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Robb defends foreign investment
- The Land
- 29 October 2014
Australia's Trade Minister Andrew Robb has engaged in a fiery exchange with controversial radio broadcaster Alan Jones over foreign investment in agriculture.
Investigating Herakles Farms in Ghana: AFJN’s Report
- AFJN
- 29 October 2014
This story from Ghana’s Volta Region is a warning to landowners in Africa and irresponsible African leaders who are carelessly mortgaging future generations’ inheritance during this global rush for land in Africa.
New report analyzes 73,000 mining, oil & gas, logging, and agriculture developments; most involve land that is inhabited
- RRI
- 29 October 2014
In an analysis of almost 73,000 concessions in eight tropical forested countries, more than 93 percent of these developments were found to involve land inhabited by Indigenous Peoples and local communities.
Millions of hectares of African land ‘grabbed’
- The Citizen
- 29 October 2014
Over 55 million hectares of land in Africa have been “grabbed” since 2000, according to research presented at a conference on Wednesday.
Cameroun/Affaire Bolloré: Les revendications des paysans fusent
- Afriquinfos
- 29 October 2014
L'alliance des paysans monte à Paris mais déplore l'absence d'un représentant de Socfin, basée au Luxembourg.
Accaparement de terres : le groupe Bolloré accepte de négocier avec les communautés locales
- Basta !
- 29 October 2014
Les représentants africains et cambodgiens sont venus demander au groupe Bolloré et à la Socfin de rétrocéder des terres et de stopper les expansions foncières.
Une paysanne du Mali attire l'attention du Vatican sur l'expropriation des terres
- Radio Vatican
- 28 October 2014
Membre de la Coordination nationale des organisations paysannes du Mali, Charlotte Zama appelle à l’aide du Pape François et du Vatican pour arrêter l'accaparement des terres.
Congo seeks investors for farmland bigger than France
- WSJ
- 28 October 2014
The Democratic Republic of Congo plans to lease as much as 640,000 square kilometers of farmland, or more than one-quarter of the central African nation.
Friction in American Samoa over farming programme
- RNZ
- 28 October 2014
American Samoan farmers have repeated their fears to the Governor that foreign farmers are buying up land and cashing in on government programmes to the detriment of locals.
Chinese interest in Australian farms is high but action is slow as China calls for reduced scrutiny from the Foreign Investment Review Board
- ABC
- 28 October 2014
There's no question that after five years of investing about $60 billion in the Australian resources and power sectors, the focus of Chinese investment is now on food.
Saudi Arabia facing food security issues head on
- Global AgInvesting
- 28 October 2014
Saudi Arabia's strategy is to encourage the Saudi private sector to invest abroad using their financial surpluses, their ‘ag’ experience and the modern production and irrigation technology they have.
Deforestation and the rise of industrial-scale farming in Africa could lie behind Ebola outbreak
- The Conversation
- 28 October 2014
The growing Ebola virus outbreak not only highlights the tragedy enveloping the areas most affected but also offers a commentary on they way in which the political ecology in West Africa has allowed this disease to become established.
Les chasses du milliardaire Rashid Sardarov gênent Lodestone
- African Intelligence
- 28 October 2014
Le projet de développement d'une ferme de gibier de 46 000 ha par l'oligarque russe Rashid Sardarov, près de Windhoek, perturbe un programme d'exploitation de fer dans la zone.
Agricultores brasileiros expandem investimentos em países africanos
- UDOP
- 27 October 2014
À frente de lavouras de algodão, feijão, milho e sorgo no Sudão desde 2009, em parceria com o Ministério da Agricultura do país africano, o Grupo Pinesso deve aumentar seus investimentos na África com a implantação de 45 mil hectares de milho irrigado a partir de 2015.
More than 540 civilians killed in ethnic conflicts in Ethiopia
- Diplomat
- 27 October 2014
The gruesome massacre in the Gambella region of Western Ethiopia was a direct consequence of the ill-fated land grab policy of the Ethiopian government.