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Colombia: Ley de baldíos del Gobierno es una contrarreforma agraria, Iván Cepeda
- La FM
- 12 October 2014
El senador indicó que la iniciativa sólo beneficia a las empresas acumuladoras de baldíos adquiridos de manera ilegal.
El abogado argentino que aparece en firmas ligadas a Lázaro Báez y en el negocio de la extranjerización de tierras
- AIM
- 11 October 2014
Sin actividad fiscal en la Argentina, este profesional del estudio Integritas Trust figura en los registros societarios de una multinacional saudí que se reunió con Cristina Kirchner y luego adquirió 12 mil hectáreas, 24 horas antes de que el Congreso de la Nación sancionara la Ley de Tierras.
Twiga Farm - the story of a Kenyan Land grab
- Pambazuka
- 10 October 2014
The collusion of local, national and international money and power is more and more legalizing the disowning of people of their lands in the name of economic growth, development or investment.
Ivory Coast on quest to become West Africa's rice bowl
- Reuters
- 10 October 2014
The government has signed investment agreements with foreign companies including France's Louis Dreyfus Commodities, Algeria's Cevital, Export Trading Group of Singapore and Switzerland's Ameropa.
Sime unit makes RM5.6bil conditional general offer for NBPOL
- The Star
- 10 October 2014
The offer for New Britain Palm Oil Ltd would give Sime Darby over 140,000 ha of oil palm and sugar plantations in Papua New Guinea, as wells as 28,000 ha of lands on which to expand.
Industrie agroalimentaire : La Chine s’intéresse aux sites à vendre en Bretagne
- AgroMedia
- 09 October 2014
En Bretagne, des investisseurs Chinois s'intéressent de près aux sites industriels agroalimentaires qui attendent une nouvelle vie....
Colombia: Baldíos para los ricos
- Kaos en la Red
- 09 October 2014
Una nueva ley de titulación de tierras baldías desdibuja la naturaleza y la destinación de esas tierras. La agroindustria y los negocios de algunas poderosas familias colombianas están detrás de la nueva reglamentación. Reforma a la ley 160
Philippines: Local Palawaños stand strong against oil palm expansion
- Intercontinental Cry
- 09 October 2014
Oil palm development should never have been initiated in Palawan, the last ecological frontier of the Philippines
Westchester Group appoints Martin Davies to lead farmland investing programme in Europe
- propertyfundsworld
- 09 October 2014
Davies will be responsible for managing the European platform for Westchester, a TIAA-CREF majority-owned global agricultural asset manager, as well as building the firm’s direct farmland investment business in Europe.
Karuturi still going down
- TJN et al
- 09 October 2014
Karuturi Global Ltd, the Indian multinational that made its name in the global cut flower industry and recently acquired more than 300,000 ha in Ethiopia to produce food, is continuing its painful and massive decline.
Land grab complaint against ANZ filed with OECD
- Cambodia Daily
- 09 October 2014
NGOs have filed a new complaint against Australia’s ANZ Bank claiming it owes compensation to 681 Cambodian families who say their farms were illegally grabbed by a sugarcane plantation the bank helped to finance.
Chinese sugar plant participates to Madagascar's development
- Xinhua
- 09 October 2014
"China has a lot of things to share with Madagascar especially in the agricultural sector."