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Chinese investment in Australian macadamia farms on the rise, as demand for native nut soars
- ABC
- 20 January 2016
Chinese investors are buying up macadamia orchards in Queensland and New South Wales to protect their own supply
P1.3 B ready for investment in Maguindanao
- Philstar
- 20 January 2016
The Gintong Ani Corporation of Singapore aims to initially put up a 5,000-hectare oil palm plantation in Datu Odin Sinsuat town in Maguindanao.
Protecting community lands & resources in Africa: Grassroots advocates’ strategies & lessons
- Namati
- 20 January 2016
Book provides a variety of ingenious, creative, and practical strategies for proactively confronting the forces that undermine community land and natural resource tenure security in Africa.
Prosavana em discussão no seio das organizações da sociedade civil em Nampula
- JA!
- 19 January 2016
Diante desta situação, a JA! reafirma a sua dedicação à Campanha Não ao ProSavana em defesa dos direitos das comunidades locais e do ambiente.
In Ethiopia, anger over corruption and farmland development runs deep
- Guardian
- 19 January 2016
The property of a Dutch agricultural company, Solagrow, was torched by hundreds of people, angered by the company having fenced off 100 hectares of prime communal grazing land, leased by the government.
One of Africa’s most promising economies is facing a fundamental problem
- Business Insider
- 19 January 2016
Like Karuturi’s disappeared $100 million farm investment, the Addis Ababa expansion plan embodies the perils and contradictions of the Ethiopian regime’s strategy of securing internal calm through economic growth and strong ties with foreign powers.
TIAA-CREF responds to allegations of Brazilian land grabbing
- The Takeaway
- 18 January 2016
One of the largest pension investors in the United States, TIAA-CREF, is facing accusations that its investments in Brazilian farmland are not socially responsible, or even illegal.
Saudi Arabia buying up farmland in Southwestern U.S.
- Digital Journal
- 18 January 2016
In what looks to be a prelude to the "water wars," Saudi Arabia has been buying up farmland in the southwestern part of the U.S. to grow alfalfa hay that is then shipped back to Saudi Arabia to feed its dairy cattle because it doesn't have enough water.
Bindaree to open $60m China processing facility
- Farm Weekly
- 18 January 2016
Northern NSW premium meat exporter Bindaree Beef set up a 10,000 square metre cutting-edge facility in QingDao, North Eastern China, aimed at value-adding Australian beef, is due to be finished by the end of 2016.
Sénégal : Massimo Vittorio Campadese, nouveau directeur général de la Senhuile.
- Ndar Info
- 17 January 2016
Après le limogeage de Benjamin Dummai et la nomination de Massimo Castelluci à la tête de la société Senhule SA, Castelluci est parti et c'est Massimo Vittorio Campadese qui vient d’être nommé nouveau directeur général.
Análise preliminar dos documentos primários da JICA sobre os contratos da JICA com os consultores para “estratégia de comunicação” e os relatórios dos consultores Japoneses do PD
- No! landgrab-Japan
- 17 January 2016
Análise pela sociedade civil Japonesa sobre os documentos da JICA em relação ao ProSAVANA (versão revista)
The investment case for ecological farming
- SLM Partners
- 17 January 2016
This paper for institutional investors, family offices and investment managers explains why ecological and regenerative farming systems provide an attractive investment opportunity.
Massimo Vittorio Campadese, nouveau directeur général de la SENHUILE.
- Ndar Info
- 17 January 2016
Gora Seck reste le président du conseil d’administration de la société, Giovanni Mazzotti, maintenu responsable de la production et Coudy Sy Diallo, responsable du département Environnement et développement durable.
Contre l'accaparement des terres: soutenir les petits producteurs
- Cath.ch
- 15 January 2016
Pour lutter contre l’accaparement des terres, il faut soutenir les petits producteurs. C’est la principale conclusion qui est ressortie d’une table ronde organisée le 14 janvier à Berne.
Corporations should listen to Leonardo DiCaprio on indigenous land rights
- Quartz
- 15 January 2016
Access to traditional land remains fundamental to the well-being of indigenous groups. But in the last decade, national governments have sold over 81 million acres of land—much of it indigenous—to foreign investors without the permission of those inhabiting the land.