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Radio NZ | 29 Jul 2015
Papua New Guinea NGO ActNow! says 5 million ha were illegally acquired from traditional land holders and APEC Ministers need to know this. |
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DTE | 28 Jul 2015
A recent report states that Senhuile SA is facing protests from residents of surrounding villages due to allegations of land grabbing and other instances of mismanagement. |
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JCC | 28 Jul 2015
Presentation made by the 3rd Joint Coordination Committee of ProSAVANA on December 3, 2012 in Nampula |
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Club of Mozambique | 28 Jul 2015
No new plantation has succeeded since independence. No new plantation investment has yet been profitable |
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Daily News | 28 Jul 2015
Yara and Unilever are partnering on a smallholder contract growing programme, connected to Unilever's 3,253 hectare tea plantation in the Southern Agricultural Growth Corridor (SAGCOT). |
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Weekly Times | 28 Jul 2015
Labor’s trade spokeswoman Senator Penny Wong has slammed the Coalition’s agricultural foreign investment policy at today’s premier grains industry event. |
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France Agricole | 28 Jul 2015
Le Comité économique et social européen (CES européen) voit un risque sérieux dans la forte concentration des terres aux mains de grands investisseurs non agricoles et de grandes entreprises agricoles. |
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Reuters | 28 Jul 2015
Some of Vietnam top firms are carving out opportunities in its $37 billion agriculture and seafood sector and looking to expand overseas, helped by free trade pacts. |
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Guardian | 27 Jul 2015
Local residents complain expansion plans by Socapalm, Cameroon’s biggest palm oil company, will take over land that belongs to them |
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The Ecologist | 27 Jul 2015
The only long term solution to this terrible disease may lie in forest conservation, the restoration of agroecological farming systems, and the exclusion of agribusiness investment. |
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AFP | 25 Jul 2015
As land grabs by firms linked to multinationals drive small-holder farmers out of business, a group behind a February bid for compensation by 100 farmers says rights violations and environmental degradation are also at stake. |
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Reuters | 24 Jul 2015
Thailand's largest meat producer to buy Russian poultry farm from Dutch firm Agro-Invest Brinky B.V. for $680 million in cash through its subsidiary CPF Netherlands, which receives a tax exemption from the Dutch government. |
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Xinhua | 24 Jul 2015
Australian farms and cattle stations are becoming increasingly attractive to overseas investors - especially Chinese buyers looking for beef sources in other countries. |
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Re:Common | 24 Jul 2015
A new report by Italian researchers shows that the controversial Senhuile project in Senegal is on the verge of collapse. The project, initiated by Italian and Senegalese investors four years ago to produce biofuels, has provoked fierce resistance from affected communities in which six people have died. |
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TeleSur | 23 Jul 2015
Massive land grabs in Liberia by a major oil palm company at the peak of the Ebola outbreak have had a hand in the harassment and violence faced by Liberians speaking out against palm oil expansion, a new report released Thursday claims. |
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| 23 Jul 2015
A bill aimed at limiting the sale of rural land to overseas investors failed to make it past the first stage when it was introduced in Parliament last night. |
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Video News | 23 Jul 2015
Fresh documents allege land grabs amounting to ‘crimes against humanity’ affected 830,000 people since 2000 |
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AIM | 23 Jul 2015
The Mozambican government on Thursday categorically denied that any Mozambicans would lose land because of the Pro-Savana agricultural development programme under way in the north of the country. |
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Global Witness | 23 Jul 2015
Global Witness exposé reveals violence, threats, and false promises driving rapid palm oil expansion in Liberia. Urgent reforms needed to protect citizens and regulate plantation companies. |
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BBC | 23 Jul 2015
Communities in Liberia are being pressured to sign away their land to make way for palm oil plantations, according to a campaign group. |
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Africa is a Country | 22 Jul 2015
A Canadian agribusiness company, Feronia — financed by American and European Development Institutions, is involved in land grabbing, corrupt practices and human rights violations in the Democratic Republic of Congo. |
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NZ Farmer | 15 Jul 2015
PGG, which is half owned by Agria Corporation of China, purchased 50% of Uruguay seed producer and farm servicing company Agrocentro Uruguay. |
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World Bank | 13 Jul 2015
The UN's Economic Commission, Germany's BMZ and the World Bank signed a Declaration of Intent to establish a new Network of Excellence on Land Governance in Africa to better secure land rights across Africa. |
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Reuters | 09 Jul 2015
Kenya-based private equity house Fanisi Capital said on Thursday it had bought a stake in a Tanzanian agro-processing company for $6 million, expanding its footprint in the region. |
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Act Now | 08 Jul 2015
Even though the Commission of Inquiry into the land grab has found the SABL process was flawed, land grabbing continues. Many communities are still not aware of what SABL is and how customary land is being stolen. |
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DFID | 21 Jun 2015
The UK government publishes the first issue of its Land Policy Bulletin, produced by its Land: Enhancing Governance for Economic Development (LEGEND) programme. |
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