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Chinese investors look into agriculture potential
- Fiji Times
- 18 May 2016
The Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Qingdao in China is looking into Fiji's agriculture sector as a potential area of investment.
Saravan approves concession for custard apple plantation
- Vientiane Times
- 18 May 2016
Saravan provincial authorities in Laos approve a 200 ha land concession to a Korean company which will grow custard apple and moringa for export
Thomson Reuters Foundation launches Place to put land and property rights on global news agenda
- Reuters
- 17 May 2016
Thomson Reuters Foundation today launched Place (Property, Land, Access, Connections, Empowerment), an innovative platform to boost coverage of land and property rights, one of the most under-reported issues worldwide.
La Fondation Thomson Reuters lance la première plateforme d'information mondiale sur les droits fonciers
- Commodafrica
- 17 May 2016
La Fondation Thomson Reuters, en collaboration avec Omidyar Network, a lancé hier PLACE, une plateforme pour couvrir les droits fonciers
Le réchauffement climatique menace la sécurité alimentaire du Mali
- Mondafrique
- 16 May 2016
le Mali est fragilisé par les conséquences ravageuses du changement climatique et de l'accaparement des terres. Mondafrique publie le témoignage d'Ousmane Barké Diallo, éleveur malien.
Mali : Front social : La révolte de la Cstm
- L'Aurore
- 16 May 2016
Les syndicats affiliés à la Cstm ont investi la rue de Bamako pour condamner l’immobilisme du gouvernement face aux problèmes des masses laborieuses, y compris l’accaparement des terres et l’expropriation des paysans
Interdire l'achat de terres agricoles par des multinationales ?
- SudRadio
- 16 May 2016
Entretien avec Guillaume Darrouy du Centre National des Jeunes Agriculteurs (France)
Australia's $1 billion beef boom funded by foreign investment and super
- AFR
- 16 May 2016
Australia's cattle station sector is set to reach more than $1 billion-worth of deals in less than a year, with the two biggest sources of investment being the controversial areas of foreign investment and superannuation.
Dry weather forces BrasilAgro to slash corn sowings
- Agrimoney
- 16 May 2016
Land prices are up across Brazil, with prices in the Northeast up 7.5% over the past 12 month, BrasilAgro said.
Why Chinese agriculture engagement in Africa is not what it seems
- China File
- 16 May 2016
Based on new research in four African countries, Professor Ian Scoones says far from being on a land-grabbing spree in Africa, Chinese immigrant farmers and the deployment of Chinese agricultural technology and training programmes are having a positive impact.
#NoLandNoLife | Indonesia: PANAP conveys solidarity with Kampung Dadap’s struggle for land and livelihood
- PANAP
- 16 May 2016
We convey our firm solidarity with the people of Kampung Dadap in their struggle against the “PT Tangerang International City” (TIC) – a government backed massive reclamation project in Kampung Dadap, Tangerang Regency in Indonesia, and express our serious concern on the repression reportedly being committed against them.
À São Tomé, Agripalma marche sur des œufs
- Jeune Afrique
- 13 May 2016
Dans le sud-ouest de l’île de São Tomé, la co-entreprise entre l’État santoméen et le groupe luxembourgeois Socfin ressuscite la culture du palmier à l’huile.
France : Lettre ouverte au Ministère de lAgriculture
- Confédération Paysanne (Indre)
- 13 May 2016
Lettre ouverte de la la Confédération paysanne 36 concernant l'acquisition de plus de 1 700 ha de terres agricoles dans l'Indre par des entrepreneurs chinois
Nuevas maniobras de poderosos acumuladores de baldíos
- Las 2 Orillas
- 13 May 2016
El exrepresentante Wilson Arias denuncia una nueva modalidad de empresas que se aprovechan de tierras campesinas.
Next steps to strengthen global land governance
- The Conversation
- 13 May 2016
Many see the voluntary guidelines as an important opportunity to address wider issues of land inequality, historical dispossession and agrarian change, rather than simply as a route to “responsible investment”