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Sierra Leone: Imprisonment for land rights activists
- Green Scenery
- 10 Mar 2016
Joseph Rahall interviews Hon. Shiaka Sama, who was released from prison on 24 February 2016 while 5 other activists are still behind bars
Gabon : Le Premier ministre reconnait l’intérêt de la présence du Groupe Olam dans le pays
- Infos Gabon
- 10 Mar 2016
Evalué à plus de 100 milliards de francs CFA, ce partenariat est destiné au financement de plusieurs projets agricoles, comme l’hévéaculture et la culture du palmier à huile et autres projets industriels.
New project to link farmers to agribusiness in Tanzania
- World Bank
- 10 Mar 2016
The World Bank's $70 million in new financing will be used to link smallholder farmers to agribusinesses in the Southern Agricultural Growth Corridor of Tanzania (SAGCOT).
Qatar's farmland investment Hassad Australia yet to make profit
- AFR
- 10 Mar 2016
Hassad Australia, the $469 million agricultural land company owned by Qatar's sovereign wealth fund, has delivered a $3.46 million loss and is yet to make a profit since beginning in Australia in 2010.
TIAA has not answered our report’s allegations
- Financial Times
- 09 Mar 2016
While we welcome the Financial Times' mention of our report on TIAA’s investments in Brazil, we are disappointed that the article quotes from an email by TIAA dismissing the allegations in our report as “inaccurate and without merit” without providing grounds for such claims.
TIAA partners give super funds $100b agricultural insight
- AFR
- 09 Mar 2016
The $US866 billion financial services giant TIAA expects there will be at least $US100 billion invested in timberland operations and agriculture across the world in the next 10 to 20 years
Concerns over a scramble for resources quiet for now, says World Bank
- Thomson Reuters Foundation
- 09 Mar 2016
Concerns over competing countries scrambling for resources such as farmland have decreased recently due to lower commodity and food prices, a World Bank official said.
100,000 hectares eyed for hybrid rice production
- Sun Star
- 08 Mar 2016
The agribusiness cluster of the Brunei Darussalam-Indonesia-Malaysia-Philippines East Asean Growth Area (BIMP-Eaga) is targeting a total of 100,000 hectares for expansion of hybrid rice production area in the sub-economic region.
Australian Rural Capital joins forces with Shanghai Pengxin Group for Kidman pastoral empire
- ABC
- 08 Mar 2016
An Australian investment company has joined forces with a leading Chinese bidder for the iconic Kidman pastoral empire.
Are China and Brazil transforming African agriculture?
- Zimbabweland
- 07 Mar 2016
A new Open Access Special Issue in World Development based on our work on the changing role of China and Brazil in Africa’s agriculture is now available
Denúncia da parceria entre a WWF e o Prosavana
- 07 Mar 2016
Nós, organizações da sociedade civil e movimentos sociais articulados na Campanha Não ao Prosavana, denunciamos o actual envolvimento da WWF no Prosavana.
Denúncia da parceria entre a WWF e o Prosavana
- Não ao Prosavana
- 07 Mar 2016
"Nós, organizações da sociedade civil e movimentos sociais articulados na Campanha Não ao Prosavana, denunciamos o actual envolvimento da WWF no Prosavana".
Denunciation of the partnership between WWF and ProSavana
- Não ao Prosavana
- 07 Mar 2016
International and Mozambican organisations and social movements allied in the No to ProSavana Campaign, denounce the current involvement of World Wildlife Fund in the ProSavana agribusiness programme.
We want our super fund to invest in S Kidman & Co: industry and retail members
- Financial Review
- 07 Mar 2016
Pressure is mounting on Australia's superannuation funds to invest in agricultural land as investors protest about the industry's decision not to try and buy Australia's largest landholder S Kidman & Co.
Denunciation of the partnership between WWF and ProSavana
- Não ao ProSavana
- 07 Mar 2016
We, organisations of civil society and social movements allied in the No to ProSavana Campaign, denounce the current involvement of World Wildlife Fund (WWF) in ProSavana.