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SA not sweet on Zim plan to nab sugar firm's land
- Mail & Guardian
- 17 January 2014
Zimbabwe government officials are allegedly debating whether to expropriate Tongaat Hulett's farmlands.
Wasting arable land in Africa: The case of Gambella, Ethiopia
- NAI
- 17 January 2014
In Gambella, enormous areas of fertile land are lying fallow at an unfinished huge agricultural project site, and agricultural machines stand idle in rows, sinking into the ground.
Law limiting foreign ownership of state land under fire again
- State Journal
- 17 January 2014
A new review sought by Assembly Republicans of a law that limits foreign ownership of state land was criticized Thursday by an Assembly Democrat who called it an “end-around” attempt to change it.
Los esclavos de las rosas de Kenia
- El Mundo
- 17 January 2014
Sher Karuturi Ltd exporta cada día un millón y medio de rosas a Europa según su página web pero el barrio construido para sus trabajadores no tiene electricidad por impagos.
In Japanese: Position of ADECRU on the visit of Prime Minister of Japan in Mozambique
- ADECRU
- 17 January 2014
日本首相のモザンビーク訪問に対するADECRUのポジションペーパー: ADECRUは、ProSavana並びにニュー・アライアンスの実施を、以下の理由から批判し、拒否する。
In Japanese：Nampula civil society rejects Japan-Mozambique accord, demands response to open letter on ProSAVANA
- The Nampula Civil Society Organizations' Provincial Platform
- 17 January 2014
Press Release regarding the Prime Minister of Japan, Mr. Shinzo Abe, visit to Mozambique
Land governance programme map
- Donor Platform
- 16 January 2014
On January 22 a comprehensive database on land and resource governance programmes funded by members of the Global Donor Working Group on Land will be presented during the AGA in Paris.
German holding company farming in Zambia
- Deutsche Welle
- 16 January 2014
Amatheon, a company part owned by the German holding company Sapinda, grows wheat and soya beans on 30,000 ha that it has leased in Zambia.
CSO response to the CAO investigation into IFC investment in Corporación Dinant, Honduras
- 16 January 2014
International and Honduran CSOs condemn the response of the International Finance Corporation to the highly critical findings of the Compliance Adviser/Ombudsman regarding the IFC’s investment in Corporación Dinant in Honduras
No to greedy investors
- Tanzanian Daily News
- 16 January 2014
The Tanzanian government is not eager to parcel out too much land to transnational corporations, writes the Tanzania Daily News.
Swampy pool that has become a regional rice producer
- The People
- 15 January 2014
Dominion farm is one of the biggest agricultural activity in Siaya County and it is difficult to believe that the land it is sitting on was a few years back just a swamp.
When companies meet communities: Is this what friendly commercial farming looks like?
- Think Africa Press
- 15 January 2014
Some say the agribusiness Gadco's presence in eastern Ghana is the best thing that's ever happened in the region. Others fear that there are accidents waiting to happen.
Cambodian farmers say EU politics forces land grabs
- Deutsche Welle
- 15 January 2014
Farmers in Cambodia say a European free trade initiative set up to boost the Cambodian economy has instead forced them off their land.
Mozambican farmers rap Japan's ODA project for agriculture
- Kyodo
- 14 January 2014
Farmers and civic groups in Mozambique urged Japan during Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's trip to Africa to halt an agricultural program it is promoting in their country that they say could result in land grabbing.
Peak Water and Food Scarcity
- 14 January 2014
In the competition for water between farmers on the one hand and cities and industries on the other, the economics do not favor agriculture