• Government adopts land policy in South Sudan
    • Sudan Tribune
    • 24 February 2013

    Land grabbing, which is the acquisition of land without regard for the interests of existing land rights holders, and disagreements regarding boundaries between counties and payams (districts) will also be addressed by the policy.

  • Uruguay: MPP defendió tributo contra extranjerización de la tierra y criticó a la derecha conservadora
    • Unoticias
    • 24 February 2013

    Luego de la reunión de la Dirección Nacional, el sector de izquierda expresó que “es imprescindible la creación de herramientas tributarias para contrarrestar” a los productores extranjeros.

  • Wilmar buys 53.7% stake in Noble’s Indonesia palm venture
    • Today Online
    • 23 February 2013

    Wilmar International has taken a majority stake in a palm plantation venture in Indonesia’s Papua owned by Noble Group, giving the world’s biggest palm oil supplier a toehold in the province where it also hopes to grow sugar cane.

  • Berkshire finally takes a stake in Archer Daniels Midland
    • Seeking Alpha
    • 22 February 2013

    Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway has initiated a position in Archer Daniels Midland when it is anticipated that companies like ADM and Bunge will seek out targeted acquisitions of global farmland in order to both expand and diversify operations

  • Le palmier à huile menace désormais le bassin du Congo
    • Journal de l'Environnement
    • 22 February 2013

    Dans un rapport récent, Rainforest Foundation UK dénonce le développement massif en cours des plantations de palmier à huile dans les 6 pays du bassin du Congo.

  • Land grabbing looms: New palm oil plantation threatens Cameroon's rainforest
    • Huffington Post
    • 22 February 2013

    "We will continue to speak out against what can only be considered land grabbing, because the proposed location of Herakles Farms plantation is in the midst of a rainforest that sustains my local community and our unique wildlife."

  • Patient for profits
    • World Magazine
    • 22 February 2013

    US-based Aslan Global Management, a leader in the "patient capital" movement, manages more than 12,000 hectares of farmland in Ukraine and Mozambique on long-term lease and just entered into a 99-year lease for 45,000 hectares in Tanzania.

  • Mozambican farmers fear foreign land grabs
    • IPS
    • 22 February 2013

    “In the very short term land will became scarcest for Mozambicans because the government is attracting foreign investors arguing that we have huge unused land“, a spokesperson for UNAC told IPS. “What happens, in fact, when investors come, their appetite is centered on land already being used by locals.”

  • Palm oil expansion threatens Congo Basin forests - report
    • AlertNet
    • 21 February 2013

    Industrial cultivation of oil palm has "wreaked havoc" on rainforests and forest peoples in Southeast Asia and now threatens to do the same in the Congo Basin, a report from the Rainforest Foundation UK warns

  • La Espera
    • La Diaria
    • 21 February 2013

    Avanza en la región la compra de tierras por parte de empresas; en Uruguay, anteproyectos para frenar extranjerización están en la órbita del Poder Ejecutivo.

  • Georgia farms face Indian 'invasion'
    • Al Jazeera
    • 21 February 2013

    Thousands of Punjabi farmers have bought land in distant Georgia lured by cheap prices, angering some locals.

  • Les actualités foncières ouest-africaines. Bulletin n°86
    • Commission de l'UEMOA / Hub Rural
    • 21 February 2013

    Le dernier bulletin d'information de la Commission de l'UEMOA et du Hub Rural sur les actualités foncières ouest-africaines vient de sortir

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