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Audit slams World Bank agency
- Al Jazeera
- 12 January 2014
Investigation says loan to Honduran palm oil magnate, alleged to be linked to activist deaths, violated bank's rules.
Land grabbing and its dire consequences in Ethiopia
- Afrogadaa
- 11 January 2014
The unconstitutional government land program may be the most painful tragedy for the framers of southern and western Ethiopia that they can ever tell, if they are allowed to tell it.
EIA cracks down on tardy investors
- Africa Intelligence
- 10 January 2014
The Ethiopian Investment Agency (EIA) has withdrawn 3,000 investment permits that it had previously granted to Ethiopian and foreign companies, including Karuturi Global Ltd.
Position of ADECRU on the visit of Prime Minister of Japan in Mozambique
- ADECRU
- 10 January 2014
President Armando Emilio Guebuza and PM Shinzo Abe must respect the legitimate and sovereign demands of the people of Mozambique, Brazil and Japan and suspend ProSavana and the G8 New Alliance.
Huile de palme, quelle contribution au développement ?
- CCFD-TS
- 10 January 2014
Les agences de développement comme l'AFD doivent impérativement renforcer leurs exigences en matière de responsabilité sociale et environnementale des investisseurs privés tels que la Socapalm au Cameroun qu’elles financent.
Vitivinícolas chilenas planean invertir más US$ 100 millones en tierras peruanas
- Gestión
- 09 January 2014
Las empresas Concha y Toro, Grupo San Pedro y Santa Rita estarían mirando con gran interés arribar a Perú a través de compras directas o joint venture con socios locales.
What's driving the palm oil industry's human rights abuses and environmental destruction? Just follow the money
- FOEi
- 09 January 2014
Palm oil is cheap because it’s produced by a global industry built on land grabbing, human rights abuses and environmental devastation.
Middle East investors ask Alta. man to help buy farmland
- Western Producer
- 09 January 2014
Investors from Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates have asked Ed Smith, a southern Alberta hay exporter, to help them buy land in North America. 
US palm oil company fined $4.6m in discrimination suit
- Mongabay
- 08 January 2014
Herakles Farms has been ordered to pay $4.6 million by a court in Cameroon over alleged discrimination in its hiring practices.
Accaparement des terres : les pays du Golfe reculent
- Jeune Afrique
- 08 January 2014
Face aux difficultés enregistrées en Afrique, les pays du Golfe réorientent leur stratégie d’investissement agricole vers des territoires moins risqués, notamment les États-Unis et l'Europe de l'Est.
'Land grabbing': is conservation part of the problem or the solution?
- IIED
- 07 January 2014
Land can also be ‘grabbed’ for ‘green’ purposes, triggering conflicts that undermine potential.
Les paysans de Sierra Leone refusent de laisser accaparer leurs terres pour une plantation de palmiers à huile
- GRAIN
- 07 January 2014
Depuis un certain temps déjà, ceux qui travaillent avec les communautés locales dans le district de Pujehun tentent d’avertir le gouvernement et l’entreprise de la dégradation de la situation.
Foreign investors target palm industry in Mindanao
- Philippines News Agency
- 07 January 2014
Palm oil cluster industry Chairman Raul Nuevas said most of these foreign investors are looking for “big contiguous area” of 100,000 ha that they can lease for 100 years.
Agrokultura reveals 'interest' in its Ukraine unit
- Agrimoney
- 07 January 2014
Stockholm-listed Agrokultura said that it had received "interest" in its Ukrainian business, which harvested 69,100 hectares of crops last year.
Colombia no es la excepción de adquisiciones masivas de tierras en el mundo
- The Broker
- 07 January 2014
Nunca todos los logros y esfuerzos lograrán terminar el acaparamiento pero dejan precedentes importantes y enseñanzas para el presente y futuro de la humanidad ante el muro empresarial que se ha cimentado para justificar la desigualdad rural, la crisis ambiental, y el control de la tierra.