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Black Earth founder invests in dairy cows in Chechnya
- RBC Daily
- 15 October 2013
Mikhail Orlov, after having sold his Russian farming operations and shifted focus to Zambia, is back with a 4,800 cow dairy farm project in Chechnya.
Victimising the victims of land grabbing in Malen Chiefdom
- Green Scenery
- 15 October 2013
Five members of Malen Affected Land Owners Association arrested by police for allegedly destroying oil palms of Luxembourg-based SOCFIN say they are being unfairly targeted by those profiting from the plantation.
Deux autres journalistes de Basta ! mis en examen suite à une plainte du groupe Bolloré
- Basta !
- 15 October 2013
Le groupe Bolloré poursuit en diffamation Basta ! suite à la publication d’un article de synthèse sur l’accaparement des terres, en octobre dernier.
Old powers and new powers: agriculture and investment in Africa
- Zimbabweland
- 14 October 2013
Panel on food and agriculture included a discussion about ‘land grabs’, large and small farm models, and how investment in Africa could be increased, but also guided and regulated.
Agri-Vie invests in Cape Olive Holdings
- Business Day
- 14 October 2013
Agri-Vie, a private equity fund focused on food and agribusiness investments in sub-Saharan Africa, announces it has acquired a 63% stake in South Africa's largest table olive supplier.
PAN AP partners launch 'land grabs' book to mark 'World Foodless Day'
- PANAP
- 14 October 2013
Partner organizations of Pesticide Action Network - Asia and the Pacific launch a book compiling seven case studies on land grabbing in the region as part of its activities to mark "World Foodless Day"
Paraguay: "La acaparación de tierras para el cultivo de soja está destruyendo nuestra forma de vivir"
- El Diario
- 13 October 2013
Perla Álvarez, defensora de los derechos humanos en Paraguay, asegura que el modelo intensivo de producción de soja está condenando a miles de personas al hambre, la exclusión y la emigración.
China recurre a ambiciosas jugadas para asegurar provisión futura de alimentos
- La Tercera
- 13 October 2013
China recurre a ambiciosas jugadas para asegurar provisión futura de alimentos.
Cevital à la conquête de l’Afrique
- Depêche de Kabylie
- 12 October 2013
«Nous avons des projets en Afrique, notamment au Soudan, en Ethiopie, au Kenya, en Tanzanie et au Mozambique. Notre idée est d’aller dans ces pays qui nous offrent des terres agricoles et beaucoup d’eau».
A..Maizing! Meet the expert team behind our new Senegal investment
- Property Frontiers
- 11 October 2013
Dean Jobling, CEO and Founder of Sunu Agro, explains how his company's farm project in Senegal will be delivering investors expected returns of 239% over 5 years.
Myanmar farmers helpless against land grabbing
- AP
- 11 October 2013
Foreign investors, often working with current or former military officials, are scrambling to build roads, factories, power plants, bridges and industrial-sized plantations.
Flower growers in Kenya strike against Karuturi Global
- CorpWatch
- 10 October 2013
Flower growers in Kenya have gone on strike to protest unpaid wages from Karuturi Global, the Indian flower export multinational.
"Não existem terras livres para o ProSavana" critica Calisto Ribeiro
- Deutsche Welle
- 10 October 2013
Responsável da Associação Rural de Assistência Mútua de Nampula, condena a falta de transparência do projeto de desenvolvimento agrícola e mostra-se preocupado com a "usurpação de terras dos camponeses".
Briefing: Responsible agricultural investment
- Glopolis
- 10 October 2013
In the occasion of Committe on World Food Security session in Rome Glopolis is publishing a briefing on responsible agricultural investment which is one of the main issues discussing during this forum.
ProSavana e face oculta do Prodecer
- UNAC
- 10 October 2013
Desde seu lançamento, o ProSavana é acusado de tentar destruir a agricultura moçambicana por meio de uma “invasão de megaprodutores brasileiros”, que “se utilizariam de financiamento japonês”, em uma “repetição do processo que destruiu o Cerrado brasileiro”.