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The Report: Algeria 2011
- Oxford Business Group
- 21 December 2012
Making credit easier to obtain for many farmers and possibly opening up agriculture to foreign investment are two of the latest moves designed to develop the sector in Algeria
¿Quién es quién? Calyx Agro: la compañía de Louis Dreyfus para el farming y real estate
- Infocampo
- 21 December 2012
La companía fue fundada en 2007 con el objeto de canalizar fondos para la compra y desarrollo de campos en la Argentina, Brasil, Paraguay y Uruguay, la producción agropecuaria y la comercialización de sus productos.
The impact of MIFEE presence at Bian River and Maro River, West Papua
- Tabloidjubi.com
- 21 December 2012
Report from Indigenous Peoples Organization of Bian Enim
Fighting to save Africa's richest rainforest
- IPS
- 20 December 2012
Nasako Besingi, director of environmental NGO Struggle to Economize the Future, says protests against a controversial palm oil plantation in the Korup National Park, southwest Cameroon will continue despite arrests and intimidation.
Rogue palm oil firm ordered to stop clearing in Muara Tae
- EIA
- 20 December 2012
he Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) has upheld a complaint lodged by the London-based Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) against a rogue palm oil company and has ordered it to immediately stop clearing customary forests in Indonesian Borneo.
Andris Piebalgs, Commissioner for Development at the European Union
- This is Africa
- 20 December 2012
"Large scale agriculture investment requires a lot of transparency and legal certainty, and that is what is lacking most of the time," he says. "We have seen that large-scale investment coming - I'm not saying that it is wrong, but it should be very clearly covered by countries' legislation.
Curbing Tanzania's 'Land Grabbing Race'
- Tanzania Daily News
- 20 December 2012
From next month (January 2013), Tanzania will start restricting the size of land that single large-scale foreign and local investors can "lease" for agricultural use.
Demand for Sask. farm land raises concerns about foreign investors
- Star Phoenix
- 20 December 2012
The Farm Land Security Board of the Canadian province of Saskatchewan has now hired an investigator with some "special skills" and experience to look into illegal farm sales to foreign investors.
L'agroalimentaire au coeur d'une visite française à Dakar
- Jeune Afrique
- 20 December 2012
Autre thème sensible, l'accaparement des terres. « Je suis contre, bien entendu, et j'en toucherai deux mots sur place », assure Guillaume Garot, alors que des entreprises françaises sont aujourd'hui à l'oeuvre sur le continent, notamment pour la production de biocarburants.
Manulife AM steps up sales effort in Japan
- Asian Investor
- 20 December 2012
The fund house aims to capitalise on Japanese pension plans' growing interest in new investment types, including Asian fixed income and certain alternatives like farmland
Bénin : Djidja
- CCFD
- 20 December 2012
Ce document est le résultat d’une étude réalisée au Bénin, et plus particulièrement dans dans la commune de Djidja, par Synergie Paysanne en partenariat avec le CCFD-Terre Solidaire.
« Les Dessous de la mondialisation : Terre à prendre en Ethiopie »
- Nouvel Observateur
- 20 December 2012
Documentaire sur Public Sénat