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UK MPs call for transparency on land deals to protect smallholder farmers
- Guardian
- 05 June 2013
Report urges full implementation of UN voluntary guidelines and urges DfID to support agricultural extension services
A “black eye to bogus CARP,” farmers say on MVP Group’s 30,000-hectare palm oil plantation in Davao
- KMP
- 05 June 2013
KMP says the 30,000 hectares of land to be leased to Honk Kong-based company “spells land-grabbing” to Davao Oriental farmers.
Les paysan-ne-s se lèvent contre Bolloré en Afrique de l'ouest
- ReAct
- 05 June 2013
Dans quatre pays d’Afrique, les riverains des plantations contrôlées par le groupe Bolloré organisent des actions simultanées ce mercredi 5 juin 2013, jour de l’AG de ses actionnaires. A Paris, des ressortissants des pays concernés vont porter les revendications aux dirigeants du groupe.
West African farmers stand up against Bolloré
- ReAct
- 05 June 2013
Farmers in four African countries, whose land, lives and livelihoods have been disrupted by the expansion of plantations under the control of the Bolloré group, are organising coordinated actions at the group's general shareholders’ meeting.
African farmers fear large food production programme of Japan
- TBS
- 04 June 2013
TBS News visits Mozambique to look into why farmers are opposed to Japan's agricultural development programme with Brazil.
Land grabs across developing world must be stopped
- Irish Examiner
- 04 June 2013
The scale and pace of the large scale acquisition of land — or land grabbing — in the developing world in the last decade is unprecedented and is having disastrous consequences for the world’s poor.
Perú: 10% de las tierras de la costa en manos extranjeras
- CEPES Rural
- 04 June 2013
Actualmente, la Costa peruana contaría con 863 mil hectáreas de tierras de cultivo. De esta superficie, cerca del 10% tendría algún grado de participación de inversionistas extranjeros. Solo Odebrecht y Maple controlan el 3%.
Japón también quiere la riqueza africana
- IPS
- 04 June 2013
Augusto Mafigo, agricultor y sindicalista de Mozambique, dijo que los campesinos redoblaron sus protestas contra ProSabana porque temen que les haga perder sus pequeñas porciones de tierra cultivable cuando las compañías extranjeras se instalen.
Los Grobo venden empresa en Brasil para invertir en Argentina
- Terra
- 04 June 2013
Vendió su participación en una empresa en Brasil a la japonesa Mitsubishi Corporation.
Smithfield Foods – Shuanghui International: The biggest Chinese acquisition that isn't
- Caijing
- 03 June 2013
A Chinese company isn’t buying Smithfield. A shell company based in Cayman Islands is. Instead of a story about “China buying up the world”, this turns out to be a story of a precarious leveraged buyout deal by some large global private equity firms looking to borrow their way to a fortune.
Concern mounts over agriculture development plan in Mozambique
- Kyodo
- 03 June 2013
Concerns mount among civil society groups that an agriculture project in Mozambique, which Tokyo is pushing through as one of its key projects in Africa, may end up depriving local farmers of their land.
At TICAD, clumsy diplomacy mars controversial Japanese aid project in Mozambique
- Japan Today
- 03 June 2013
Mozambican Minister suggests "illiterate" farmers were not behind letter to President denouncing trilateral agribusiness project backed by Japan and Brazil.