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The Philippines offers Indonesia to open palm oil plantation
- Republika
- 01 June 2013
Government of Philippines offers Indonesian state-owned plantations company BUMN to develop palm oil plantations in Mindanao on an area of 120,000 ha.
Chinese farms go global
- The Diplomat
- 31 May 2013
If the Chinese government is to achieve its goal of accelerated urbanization, one issue it must deal with is food security. As China has developed more of its land, concerns have developed over whether enough arable land will be available to produce enough food to feed its massive population.
Algeria to open up farmland to foreign investors
- Reuters
- 31 May 2013
Algeria is to open up its farming sector to foreign investors for the first time to try to help cut food imports and also diversify its economy.
Mozambique seeks additional funding for ProSavana project
- Macauhub
- 31 May 2013
With a view to reproducing in Mozambique Brazil’s success in transforming its “cerrado” region into arable land, ProSavana is expected to have a direct effect on 4 million Mozambicans living along the area of the Nacala Corridor.
Malaysia’s Wah Seong to invest $744 million in Congo palm oil
- Bloomberg
- 31 May 2013
ATAMA Plantation Sarl, a unit of Wah Seong, will initially plant palm trees on 180,000 hectares.
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.