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Grabbing back: Essays against the global land grab
- AK Press
- 26 May 2014
'Grabbing back' maps the struggle of the dispossessed to rise up and call for an end to the global land grab.
Cargill Australia managing director Phillipa Purser says foreign investment globally is important
- Weekly Times
- 26 May 2014
“We can have a nice debate about foreign investment here in Australia, but in the global context it isn’t a discussion about whether it is nice to have, we need it, we absolutely need it.”
8M ha eyed for oil palm plantations
- Inquirer
- 26 May 2014
Philippines' Environment Secretary Ramon Paje proposes the conversion of some 8 million ha of idle, denuded and unproductive lands across the country into oil palm plantations.
Deutsche Bank divests from Bumitama after civil society pressure
- FOEE
- 26 May 2014
Deutsche Bank has told Friends of the Earth Europe and Rettet den Regenwald that it sold its shares in the Indonesian palm oil supplier Bumitama following months of campaigning by the two groups.
L'essor des technologies agricoles chinoises au Mozambique (REPORTAGE)
- Xinhua
- 25 May 2014
La province de Gaza a offert à l'entreprise privée chinoise, China Wanbao Co. Ltd., 20 000 hectares de terres et a signé un accord de développement avec Wanbao portant sur un grand nombre de terres agricoles en friche et des zones environnantes.
Le Gabon prépare l'après-pétrole
- Le Figaro
- 25 May 2014
Au Gabon, il n'y a pas que l'or noir.
Update on status of land grab in rural Senegal by Senhuile SA
- RFI
- 24 May 2014
Frédéric Mousseau, Policy Director at the Oakland Institute, gives RFI's Laura Angela Bagnetto an update on the landgrab project that has occupied 20,000 hectares in northern Senegal
ProSavana Avança Dissimuladamente em Moçambique
- Verdade
- 24 May 2014
"Somos levados a concluir que a Carta Aberta das Organizações da Sociedade Civil foi taxativamente ignorada e que o projecto prossegue, como se tudo estivesse perfeito"
Argentina, Catamarca: Empresas locales y extranjeras avanzan sobre territorio campesino
- 24 May 2014
Son ni más ni menos que 116 mil hectáreas las que pretende este empresario estadounidense, que desde 2004 ha intentado avanzar sobre un territorio que incluye “escuelas, destacamento policial y un centro de salud"
Real assets an alternative in hunt for yield, forum told
- AsianInvestor
- 23 May 2014
Simon Hopkins, chief executive of Milltrust International Group, predicts agriculture will be “one of the best performing asset classes over the course of the next 10 years”.
ETG ordered to hand back land
- Africa Intelligence
- 23 May 2014
ETG considers the Government of Tanzania is trying to expropriate part of its land and is demanding compensation in the region of $20 million.
Laos “land grabs” drive subsistence farmers into deeper poverty
- IRIN
- 22 May 2014
Large-scale land leases in Laos are driven by foreign investment projects brokered between the government and private companies, which have increased in frequency in the past decade.
Landgrab by foreigners forces Kebbi farmers to move to Niger State
- Daily Trust
- 22 May 2014
Over 5,000 farmers from Kebbi State have been displaced as the state government took over their farmlands and allocated them to a Chinese firm for mass agricultural production.
Le Gouvernement sénégalais engagé dans la complémentarité entre agrobusiness et exploitations familiales (officiel)
- APA
- 22 May 2014
"L’heure n’est pas au choix entre exploitations familiales et agrobusiness," affirme Dr Waly Diouf, du ministre de l’Agriculture et de l’Equipement rural.
Agricultural FDI: Risky Business?
- World Bank
- 22 May 2014
MIGA—the political risk insurance and credit enhancement arm of the World Bank Group—plays an important role in making agricultural FDI more effective by reducing investors’ perceived risks to encourage market entry while applying environmental and social performance standards that boost the project’s sustainability.