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Tunisia wants agribusiness partnerships with Brazil
- ANBA
- 24 February 2015
Tunisia is interested in partnering up with Brazil for agribusiness, according to the CEO of the Arab country’s Agency for Agricultural Investment Promotion.
World Bank dam and foreign land-grab force out Ethiopian tribes
- Digital Journal
- 24 February 2015
World Bank and China join Ethiopia's government to relocate 200,000 villagers of the Omo River and Lake Turkana Valley to replace them with super-irrigation plantations.
Inquiets de leur sort : les travailleurs de Senhuile demandent l’arbitrage du président Sall !
- Africa9
- 23 February 2015
Le directeur général de Senhuile, Massimo Castellussi, pourrait être interpellé dans les tout prochains jours, par les autorités compétentes du pays, informe une source en provenance de la présidence.
ONG GRAIN insiste nas acusações à AgroMoz por usurpação de terras em Moçambique
- OJE
- 23 February 2015
A organização ambientalista não governamental GRAIN reiterou hoje as acusações de usurpação de terras feitas à AgroMoz em Moçambique, depois de a empresa ter rejeitado as acusações iniciais de um relatório sobre este tema.
Dealing in Africa with land issues in a human rights perspective
- FIAN
- 23 February 2015
A new booklet provides information and guidance on how to defend land rights, monitor land policies and violations, advocate, campaign and seek redress for land-related violations.
Chimps' survival of little concern to agribusiness
- Greenpeace
- 23 February 2015
Homes of chimpanzees destroyed by agribusiness companies – many foreign-owned – who are clearing vast tracts of rainforest throughout west and central Africa to make way for plantations producing palm oil, rubber and other commodities.
Fiji: $10m investment for rice industry
- Fiji Times
- 23 February 2015
Korean rice company, Grace Road Company Ltd, in Navua is looking at investing $10 million in the revitalisation of the rice industry in the country and in expanding its farm.
Somalis need to learn lessons from the legacy of land grabbing in Africa
- Mareeg
- 23 February 2015
Somalia’s farmland similar to its neighbouring countries is in danger of falling into the hands of transnational companies often in partnership with governments sometimes supported by the local elites.
Nestlé: Shedding a light and engaging on land rights
- Reuters
- 23 February 2015
The newly created International Land and Forest Tenure Facility, funded by Sweden, will start pilot initiatives to reform land tenure in developing countries.
Cambodian land conflicts surge
- The Diplomat
- 21 February 2015
In a statement released Thursday, The Cambodian League for the Promotion and Defense of Human Rights (Licadho) said it had registered 10,625 families newly affected by land conflicts in 2014, more than three times the number of families documented in 2013.
Nourrir l'humanité
- RFI
- 20 February 2015
Malgré l'accaparement des terres ou la production d'agrocarburants au détriment des aliments, les solutions existent pour que tous mangent à leur faim
Climat : l’agriculture doit être au coeur des négociations
- Secours Catholique
- 20 February 2015
Les fausses solutions contre le changement climatique provoquent une importante pression foncière et un accaparement des terres, explique Jean Vettraino