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Food crisis and the global land grab
farmlandgrab.org weekly | 26 Dec 2012

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UPI | 21 Dec 2012
Hungary bans foreign farmland ownership
Hungary this week moved to ban foreign ownership of agricultural land under its new constitution amid fears over the future of family farming in the country.

IPS | 20 Dec 2012
Fighting to save Africa's richest rainforest
Nasako Besingi, director of environmental NGO Struggle to Economize the Future, says protests against a controversial palm oil plantation in the Korup National Park, southwest Cameroon will continue despite arrests and intimidation.

EIA | 20 Dec 2012
Rogue palm oil firm ordered to stop clearing in Muara Tae
he Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) has upheld a complaint lodged by the London-based Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) against a rogue palm oil company and has ordered it to immediately stop clearing customary forests in Indonesian Borneo.

This is Africa | 20 Dec 2012
Andris Piebalgs, Commissioner for Development at the European Union
"Large scale agriculture investment requires a lot of transparency and legal certainty, and that is what is lacking most of the time," he says. "We have seen that large-scale investment coming - I'm not saying that it is wrong, but it should be very clearly covered by countries' legislation.

Tanzania Daily News | 20 Dec 2012
Curbing Tanzania's 'Land Grabbing Race'
From next month (January 2013), Tanzania will start restricting the size of land that single large-scale foreign and local investors can "lease" for agricultural use.

Star Phoenix | 20 Dec 2012
Demand for Sask. farm land raises concerns about foreign investors
The Farm Land Security Board of the Canadian province of Saskatchewan has now hired an investigator with some "special skills" and experience to look into illegal farm sales to foreign investors.

Asian Investor | 20 Dec 2012
Manulife AM steps up sales effort in Japan
The fund house aims to capitalise on Japanese pension plans' growing interest in new investment types, including Asian fixed income and certain alternatives like farmland


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CCFD | 20 dec 2012
Bénin : Djidja
Ce document est le résultat d’une étude réalisée au Bénin, et plus particulièrement dans dans la commune de Djidja, par Synergie Paysanne en partenariat avec le CCFD-Terre Solidaire.

Nouvel Obs | 20 dec 2012
« Les Dessous de la mondialisation : Terre à prendre en Ethiopie »
Documentaire sur Public Sénat


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Infocampo | 21 dic 2012
¿Quién es quién? Calyx Agro: la compañía de Louis Dreyfus para el farming y real estate
La companía fue fundada en 2007 con el objeto de canalizar fondos para la compra y desarrollo de campos en la Argentina, Brasil, Paraguay y Uruguay, la producción agropecuaria y la comercialización de sus productos.



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