Cambodia’s deadly land grab battle
- chinadialogue
- 24 July 2012
Cambodia is a microcosm of a violent struggle playing out across the globe for control of a shrinking – and therefore increasingly valuable – pool of natural resources.
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Casos emblemáticos confirman grave crisis de la tierra en Paraguay
- Prensa Latina
- 24 July 2012
Un informe estatal reveló casos emblemáticos de operaciones irregulares para acaparamiento de tierras por políticos y latifundistas, mientras se agrava la crisis de miles de familias campesinas paraguayas que reclaman parcelas para trabajar y vivir.
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Harvard bullish on natural resources
- Foundation & Endowment Intelligence
- 24 July 2012
The chief of Harvard University’s $32 billion endowment said the fund has been eyeing timberland, farmland, infrastructure, energy and water-related investments in anticipation of growing global demand.
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World in Serious Trouble on Food Front
- 24 July 2012
Not only is the current food situation deteriorating, but so is the global food system itself. The progress in reducing hunger in recent decades has been reversed. Unless we move quickly to adopt new population, energy, and water policies, the goal of eradicating hunger will remain just that. Time is running out. The world may be much closer to an unmanageable food shortage than most people realize.
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US firm plans $60m investment in agric. sector
- Vanguard
- 24 July 2012
Dominion Farms will start planting rice in December 2012 on its 30,000 ha rice farm in Taraba and has trained 50 commercial farmers in Kenya who will soon start their own commercial rice operations in Nigeria.
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Thai firms earmark billions for Myanmar
- The Nation
- 24 July 2012
Charoen Pokphand Group plans to invest $550 million within the next three years to develop maize and rice farms, rice mills and livestock processing plants.
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Les populations de Wassadou investissent l'avenue Léopold Sédar Senghor
- Sud Online
- 24 July 2012
«Non à une seconde Fanaye à Wassadou». Les populations de Wassadou et environs, au Sénégal, ont investi l’avenue Léopold Sédar Senghor pour protester contre la mise en œuvre d’un projet agro industriel sur 3000 ha.
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Quicken Nansanga process of investment, ZDA urged
- Daily Mail
- 24 July 2012
A senior government official in Serenje has urged the Zambia Development Agency to quicken the process of facilitating investment inflow in the 155,000-hectare Nansanga farm block in Central Province.
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Romanian farm land: a playground for foreign investors
- ARC2020
- 23 July 2012
For years, Romania has been a playground for foreign investors. Drawn by the vast amounts of available land, along with prices lower than in the rest of Europe, more than 700 000 hectares of land are now owned by foreign investors.
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Land concession cancelled by PM
- Phnom Penh Post
- 23 July 2012
The Cambodian government has cancelled a 14,981-hectare concession in the Cardamom mountains granted to an Australian firm for a banana plantation.
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Is the European Commission sweet on land grabbing? Trade benefits, sugarcane concessions and dispossession in Cambodia
- Terra Nullius
- 23 July 2012
In the last five years, land concessions totaling tens of thousands of hectares have been granted to private companies for industrial sugarcane production in Cambodia.
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Drought devastation has sunny side for farmland, timber investors
- PIP
- 23 July 2012
Drought conditions in much of the US this year could turn into a boon, rather than a bust, for institutional investors in farmland, timber and agricultural stocks.
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Evo Morales realizará una auditoría nacional sobre la tenencia de tierras en Bolivia
- Telam
- 22 July 2012
Señaló que a través de la auditoría podrá verificarse la existencia de “empresarios ilegales, palos blancos, o mal manejo en las tierras comunitarias de origen”.
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Liberar compra de terra para estrangeiro favorece 'ambientalistas de mercado'
- Rede Brasil Atual
- 21 July 2012
O presidente da Associação Brasileira de Reforma Agrária (Abra), Gerson Teixeira explica que, o texto do Código associado à liberação desregrada de venda de terra para estrangeiro traduz o momento hegemônico do agronegócio
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Investir dans l'agriculture dans l’UEMOA
- PANA
- 20 July 2012
Le Comité inter-parlementaire de l'Union économique et monétaire ouest-africaine a demandé aux Etats de mettre à la disposition de la Commission de l'UEMOA l'équivalent de 12.000 ha de terre à des fins agro-sylvo-pastorales et halieutiques.
