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ANZ under fire for loans to controversial Cambodian sugar plantation
- Canberra Times
- 23 January 2014
ANZ is financing a Cambodian sugar plantation that has involved child labour, military-backed land grabs, forced evictions and food shortages.
L'Autriche proteste contre l' "expropriation" de ses agriculteurs en Hongrie
- Le Monde
- 22 January 2014
Une loi hongroise stipule que les contrats d'usufruit de terres agricoles conclus entre 1994 et 2001 seront annulés le 1er mai 2014. Plusieurs centaines d'agriculteurs autrichiens, allemands, italiens et néerlandais seraient concernés, pour plus de 200 000 hectares.
Lao farmers confront police over land grab
- RFA
- 22 January 2014
A citizen video shows a rare confrontation between authorities and villagers in Bokeo Province, Northern Laos, where villagers gathered to block construction workers from digging up their rice fields for a Chinese investor.
Farming it out
- Global Times
- 22 January 2014
Chinese entrepreneurs are going global ahead of officials. Countries with developed agriculture such as the US, Australia, Chile and Argentina have become their prime destinations.
Govt not recognizing scale of land-grabs in Burma: lawmakers
- The Irrawaddy
- 22 January 2014
“We’ve found that they [the government] does not want to give back land to the people because they know the land has a lot of value and will be good to sell in the future.”
Quand l’agrobusiness veut cultiver l’esprit de solidarité...
- Enquête+
- 22 January 2014
Instruit par les scandales liés à l’accaparement des terres arables, l’État sénégalais veut promouvoir une sorte de partenariat public-privé entre différents modes d’exploitations pour l’émergence d’une agriculture moderne et durable.
Communion of Churches in Indonesia calls for MIFEE to be stopped!
- awasMIFEE
- 21 January 2014
The Communion of Churches in Indonesia has asked the Indonesian Government to call a halt to the Merauke Integrated Food and Energy Estate project, because it will mean the indigenous Marind people’s local wisdom will be lost.
Ethiopia prepares 50,000 hct of land for horticulture dev’t
- EHPEA
- 20 January 2014
In order to meet the increasing flow of investment in the horticulture sector, the government has identified five corridors consisting of 50,000 hectares of land.
Palm before the storm
- New Scientist
- 20 January 2014
Oil palm cultivation has wrecked habitats in South-East Asia. We must avoid a rerun if the crop takes off in its native Africa
Golden Agri, APRIL under fresh scrutiny for unsustainable practices
- Eco-Business
- 20 January 2014
Communities face a “double whammy” in which High Carbon Stock areas restrict locals from cultivating the land while companies establish plantations outside of the zone where people are already farming.
Land grabbing: the real cost of buying cheap
- Deutsche Welle
- 20 January 2014
Millions of hectares of land in Africa, Asia and Latin America find their way into the hands of large-scale foreign investors each year. The victims of "land grabbing" are local villagers and farmers.
Uribismo propone restringir propiedad de tierra a firmas extranjeras
- El Tiempo
- 20 January 2014
Una de las propuestas que presentó el Centro Democrático en Colombia es la restricción de la propiedad de la tierra a las empresas extranjeras, aunque no definió el límite de apropiación.