The Sustainable Agriculture Fund, backed by Australia's biggest superannuation funds, has delivered a $4.7 million full year profit and recorded a small rise in the value of its rural property holdings
- Financial Review
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31 August 2015
Les litiges concernant les terres, dans les zones rurales ou urbaines sont-ils de plus en plus nombreux ? Quels sont les recours pour les citoyens qui s’estiment spoliés ?
Chinese conglomerate Shanghai Pengxin Group Co Ltd is set to become the largest farmland owner in Australia if it is successful in the acquisitions of two cattle farms for A$1 billion ($720 million).
- China Daily
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29 August 2015
Iran has launched agricultural cultivation in Kazakhstan, marking its first farmland investment overseas as the Middle Eastern country seeks to secure food supplies amid a lingering drought.
En la audiencia que formalizó la incorporación de la multinacional Benetton como querellante, se dio a conocer el fichaje de vecinos vinculados a la Asamblea del No a la Mina y de periodistas.
Iranian institute confirms that Ministry of Agriculture is responsible for overseas farm production programme
It is critical for farmers and advocates of land rights as well as the general public to understand how and why land grabbing is happening to make a more effective, strategic campaigning to address and stop it.
Activists tracking these deals say rich countries are buying up land—93 million acres—and displacing local people and wildlife.
Since 2007 there have been five reported legal cases in which the validity of Special Agriculture Business Leases (SABL) has been challenged through the Courts, all leases was declared null and void.
Japan's Mitsubishi Corporation has bought a 20 per cent stake in global-agri business Olam through two transactions as the companies launch a strategic partnership.
Sang-Liang Technology Development Centre and Nigeria's Raw Materials Research and Development Council will partner with the Niger state government for land provision for the pilot project.
- World Grain
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27 August 2015
A video discussing large scale land acquisitions in Zambia, and the risks they pose to those who derive their livelihoods from the land.
Réponse de Senhuile à l’invitation de Business & Human Rights Resource Centre relative au rapport sur l’accaparement de terre au Sénégal
China has confirmed the continuation of a $1.2 billion rubber and rice investment deal in Sierra Leone, covering 135,000 hectares, that was signed in 2012.
- Sierra Express
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26 August 2015
A leader of a group trying to seize a 1,400-rai oil palm plantation run by Thai Pattana Co, a joint operation of a foreign investor and his Thai business partner, was shot dead while leaving the farm on motorcycle.
- Bangkok Post
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25 August 2015