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LDPI working papers
- LDPI
- 31 May 2013
The Land Deal Politics Initiative provides a global platform to generate solid evidence on the 'global land grab' phenomenon through detailed, field-based research.
Mozambique farmers seek halt to aid project
- Kyodo
- 31 May 2013
Farmers in Mozambique are calling on the governments of Japan, Brazil and Mozambique to halt a project aimed at supporting agricultural development there, saying it will result in land grabs.
Our man in Sudan
- AJE
- 30 May 2013
An ex-Wall Street banker jets off to South Sudan to show how investors are rushing to Africa in a modern-day land-grab. Watch Al Jazeera 'Witness'.
Analyse 39: Large-scale land acquisitions in Liberia
- BfdW
- 30 May 2013
More and more African governments give away land to companies as they wish, even if occupied by local smallholders. New report from Brot für die Welt looks at legal aspects in the palm oil sector .
The bitter taste of Liberia’s palm oil plantations
- IPS
- 30 May 2013
Bah and his kinsmen were not consulted in the leasing of their land to EPO. He says the company used bulldozers to clear the land, including ancestral land and sacred sites, without any remorse or respect for their local culture.
Les actualités foncières ouest-africaines. Bulletin n°90
- Commission de l'UEMOA / Hub Rural
- 30 May 2013
Le dernier bulletin d'information de la Commission de l'UEMOA et du Hub Rural sur les actualités foncières ouest-africaines vient de paraître
「プロサバンナ事業の緊急停止と再考を求めるモザンビーク・ブラジル・日本の三カ国首脳宛公開書簡」
- 30 May 2013
モザンビーク共和国政府は、ブラジル連邦共和国政府並びに日本国政府との協力の下、2011年4 月にプロサバンナ事業を開始しました。
China's appetite for pork spurs $4.7 billion Smithfield deal
- Reuters
- 30 May 2013
China's Shuanghui International plans to buy Smithfield Foods Inc for $4.7 billion to feed a growing Chinese appetite for U.S. pork, but the proposed takeover of the world's No. 1 producer has stirred concern in the United States.
Herakles Farms au Cameroun : Bientôt la fin ?
- Al Qarra
- 29 May 2013
Le projet de plantations de palmiers à huile sur 70 000 ha semble de moins en moins en mesure de se concrétiser. Reportage d'Al Qarra TV.
Carta aberta para deter e reflectir de forma urgente o Programa ProSavana
- UNAC
- 28 May 2013
Os signatárias desta Carta Aberta dirigem-se à chefes de Governo de Moçambique, Brasil e Japão para requerer que mandem tomar todas as medidas necessárias para suspensão imediata de todas as acções e projectos em curso nas savanas tropicais do Corredor de Nacala.
Ethiopia refuses to cooperate with World Bank funding probe
- Bloomberg
- 28 May 2013
Ethiopia’s government said it won’t cooperate with a probe into whether the World Bank violated its own policies by funding a program in which thousands of people were allegedly relocated to make way for agriculture investors.
Gov’t ‘gives away’ US$8.2m to Prairie Volta
- The Scandal
- 28 May 2013
The Government of Ghana in "a double loss" since the 2008 transfer of the assets of the Quality Grain Company to a US company that took over the Aveyime Rice Production Project.
ABP, PFZW to stick with controversial palm oil firm
- IPE
- 28 May 2013
Dutch pension funds say they will remain invested in Wilmar International due to their successful efforts to engage with the controversial palm-oil company accused by many of land grabbing
Changes planned for the law on foreign ownership of agricultural land
- Georgia Today
- 28 May 2013
Amid outcries from local residents against the foreign acquisition of agricultural lands in several Georgian regions, some experts have drafted recommendations to amend the Law of Georgia on the Ownership of Agricultural Land.
Open Letter from Mozambican civil society organisations and movements to the presidents of Mozambique and Brazil and the Prime Minister of Japan
- UNAC et al
- 28 May 2013
Mozambican peasants union and large number of national and international groups call on heads of state of Mozambique, Japan and Brazil to immediately suspend the ProSavana agribusiness project.