Land grabbing looms: New palm oil plantation threatens Cameroon's rainforest
    "We will continue to speak out against what can only be considered land grabbing, because the proposed location of Herakles Farms plantation is in the midst of a rainforest that sustains my local community and our unique wildlife."
    • Huffington Post
    • 22 February 2013
    Patient for profits
    US-based Aslan Global Management, a leader in the "patient capital" movement, manages more than 12,000 hectares of farmland in Ukraine and Mozambique on long-term lease and just entered into a 99-year lease for 45,000 hectares in Tanzania.
    • World Magazine
    • 22 February 2013
    Mozambican farmers fear foreign land grabs
    “In the very short term land will became scarcest for Mozambicans because the government is attracting foreign investors arguing that we have huge unused land“, a spokesperson for UNAC told IPS. “What happens, in fact, when investors come, their appetite is centered on land already being used by locals.”
    • IPS
    • 22 February 2013
    Palm oil expansion threatens Congo Basin forests - report
    Industrial cultivation of oil palm has "wreaked havoc" on rainforests and forest peoples in Southeast Asia and now threatens to do the same in the Congo Basin, a report from the Rainforest Foundation UK warns
    • AlertNet
    • 21 February 2013
    La Espera
    Avanza en la región la compra de tierras por parte de empresas; en Uruguay, anteproyectos para frenar extranjerización están en la órbita del Poder Ejecutivo.
    • La Diaria
    • 21 February 2013
    Georgia farms face Indian 'invasion'
    Thousands of Punjabi farmers have bought land in distant Georgia lured by cheap prices, angering some locals.
    • Al Jazeera
    • 21 February 2013
    Les actualités foncières ouest-africaines. Bulletin n°86
    Le dernier bulletin d'information de la Commission de l'UEMOA et du Hub Rural sur les actualités foncières ouest-africaines vient de sortir
    • Commission de l'UEMOA / Hub Rural
    • 21 February 2013
    Land rushes — and the people left behind
    Today, more than a quarter of all the land in Liberia is leased or owned by logging, mining, or factory-style agriculture companies. Nothing is wrong with that — unless you happen to be one of the people who used to live on that land.
    • Boston Globe
    • 20 February 2013
    Myanmar’s golden opportunity
    With 6 million hectares earmarked for agricultural commercialization, notably rubber plantations, millions of Burmese have been or stand to be dispossessed of land.
    • CGIAR
    • 20 February 2013
    Strike continues at Sime Darby
    Normal work at the Sime Darby Plantation in western Liberia has been stalled for the second week running, as workforce presses for better salaries and improved working conditions, having accused management of bad labor practice.
    • New Dawn
    • 20 February 2013
    Les forêts communautaires du Cameroun sous la menace d’un projet monstre d’huile de palme
    Herakles Farms a désigné Nestlé, Unilever, McDonalds et Walmart comme clients potentiels pour son huile de palme, ce qui est impossible. Car ces sociétés se sont engagées à des politiques d’achat dits "responsables".
    • Greenpeace
    • 19 February 2013
    India's World - Indian firms in Africa land rush
    Discussion about Indian companies grabbing land for food production in Africa
    • RSTV
    • 19 February 2013
    Uruguay: El senador Agazzi pone en el centro del debate la extranjerización de la tierra
    La propiedad y la productividad de la tierra así como los tributos que sobre ella puede resolver un gobierno son temas emergentes de la agenda política nacional luego que se declarara inconstitucional el ICIR.
    • Uypress
    • 19 February 2013
    How Ethiopians are being pushed off their land
    Indian companies are among the biggest land holders in the African country through deals concluded in dubious circumstances
    • The Hindu
    • 19 February 2013
    KLK quietly snaps up large tracts of Aussie farmland
    Malaysia’s palm oil giant Kuala Lumpur Kepong Bhd (KLK) has been steadily purchasing farms in Australia’s largest wheat-producing region
    • The Malaysian Insider
    • 19 February 2013

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