• Chinese firm’s investment in banana farm approved
    • Khmer Times
    • 09 August 2018

    Cambodian government yesterday gave green light to a Chinese-owned firm, Longmate Agriculture Co Ltd, to invest in a banana plantation in Kampot province. Three plantatios cover 5,000 hectares of land that can produce up to 14,000 tonnes of bananas according to Cambodia General Director of Agriculture.

  • Government should clarify land acquisition and compensation
    • Modern Ghana
    • 08 August 2018

    Deputy Director of Korea Rural Community Corporation on Tuesday urged government of Ghana to clarify land acquisition and compensation issues in the country and to provide guarantee for investors through increased participation in the agricultural value chain.

  • Le label «huile de palme durable» est-il sur une mauvaise pente?
    • swissinfo
    • 08 August 2018

    La récente confrontation entre le géant suisse de l’industrie alimentaire Nestlé et la Table ronde sur l’huile de palme durable (RSPO) met en lumière un fossé croissant autour de la certification.

  • German Agri Terra Group offers investments in Paraguayan agriculture
    • Fresh Plaza
    • 08 August 2018

    Hundreds of clients have used the services of the German company in order to participate in projects such as cattle breeding, orange plantations or vegetable production in greenhouses in Paraguay

  • Indigenous community in the Peruvian Amazon calls for support to defend forests
    • The Ecologist
    • 07 August 2018

    The palm oil industry is causing severe environmental destruction and spiralling violence in the Peruvian Amazon. Investigations of local actions sets out ways in which you can offer support and solidarity.

  • Terra de todos, terra de alguns
    • Divergente
    • 06 August 2018

    Webdocumentário | Como os camponeses do Norte de Moçambique têm resistido à chegada das grandes empresas de agricultura

  • APEC warned PNG has poor record on food security
    • ActNow PNG
    • 06 August 2018

    Community advocacy group ACT NOW! warns APEC delegates attending food Security Week in Port Moresby that Papua New Guinea government has a very poor record on protecting rural famers. The most glaring example is the SABL land grab, in which over 5 million hectares of land was taken from rural communities.

  • Tanzania's indigenous communities racing to secure land eyed by investors
    • InDepth News
    • 05 August 2018

    Tanzania has attracted huge interest as a destination for large-scale agricultural investment due to sufficient land and cheap labour. As traditional laws that once protected village land weaken, indigenous communities and farmers have repeatedly lost chunks of land facilitated by foreign investors.

  • Argentina: Piden aclarar sobre venta de tierras al Emir de Qatar
    • ADN Río Negro
    • 04 August 2018

    El Registro de Propiedad Inmueble de la Provincia de Río Negro tiene un plazo de 10 días para informar sobre la veracidad o no de la adquisición de 28.000 hectáreas en la zona cordillerana de la provincia por parte del Emir de Qatar, Hamad bin Jalifa Al Thani.

  • Land-resource sell-out: Companies becoming more powerful than countries
    • LankaWeb
    • 04 August 2018

    An overview of land grabbing in Africa and Asia as lessons for Sri Lanka. In September 2016 the International Criminal Court called land grabs as a crime against humanity and this is an area that Sri Lanka’s lawyers are advised to further look into.

  • Myanmar allows up to 80% of foreign investment in agriculture sector
    • Eleven Myanmar
    • 03 August 2018

    Myanmar Investment Commission (MIC) have allowed Foreign businesses to invest up to 80 percent in Myanmar's agriculture sector instead of 49 percent.

  • Sokotra Capital buys Tunisian fish-farm business
    • Bloomberg
    • 03 August 2018

    Sokotra Capital, a Dubai firm set up by former UBS Group AG banker Albert Momdjian, led a consortium of investors in acquiring fish-farm L’Aquaculture Tunisienne for an undisclosed amount.

  • Agriculture : Les Chinois dans la banane à Kampot
    • Cambodge Mag
    • 03 August 2018

    Longmate Agricuture Co., Ltd. une coentreprise d’investisseurs cambodgiens et chinois, a annoncé avoir investi 32 millions de dollars pour la culture de bananes sur 1000 hectares de terres dans le district de Chhouk à Kampot.

  • Argentina: Condenaron a los asesinos de Solano, pero los ideólogos siguen libres
    • El Tribuno
    • 02 August 2018

    Los abogados sostienen y fundamentan que Daniel Solano fue asesinado por reclamar mejoras laborales y protestar por una estafa en el pago de los jornales que le habían prometido a él y a sus compañeros la empresa, ya extinta, Agrocosecha, que era una subsidiaria de la firma internacional Expofrut.

  • Se tramita en el Congreso de Colombia la Contrarreforma Agraria del Siglo XXI. La tierra pa’ los empresarios
    • Palabras al Margen
    • 01 August 2018

    El nuevo Congreso de la República se estrena en funciones con el proyecto de ley de tierras o reforma a la Ley 160 de 1994, que resume la intención de los poderosos dueños de la tierra en Colombia de impedir su democratización y frenar la modernización y la productividad del campo.

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