 January 2015
Naivasha-based flower farm Karuturi Ltd — the Kenyan subsidiary of the world’s biggest producer of cut roses — has been put on sale by receiver managers.
PKA's Principles for Responsible Investment in Farmland
- PKA
- 26 January 2015
Danish pension fund explains its approach to farmland investment in this report.
Canadian province eyes tougher rules on investor farm buys
- Reuters
- 26 January 2015
Saskatchewan is likely to tighten what are already some of North America's strictest rules for purchasing farmland as the Western Canadian province looks to fend off big money managers.
Can the FAO tenure guidelines stop land and water grabs?
- PLAAS
- 23 January 2015
Official implementation of the guidelines, via national governments, has started at a snail’s pace in only several countries, and monitoring systems are yet to be created.
Multi-country seminar discusses land and ocean grabbing issues in Africa
- FIAN
- 23 January 2015
From 12-16 January 2015, FIAN International took part in the launch meeting in Kampala (Uganda) of a multi-country research project focusing on bottom-up accountability in large-scale land acquisitions in Sub-Saharan Africa.