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Americans are biggest investors in NZ dairy land
- Scoop
- 16 October 2015
United States investors were the largest investors in our dairy land during 2013-2014, analysis by KPMG has revealed.
#NoLandNoLife | World Hunger Day 2015: Hunger, poverty and repression killing rural communities
- PAN AP
- 16 October 2015
Marks the World Food Day, Asian Peasant Coalition (APC) exposing real situation facing farmers and other small food producers that resist against land and resource grabbing and struggle for genuine agrarian reform as the only way out of chronic poverty and hunger.
DekelOil: Contract to develop 10,000 hectares of brownfield land in Ghana
- LSE
- 15 October 2015
DekelOil Public Limited, operator and 51% owner of the vertically integrated Ayenouan palm oil project in Côte d'Ivoire, is pleased to announce that it has entered into a contract to develop 10,000 hectares of brownfield land in West Ghana.
American farmland titan eyes Canada
- Alberta Farmer
- 15 October 2015
One of America’s largest farm management and real estate brokerages has expanded into the Canadian Prairies — starting with Alberta.
Democratic Republic of Congo: “We need justice to be made"
- WRM
- 15 October 2015
Interview with Jean-François Mombia on the impacts of the oil palm plantations of the Canadian company, Feronia.
La trampa de la inversión responsable en tierras agrícolas
- GRAIN
- 15 October 2015
En todas partes, de los salones de los directorios de las corporaciones a las salas de reunión de Naciones Unidas, están surgiendo reglas acerca de cómo invertir “responsablemente” en tierras agrícolas.
#RuralWomenRiseUp: Groups to hold simultaneous actions to assert rights to land and resources
- PAN AP
- 15 October 2015
As the world marks the International Rural Women's Day, simultaneous activities organised by PAN Asia Pacific (PANAP) and rural women's groups from various countries to highlight the call for rural women to rise up and assert their rights to land and resources.
Massive land grabbing and plunder of resources kills peasant women and their communities, says APC
- APC
- 15 October 2015
Governments in Asia implements Public and Private Partnership (PPP) projects which worsened landlessness and directly impacts Asian agriculture. Statement by APC on the occasion of the International Rural Women’s Day.
Chinese PE firm AFC to invest up to $20m in startups, agriculture companies in Malaysia
- Deal Street Asia
- 14 October 2015
China private equity firm AFC Investments Ltd is planning to allocate between $10 million and $20 million for investment in start-ups as well as medium and large agro-related Malaysian companies, including in food processing and farming.
Saudi companies to launch agricultural projects in Northern State
- Sudan Vision
- 14 October 2015
Sudan’s National Investment Authority says it offered a Saudi delegation six agricultural projects in various states in north and east Sudan to carry out a food security plan.
Socially responsible farmland investment: a growing trap
- GRAIN
- 14 October 2015
Does it make sense to fight land grabbing by adopting rules on how to do it more responsibly?
Le piège de l’investissement agricole socialement responsable
- GRAIN
- 14 October 2015
Quel est l’intérêt de se battre contre l’accaparement des terres en adoptant des règles qui permettent de le faire de façon plus responsable ?
Polish farmers arrested defending farmland
- ICPPC
- 14 October 2015
Police arrest 11 farmers from Pyrzyce where 60% of farmland has already been sold off to foreign buyers. The farmers are accused of blocking tenders connected with the foreign sale of farming estates.
Chinese buy nation’s largest dairy, Van Diemen’s Land Company
- The Australian
- 13 October 2015
Herman Shao-ming Hu and Kenny Zhang are finalising the purchase of a majority interest in the 190-year-old Van Diemen’s Land Company (VDL) in Tasmania, Australia.
Conquête coloniale et concentration de terres
- Visionscarto
- 13 October 2015
Le moment est venu de remonter le fil de l’histoire en retraçant les différentes étapes qui ont conduit aux appropriations de terres dénoncées dans les médias depuis quelques années. À propos de ce phénomène, on utilise parfois le terme de « néocolonialisme ». Est-ce vraiment le cas ? Ce colonialisme est-il réellement nouveau ? Retour sur la genèse d’un processus en marche depuis plusieurs siècles.