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farmlandgrab.org WEEKLY |
22 Feb 2017 |
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Liberia: Cease governmental surveillance and harassment against human rights advocates defending land and natural resource rights. Send letter to President Sirleaf |
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Global Trade Review | 22 Feb 2017
Foreign lenders and investors are eagerly awaiting a change of law in Brazil, after finance minister Henrique Meirelles suggested they would be allowed to use land as collateral in trade finance and other loans from March onwards. |
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Naija247news | 21 Feb 2017
Federal Government of Nigeria has opened negotiation with Peoples Republic of China over $4.5 billion loan to facilitate the production of agricultural machineries for large scale farming in selected states across the country. |
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Slow Food | 20 Feb 2017
The French Parliament has definitively adopted a bill aimed at curbing the grabbing of agricultural land by greedy and unscrupulous investors, in order to guarantee the country’s national sovereignty and support the family farming model |
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Interafx | 20 Feb 2017
An appeal signed by 55 lawmakers has been sent to the Constitutional Court seeking to lift farmland sale moratorium in Ukraine. |
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Thompson Reuters Foundation | 16 Feb 2017
Brazil says it is pushing ahead with plans to change the law and let foreigners buy farmland, in a move widely backed by investors and opposed by land rights campaigners. |
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For Security | 16 Feb 2017
Joint Belarusian-Chinese company JSC SP ABC-Invest will implement an investment project in the agricultural industry in Minsk Oblast. The project will upgrade a pig farm (capacity of 11,500 head per year) and meat processing plant among other things. |
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Agrimoney | 16 Feb 2017
Russia's farmland market remains attractive to investors, both foreign and domestic, despite the apparent snub presented by Black Earth Farming's decision to quit, with prices soaring by up to 60% last year. |
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Act Now | 15 Feb 2017
Fifty two thousand square kilometres of customary land has been
stolen in the SABL land grab in Papua New Guinea. |
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Awoko | 13 Feb 2017
The present crop of large-scale land lease agreements with MNCS in Sierra Leone are fraught with serious, challengeable, and voidable provisions. If they are not renegotiated, then going to court for specific impact litigation will be the only way out. |
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Filipino Times | 26 Jan 2017
The Philippine Embassy’s agricultural counsellor is looking at working on an agreement in the area of food security with the UAE government |
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Comité technique F&D | 21 fev 2017
Même si les achats massifs de terre semblent moins visibles ces dernières années, les
accaparements fonciers se poursuivent sous de nouvelles formes. |
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IIED | 31 jan 2017
Le Sénégal possède un système de gouvernance foncière complexe et mal réglementé qui, conjugué à une urbanisation rapide et à un intérêt croissant des investisseurs étrangers, débouche sur la privatisation des terres et la diminution des terres arables à la disposition des exploitants familiaux |
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El Zonda | 21 feb 2017
En marzo podrá ser aprobada esta ley que permite la compra de tierras productivas a empresas y fondos de inversión extranjeros, una medida resistida por las Fuerzas Armadas y rechazada por la oposición y grupos ambientalistas. |
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| 22 Feb 2017
Organizações moçambicanas da sociedade civilrecentemente uma carta aberta ao Presidente JICA) protestando contra a atuação da agência japonesa no âmbito do programa de desenvolvimento agrário mais resistido em Moçambique, o ProSavana. |
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| 22 Feb 2017
要件:モザンビーク市民社会によるJICA宛公開書簡(「プロサバンナ事業におけるモザンビーク社会へのJICAの活動に対する抗議」)への賛同レター |
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MST | 20 Feb 2017
A sanha do governo de Michel Temer em atrair capital estrangeiro para o Brasil, com o objetivo de garantir a acumulação dos seus agentes financeiros parece não ter limites. |
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| 20 Feb 2017
原文は、下記サイトに掲載されているリーク文書。 |
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| 17 Feb 2017
Esta é a primeira carta que os camponeses e as organizações da sociedade civil de Moçambique articuladas na Campanha Não ao ProSavana endereçam à JICA. |
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| 17 Feb 2017
本状は、「プロサバンナにノー」を表明する農民と市民社会組織がともにJICAに提出する最初の書簡です。 |
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Globo Rural | 16 Feb 2017
O ministro da Fazenda, Henrique Meirelles, disse que o governo pretende liberar nos próximos 30 dias a venda de terras brasileiras para os estrangeiros. |
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