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COFCO, Nidera form partnership
- World Grain
- 03 Mar 2014
China's COFCO has acquired a 51% share of Nidera to establish a strategic partnership.
Long-term planning is key to UAE food security investments
- 7Days
- 03 Mar 2014
The CEO of Emirates Investments Group calls for investment "in agricultural land abroad or leasing land to a professional who can manage it more efficiently with better practices."
A political anatomy of land grabs
- Myanmar Times
- 03 Mar 2014
“Crony companies” with extreme wealth and political leverage have become the new driver of land grabs in different parts of Burma, often financially backed by foreign investors.
Foreign logging companies still firmly in control in PNG
- PNG Exposed
- 03 Mar 2014
Loggers have used Special Agriculture and Business Leases to take control of over 5 million hectares of forest – more than 10% of Papua New Guinea’s total landmass.
Nigeria’s corporate billionaires go to farm
- Daily Independent
- 03 Mar 2014
Nigeria's Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development says his Ministry is working actively with state governments to secure land for genuine investors to address the issue of access to land.
The gritty side of farmland investing
- Wall Street Journal
- 03 Mar 2014
Worldwide, farmland is a hot investment area, but it’s also controversial, opaque, illiquid and sometimes relies on local operation that presents a risk of fraud.
Scramble for Africa threatens to leave continent starving
- Africa Review
- 01 Mar 2014
In five short years, rich countries have acquired about 80 million hectares of land in Africa and other developing countries in what is now a worrying trend.
ナンプーラ宣言 UNAC（全国農民連合）2014年度年次総会
- UNAC
- 01 Mar 2014
モザンビーク全国農民連合（UNAC）は、25年以上にもわたり、モザンビークの農民男女の社会的、経済的、文化的諸権利と食料主権を守るために闘ってきたモザンビークの小農運動であり、10万を超えるメンバーを代表する。
Ukraine unrest may boost farming, says Trigon Agri
- Agrimoney
- 28 February 2014
Danish-based Trigon Agri downplayed the risk to agriculture from Ukraine's crisis, saying it would probably herald a "better business environment".
Campesinos y pastores senegaleses exigen a la sombría multinacional Senhuile SA que se salga de sus tierras
- Colectivo de Ndiaël et al.
- 28 February 2014
Un grupo de campesinos y pastores del noroeste de Senegal está viajando por Europa para exigir que se cancele un negocio con tierras que amenaza la vida y los modos de subsistencia de unas 9 mil personas. Por favor ¡apoye su acción ahora!
L’agrobusiness attaque le Sénégal
- Libération
- 27 February 2014
Monoculture industrielle contre système pastoral : Senhuile SA a bien multiplié les promesses (hôpitaux, écoles, bourses). Une poignée d’emplois est venue. «Des jobs mal payés, jetables, qui consistent surtout à faire de la surveillance des champs. Une misère», déplore Ardo Sow.
Des paysans et éleveurs sénégalais exigent que la multinationale Senhuile SA quitte leurs terres
- Collectif de Ndiaël et al.
- 27 February 2014
Des paysans et des éleveurs du Sénégal exigent la fin d’une transaction foncière qui menace les vies de 9000 personnes. Soutenez leur action !
Colombia: The deadly fight for land
- Al Jazeera
- 27 February 2014
Al Jazeera's Fault Lines investigates the threats facing Colombian farmers struggling to return to their land.
Evicted families in Guatemala still face an uncertain future
- Trócaire
- 27 February 2014
Update on the Rio Frio community who were forcibly evicted off their land in the Polochic Valley to make way for a sugarcane plantation.
The global land grab: Beyond the hype
- Zed Books
- 27 February 2014
"A comprehensive and much-needed intervention on one of the most hotly contested but little-understood issues facing countries of the South today."