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PNG: Govt to outlaw 'scam' land leases
- The National
- 28 May 2014
Special agriculture business leases are nothing but a “scam” used by logging companies and will be outlawed immediately, Prime Minister Peter O’Neill says.
Corporate stranglehold of farmland a risk to world food security, study says
- Guardian
- 28 May 2014
Small farmers grow 70% of world's food but the land which they control is shrinking as mega-farms squeeze them onto less than 25% of the world's available farmland, says new analysis by GRAIN
Honduras : Des organisations internationales demandent de mettre fin aux expulsions et à la violence dans le Bas Aguán
- 28 May 2014
Le 21 mai dernier un contingent de 315 membres de l’armée et de la police ainsi que 40 agents de sécurité privée ont participé à l’expulsion violente des exploitations rurales Trinidad et El Despertar
Farmland meets finance: Is land the new economic bubble?
- Food First
- 27 May 2014
This report identifies broad trends in farmland investing with the potential to affect countries in the Global North and Global South
Liberia: UK company risks closure
- New Democrat
- 27 May 2014
Equatorial Palm Oil Ltd risks closure as member of Grand Bassa County legislative caucus lobbies to ensure that the operations of the company be halted due to allegations of land grabs.
Global agriculture on verge of investment gold rush
- Weekly Times
- 27 May 2014
"The institutional ‘herd’ will eventually find agricultural investment,' delegates told at the Global AgInvesting Conference in New York.
Mauritius' Omnicane to invest $250 million into Ghana's sugar plantations
- Africa Report
- 27 May 2014
A Mauritius sugarcane firm Omnicane is set to invest $250 million into sugarcane plantations in northern Ghana
US investors, government policies leading global land-grabs
- Mintpress News
- 27 May 2014
The US public and private sectors are among the leading drivers of a global drive to snap up usable – and often in-use – agricultural land, in what critics say remains a steadily increasing epidemic of “land-grabbing.”
Herakles Farms: Champions of illegal deforestation
- Greenpeace
- 27 May 2014
Greenpeace report reveals how US-based Herakles Farms colluded with government officials in Cameroon to illegally export timber that itself was illegally felled in order to establish a palm oil plantation.
A coup for corpate capital
- TNI
- 27 May 2014
Global corporations are increasingly influencing development policy, resulting in partnership agreements like the New Alliance for Food and Nutrition Security that grow corporate profits while endangering the livelihoods of small-scale farmers.
L’Ethiopie consacre 3 millions d’hectares pour l’industrie textile
- Financial Afrik
- 26 May 2014
L’indien Shri Vallabh Pittie et les américains VF et Phillips Van Heusen viennent de boucler une tournée en Ethiopie où le président a réaffirmé son engagement à mettre à disposition 3m d’ha pour la culture du coton
Is your bank financing deforestation?
- EurActive
- 26 May 2014
Opening a bank account may seem like a trivial thing to do for most consumers. But such decisions may have consequences for deforestation and human rights abuses in the developing world, writes Anne van Schaik.