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Draft plantations bill on foreign ownership limit hits presidential hurdle
- Reuters
- 08 September 2014
Indonesia's outgoing president is against a draft bill that would retroactively limit foreign ownership of plantations to no more than 30 percent.
FIAN publie un étude sur l'accès à la terre en Belgique et en Europe
- FIAN
- 08 September 2014
FIAN Belgium, en partenariat avec la FUGEA, le MAP, Terre-en-vue et Terre de Liens, publie une étude qui s’intéresse à la pression foncière exercée actuellement en Europe qui menace l’avenir de notre agriculture.
¿Qué es el acaparamiento de océanos?
- El Ciudadano
- 07 September 2014
El término ‛acaparamiento de océanos’ pretende arrojar nueva luz sobre una serie de importantes procesos y dinámicas que están afectando negativamente a las personas y comunidades cuya forma de vida, identidad cultural y medios de vida dependen de su participación en la pesca en pequeña escala.
¿Por qué en Paraguay Cartes no habla de acaparamiento?
- El País
- 05 September 2014
Curuguaty es el centro de la campaña contra el acaparamiento de tierra que pretende contar al mundo la historia de Paraguay a través de un caso paradigmático de lucha campesina.
Olam’s rice nucleus program
- World Grain
- 04 September 2014
The commercial farm currently has 3,000 hectares under cultivation and another 3,000 hectares will be developed in 2015, while 3,000 farmers are involved in its outgrower programme.
Cameroon to develop 800 additional hectares of bananas
- blackseagrain.net
- 04 September 2014
A new 800 ha banana plantation is planned in Dehaene in the South region by a subsidiary of France's Compagnie Fruitière.
Edo, 16 investors sign MoU to develop agribusiness
- Business Day
- 04 September 2014
500,000 hectares of new farmlands has so far been identified across the Nigerian state to be allocated to the investors to develop the sector.
Lufthansa helps establish $600m biofuel fund
- PEI
- 04 September 2014
German airline Lufthansa in talks with several investment firms about taking on management of a private equity fund that will invest into farmland in Cameroon and Eastern Europe to grow oil crops.
Agri-business fund seeks $250 mln for neglected market; Washington, Maine pensions on board
- PE Hub
- 04 September 2014
Taking aim at one of the less-traveled areas of private equity, Agriculture Capital Management is targeting $250 million for a debut fund called ACM Permanent Crops.
Forests in Mozambique face extinction
- WRM
- 04 September 2014
The ProSavana agriculture programme is causing environmental degradation and the near extinction of indigenous communities in the savannah regions of northern Mozambique.
Paraguay: Intervienen desmonte realizado por productor brasilero
- E'a
- 04 September 2014
En Villa Ygatimi, Canindejú, realizaron desmontes de área boscosa nativa por medio de la quema.
Mali: protestation contre l'accaparement des terres
- RFI
- 03 September 2014
Au Mali, une grande marche était prévue mardi pour protester contre l’accaparement des terres mais au dernier moment, les autorités ont décidé de l’interdire. RFI était sur place.