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Water scarcity, public protest slow foreign farmland purchases
- Circle of Blue
- 24 June 2016
New GRAIN study finds changed conditions in international “land grabs.”
How far have we got since the great land rights debates five years ago?
- Landportal.info
- 24 June 2016
Duncan Pruett reflects on the last 5 years at work advocating on the issues of land rights and foreign investments in agriculture.
Food is getting so expensive in India that it now wants to farm in Africa and Myanmar
- Quartz
- 23 June 2016
India, one of the world’s largest consumers and importers of pulses, may soon take over agricultural land in Africa and Myanmar to meet growing demand in its domestic market.
Policy uncertainty holding back investment in agriculture
- howwemadeitinafrica.com
- 23 June 2016
Grow Africa executive director William Asiko dismisses concerns about large-scale land grabbing in Ethiopia as "perceptions".
“Feed Africa” – AfDB develops strategy for Africa’s agricultural transformation
- AfDB
- 23 June 2016
The Bank will itself invest US $24 billion and leverage additional investments through equity, quasi equity, debt and risk instruments to catalyze investments at scale from the private sector and with co-financing from traditional donors and new players.
People’s manual on the Guidelines on Governance of Land, Fisheries and Forests
- IPC
- 23 June 2016
The People’s Manual is a pedagogical and didactic guide, which aims to make it easier to understand the Guidelines and to provide a practical approach to people on how to use them in their struggles.
Matopiba: Killing the Cerrado and its people
- 23 June 2016
Final report from the III Assembly of Indigenous Peoples of Goias and Tocantins, Brazil, 20-23 June 2016
Brasil: Matopiba é morte, queremos a vida
- CIMI
- 23 June 2016
“Nós não vamos deixar o Matopiba passar”, exclamou a liderança Krahô, Gercília
Cameroun - Accaparement des terres: Des paysans réclament toujours 20 000 hectares de terre à la SOCAPALM
- Cameroon-Info.net
- 23 June 2016
Les riverains des plantations de la Société Camerounaise de Palmeraies (SOCAPALM) ont repris leur mouvement d’humeur accusant celle-ci d’accaparement des terres.
Families evicted by sugarcane farms appeal in Phnom Penh
- Cambodia Daily
- 22 June 2016
Villagers representing more than 1,000 families that accuse sugarcane plantations around the country of stealing their land gathered in Phnom Penh on Tuesday to once again call on the government to help.
The sugar industry has been catastrophic for Cambodia's poor, so why are companies being honoured?
- Reuters
- 22 June 2016
In Cambodia, more than 15,000 people have been forcibly evicted to make way for sugar cane plantations.
Ninety per cent of Aussies oppose foreign farm sales
- New Daily
- 22 June 2016
A new poll by the Lowy Institute found 87 per cent of respondents opposed allowing foreign companies to buy Australian agricultural land — six percentage points higher than a similar survey four years ago.
Malawi moves from a consuming and importing to a producing economy – Mutharika
- MANA
- 22 June 2016
Malawi government tells Chinese investors it is halfway through a process to identify 10,000 estates lying idle that can be opened up for commercial farming.
Ag sector investment prospects 'highly positive'
- Agrimoney
- 22 June 2016
"Money is still being pumped into the sector almost regardless of geography," says director of Primer International.
Chinese firm gets more time to sell stake
- Xinhua
- 21 June 2016
Australia has granted a three-year extension for a Chinese company to reduce its 80 percent stake in Australian cotton farm Cubbie Station after it indicated it could not meet the October 2015 deadline.