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farmlandgrab.org WEEKLY |
06 Apr 2016 |
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Green Scenery in Sierra Leone have initiated a petition calling on the President of the Republic to release Shiaka Sama and five other MALOA land rights activists from prison immediately. Three are out so far. Please support the effort! |
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Via Campesina | 06 Apr 2016
The struggles for land, water, and territory are central to the struggle for Food Sovereignty. |
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GNA | 06 Apr 2016
Stakeholders in land administration, on Wednesday discussed details of a project that aims at ensuring socially responsible land-based investments. |
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China Daily | 05 Apr 2016
Chinese fertilizer producer Hubei Xinyangfeng has secured its first allotment of farmland outside of China, after it purchased a farm in southern New South Wales, Australia. |
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Reuters | 05 Apr 2016
The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board is in advanced talks to buy a stake in Miner and commodity trader Glencore Plc's agricultural business, which has farming operations covering 270,000ha in Argentina, Australia, Kazakhstan, Russia and the Ukraine. |
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ActNow! | 04 Apr 2016
The government is to ignore the SABL Commission of Inquiry and endorse the SABL land grab by converting the unlawful leases into registered land and issuing new leases to companies. |
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Daily Nation | 04 Apr 2016
Kenya’s biggest flower firm is set to go under the auctioneers’ hammer, as owners of the Indian multinational failed to defend the winding up petition filed in court by creditors.
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PANAP | 02 Apr 2016
We denounce these repressive acts in the strongest terms and call upon the authorities to immediately hold to account all those responsible behind the vicious attacks on Indonesian and Filipino farmers, indigenous peoples and their supporters. |
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Romania Insider | 01 Apr 2016
Foreigners from EU countries may be entitled to buy farmland located in towns or villages (intravilan), as well as woodland, according to a draft bill initiated by several Romanian MPs. |
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Forbes | 01 Apr 2016
Trends suggest that farming may soon become a hotbed of M&A activity |
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Bloomberg | 01 Apr 2016
The factory and a sugar-cane plantation in Limeira do Oeste, Minas Gerais state, will be sold to JFLim Participacoes, Chicago-based ADM said |
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TCN | 01 Apr 2016
Prime Minister Tihomir Oreškovic has announced that an investor from the Middle East is interested in a 10,000 hectare plot of agricultural land in Slavonia. |
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ABC | 01 Apr 2016
We believe that there's plenty of land in Africa and Africa will feed the world, says Nuradin Osman, AGCO managing director for Africa and Middle East. |
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KazInform | 31 Mar 2016
In the future the national holding "KazAgro" plans to set up similar funds with China and the United Kingdom. |
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Sputnik | 31 Mar 2016
"Out of 4.9 million hectares available in the country, only one million are cultivated. The rest is waiting for the Russians and other foreign investors who are willing to come to us," says Nicaraguan Deputy Foreign Minister |
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The Conversation | 28 Mar 2016
The Chinese role in agriculture – in terms of business investment, technology transfer, demonstration efforts, training and more – is growing, and shaping perceptions. |
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Não ao Prosavana | 07 Mar 2016
International and Mozambican organisations and social movements allied in the No to ProSavana Campaign, denounce the current involvement of World Wildlife Fund in the ProSavana agribusiness programme. |
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Reuters | 07 Dec 2015
The company is investing instead in the Upper Egyptian governorate of Minya to grow olive and palm trees on 100,000 acres.
The Minya project will be 100,000 acres. |
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World Folio | 05 Jun 2015
As a joint venture between the UAE based Jenaan Investment and the Republic of the Sudan, Amtaar is today Sudan's largest scale agricultural investment. |
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Green Scenery au Sierra Leone a redigé une pétition à l'attention du Président de la République pour demander la libération immédiate de Shiaka Sama et les cinq autres militants anti-landgrabbing de MALOA. Trois d'entre eux ont été liberés. Soutenons leur effort !
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LesEco | 06 avr 2016
Les groupes Avril (France) et Zalar (Maroc) et le gouvernement du Sénégal ont signé un protocole d’accord de financement pour une unité de production de graines bio et de semences certifiées sur 1000 ha destinées à l'exportation |
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FIAN France | 05 avr 2016
Numéro hors serie du newsletter de FIAN France |
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Survie | 04 avr 2016
Vincent Bolloré avait déposé plainte contre un article publié en 2012 par Bastamag sur l’implication des multinationales françaises dans le processus d’accaparement des terres. Entretien avec deux des personnes poursuivies, Julien Lusson et Ivan du Roy. |
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CED | 04 avr 2016
Ce rapport, qui est le premier du genre sur la question des défenseurs de l’environnement, a été principalement réalisé dans quatre pays : Cameroun, Congo, Gabon et République Centrafricaine. |
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Camer.be | 04 avr 2016
Des investisseurs se livrent à toutes sortes d’exactions sur tous ceux qui œuvrent à la défense des droits à l’environnement, et donc à la défense des communautés concernées par l’exploitation des ressources naturelles, selon un nouveau rapport. |
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Survie | 04 avr 2016
Suite au procès de Bastamag pour un article sur l’accaparement de terres - dont le délibéré sera rendu le 7 avril - Survie revient sur le rapport du groupe Bolloré à la presse et à son image. |
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La Vía Campesina | 06 abr 2016
Las luchas por la tierra, agua y territorios son centrales en la lucha por la Soberanía Alimentaria. |
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WSJ | 05 abr 2016
Canada Pension Plan Investment Board es el probable ganador de una subasta organizada por Glencore. |
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Não ao Prosavana | 07 Mar 2016
"Nós, organizações da sociedade civil e movimentos sociais articulados na Campanha Não ao Prosavana, denunciamos o actual envolvimento da WWF no Prosavana".
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