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Canadians look south to invest in agriculture
- NBR
- 07 Mar 2013
Mark Wiseman, chief executive of the $A170 billion fund, will visit Australia this month amid the group’s expanding portfolio of interests across the Tasman.
Land grabs & the Canadian connection
- Watershed Sentinel
- 07 Mar 2013
Land grabs in Canada have not been well-documented. Provinces do not keep inventory on large-scale land acquisitions. This blind eye approach has some people, particularly farmers, worried.
Hidden impacts: How Europe's resource overconsumption promotes global land conflicts
- FOE
- 07 Mar 2013
A new report from Friends of the Earth finds that the EU is importing the equivalent of 1,212,050 square kilometres to meet its demand for food, contributing to climate change, biodiversity loss and land-grabbing.
Pension funds join forces to invest in farmland
- Reuters
- 07 Mar 2013
Major asset managers, cowed by the cost, the risk and the controversy involved in investing in farmland, are joining forces to increase investment in the historically under-capitalised sector.
New reports: African governments giving land away quickly, recognizing land rights slowly
- RRI
- 07 Mar 2013
Africa remains a target for land-grab developments worth billions; regional dialogue in Yaoundé focuses on the need for speed
Securing rights and livelihoods for rural women in the context of corporate land investments: Learning from experiences in Africa
- Land & Poverty 2013
- 06 Mar 2013
Without strong interventions led by rural women themselves, corporate land deals will continue to perpetuate and deepen existing gender inequalities and contribute to increased levels of resource scarcity, poverty and conflict.
Participation du Gabon au 1er congrès africain sur l’huile de palme
- Gabon Review
- 06 Mar 2013
L’ambition du Gabon de devenir le premier producteur africain d’huile de palme d’ici 2017 s’appuie sur deux investisseurs déjà présents, le Belge SIAT Gabon et le Singapourien Olam. Le pays met en avant un million d’hectares de terres cultivables disponibles pour cela.
Cambodian activist in attempt to overturn conviction
- Guardian
- 05 Mar 2013
Rights groups criticise 'veritable death sentence' against Mam Sonando for speaking out against controversial land grabs
Rebel ceasefire fuels Myanmar land grabs: report
- AFP
- 05 Mar 2013
Villagers have been forced from land with little or no compensation, harassed and extorted by both sides as land is parcelled off to domestic and foreign firms including from China and Thailand
FG, Olam partner to arrest impending hike in price of rice
- This Day
- 05 Mar 2013
The Federal Government and Singapore's Olam, which has 6,000 hectares under cultivation of rice, announce collaboration towards managing the impact of an imminent rice crisis in Nigeria.
5 PMEs brasileiras que apostaram na África
- Exame
- 05 Mar 2013
As histórias de empreendedores brasileiros que estão investindo numa economia que vem crescendo mais de 5% ao ano na última década.
“No land, no power”
- Swedwatch
- 05 Mar 2013
Executive summary of Swedwatch's report on the Swedfund-supported Addax Bioenergy project in Sierra Leone
Riz : Des manifestations contre l’accaparement de terre en Birmanie
- Commodesk
- 04 Mar 2013
Des manifestations de paysans ont dégénéré cette semaine en Birmanie. Les affrontements entre les quelque 400 agriculteurs, qui battaient le pavé pour réclamer l’arrêt des expropriations de leurs terres, et la police, ont fait un mort et une cinquantaine de blessés.
En Afrique, les marchés de l’agriculture et de l’agroalimentaire pourraient représenter 1 000 milliards de dollars en 2030
- Banque Mondiale
- 04 Mar 2013
"Il faut veiller à ce que les achats de terres soient conformes à des normes éthiques et socialement responsables, notamment en reconnaissant les droits des utilisateurs locaux, en organisant des consultations avec les communautés locales et en versant un dédommagement juste, au prix du marché, pour les terres acquises," selon la Banque mondiale.
Splash and grab: The global scramble for water
- New Scientist
- 04 Mar 2013
What we call land-grabbing is often more about access to irrigation. We urgently need to know how much is being purloined