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farmlandgrab.org WEEKLY |
20 Jan 2016 |
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Xinhua | 20 Jan 2016
A Chinese firm in southwest Nigeria's Ogun State has set up an integrated poultry farm in order to focus on enhancing the nation's food security through commercial agricultural production. |
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ABC | 20 Jan 2016
Chinese investors are buying up macadamia orchards in Queensland and New South Wales to protect their own supply |
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Philstar | 20 Jan 2016
The Gintong Ani Corporation of Singapore aims to initially put up a 5,000-hectare oil palm plantation in Datu Odin Sinsuat town in Maguindanao. |
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Namati | 20 Jan 2016
Book provides a variety of ingenious, creative, and practical strategies for proactively confronting the forces that undermine community land and natural resource tenure security in Africa. |
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Guardian | 19 Jan 2016
The property of a Dutch agricultural company, Solagrow, was torched by hundreds of people, angered by the company having fenced off 100 hectares of prime communal grazing land, leased by the government. |
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Business Insider | 19 Jan 2016
Like Karuturi’s disappeared $100 million farm investment, the Addis Ababa expansion plan embodies the perils and contradictions of the Ethiopian regime’s strategy of securing internal calm through economic growth and strong ties with foreign powers. |
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The Takeaway | 18 Jan 2016
One of the largest pension investors in the United States, TIAA-CREF, is facing accusations that its investments in Brazilian farmland are not socially responsible, or even illegal. |
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Farm Weekly | 18 Jan 2016
Northern NSW premium meat exporter Bindaree Beef set up a 10,000 square metre cutting-edge facility in QingDao, North Eastern China, aimed at value-adding Australian beef, is due to be finished by the end of 2016.
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Quartz | 15 Jan 2016
Access to traditional land remains fundamental to the well-being of indigenous groups. But in the last decade, national governments have sold over 81 million acres of land—much of it indigenous—to foreign investors without the permission of those inhabiting the land. |
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Nyasa Times | 12 Jan 2016
"Imagine, they started demarcating the land earmarked for selling without our knowledge. Our chiefs jumped the gun because we were supposed to be consulted from the word go other than seeing our land being demarcated" |
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ADECRU | 11 Jan 2016
The ProSavana coordination team, together with the governments of Mozambique, Brazil and Japan, has resorted to enticement and has set out to co-opt national civil society organisations. |
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SOMO | 30 Dec 2015
Based on new field research the report expands on working conditions and land conflict in Malawi’s sugar industry where Illovo Sugar (Malawi) Limited, a subsidiary of Associated British Foods is the country’s only producer |
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Institutional Investor | 05 Mar 2015
Sovereign wealth funds’ appetite for agriculture and fertilizer companies is growing as concerns about stable food supplies rise.
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Ndar Info | 17 jan 2016
Après le limogeage de Benjamin Dummai et la nomination de Massimo Castelluci à la tête de la société Senhule SA, Castelluci est parti et c'est Massimo Vittorio Campadese qui vient d’être nommé nouveau directeur général. |
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Ndar Info | 17 jan 2016
Gora Seck reste le président du conseil d’administration de la société, Giovanni Mazzotti, maintenu responsable de la production et Coudy Sy Diallo, responsable du département Environnement et développement durable. |
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APS | 14 jan 2016
Le document final de l’accord-cadre devant régir les relations entre les collectivités locales, les investisseurs et les populations, dans le cadre de la mise en œuvre du Projet de développement inclusif et durable de l’agrobusiness, a été adopté. |
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IPAR | 14 jan 2016
IPAR s'entretien avec des participants de l'Atelier sur les acquisitions de terres à grande échelle et la reddition de comptes en Afrique, a Dakar du 24 au 26 novembre 2015. |
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Ohada | 13 jan 2016
En 2013, le Bénin a adopté un nouveau Code foncier(3) qui présente d'importantes innovations et pourrait donner ainsi une direction très positive pour d'autres pays d'Afrique. |
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CADTM | 11 jan 2016
Vers un bouleversement des pratiques agricoles paysannes ? |
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VOA | 20 Jan 2016
Temem que suas terras sejam entregues aos mega-investimentos |
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JA! | 19 Jan 2016
Diante desta situação, a JA! reafirma a sua dedicação à Campanha Não ao ProSavana em defesa dos direitos das comunidades locais e do ambiente. |
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No! landgrab-Japan | 17 Jan 2016
Análise pela sociedade civil Japonesa sobre os documentos da JICA em relação ao ProSAVANA (versão revista) |
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ISS, Transnational Institute (TNI), Foodfirst Information & Action Network (FIAN), ICCO, Ecofair project, Hands on the Land Project, ICAS, LDPI, BICAS, Journal of Peasant Studies | The Hague | 04 Feb 2016
Global governance, politics, climate justice & agrarian/social justice: Linkages and challenges
http://www.iss.nl/research/research_programmes/political_economy_of_resources_environment_and_population_per/networks/critical_agrarian_studies_icas/icas_colloquium/global_governancepolitics_climate_justice_agrariansocial_justice/ |
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