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farmlandgrab.org WEEKLY |
04 Oct 2017 |
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Take action against the arbitrary arrest and detention of Cameroon land defender Nasako Besingi |
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Women in Africa launch petition to stop all forms of abuse against women in oil palm plantations. Please sign |
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NZ Herald | 04 Oct 2017
The New Zealand Superannuation Fund has made its first offshore farm investment, taking a stake in Australian beef stud Palgrove for an undisclosed amount. |
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Interfax | 04 Oct 2017
"The moratorium on agriculture land sales is a major impediment to attracting investment and unlocking productivity in Ukraine's agricultural sector," says World Bank. |
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ABC | 04 Oct 2017
Chinese investment in Australian farmland has risen over the past year from about 1.5 million hectares to almost 14.5 million hectares. |
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ABS-CBN | 04 Oct 2017
Three-quarters of around 50 conflicts that have erupted in Southeast Asia since 2001 pitting mining, logging or agribusiness giants against indigenous peoples protesting land grabs are still lingering today, researchers reported Tuesday. |
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Nikkei | 03 Oct 2017
88 per cent of land disputes in Southeast Asia are not resolved puts the region above the 61 per cent global average, according to the research, which covers land disputes dating from 2001. |
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Maravi Post | 03 Oct 2017
The Malawi Investment and Trade Centre this week emphasized on the need for the public to embrace responsible agriculture investment if Malawi is to avert economic misfortunes it is encountering |
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Phnom Penh Post | 02 Oct 2017
A sugar company involved in a land dispute in Kampong Speu province rebuffed suggestions that it is in part responsible for the temporary shuttering of land rights NGO Equitable Cambodia. |
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Guardian | 02 Oct 2017
Nasako Besingi has been jailed after opposing a US-funded palm-oil plantation and supporters say this is linked to Cameroon’s ‘anglophone crisis’ |
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PANAP | 02 Oct 2017
“Before the company came to clear our lands, nobody in Prame ever experienced hunger,” villagers from Preah Vihear Province, Cambodia tell PANAP. |
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The Reporter | 02 Oct 2017
Claiming to have made an investment of US$75M and created 4000 jobs, Karuturi is not only appealing for the release or re-export of its properties but to sue Ethiopian officials hereferred to as “responsible” for violations of rights of a foreign entity. |
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Brisbane Times | 30 Sep 2017
The amount of Australian farm land owned by Chinese interests has surged tenfold in the past year, climbing above 14 million hectares or 2.5 per cent of all agricultural land. |
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IPE | 29 Sep 2017
It is the first time the US pension fund has awarded a separate account for the asset class, although in February it announced it was investing $125m in International Farming Corporation’s US Farming Realty Trust III. |
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Des femmes en Afrique lancent une pétition pour que cessent toutes sortes d’abus sur les femmes autour de grandes plantations de monoculture d’arbres. Signez ici.
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Signez la pétition : huile de palme = accaparement des terres
http://farmlandgrab.org/post/view/27443
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Bastamag | 04 oct 2017
Le Collectif citoyen en France contre l’accaparement des terres a organisé un colloque à l’Assemblée nationale le 25 septembre 2017. Reportage de Bastamag. |
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Les Eco | 03 oct 2017
Entretien avec Konimba Sidibé, ministre malien de la Promotion de l'investissement et du secteur privé, qui appelle les investisseurs marocains à se lancer massivement dans l’agriculture au Mali. |
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CNCR | 02 oct 2017
Le CNCR collecte les informations pour procéder à une analyse exhaustive des projets d’investissements sur le foncier dans la commune de Fass Ngom, dont la SCL et le PDIDAS |
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NdarInfo.com | 29 sep 2017
Trois ans après son lancement, le Projet pour le développement inclusif et durable de l'agrobusiness au Sénégal, financé par la Banque mondiale, est une grosse déception. Reportage de NdarInfo. |
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Le Républicain | 29 sep 2017
Les manifestants demandent aux autorités de mettre fin à l'accaparement des terres et de libérer tous les paysans emprisonnés à tort |
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Observatoire des Multinationales | 28 sep 2017
Les procès intentés par des multinationales contre ceux qui mettent en cause publiquement leurs pratiques se multiplient, aussi bien en France qu’à l’étranger. |
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Agence Ecofin | 28 sep 2017
La compagnie brésilienne Costa Negocios, active dans le secteur de l’agrobusiness, investira 50 millions $ dans le secteur agricole malawite |
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Nessma | 27 sep 2017
Le ministre de l'Agriculture de la Tunisie a fait savoir que l’Etat a récupéré 90 mille hectares de terres agricoles domaniales et que son département prévoit la distribution de 20 fermes dans les gouvernorats de Siliana, El Kef, Jendouba et Kasserine. |
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France 3 | 27 sep 2017
Dans le centre de la France, en 2016, l’achat de 1 700 hectares par un Chinois a suscité un vif émoi politique. "Pièces à conviction" a enquêté sur ce mystérieux investisseur qui refuse d’apparaître au grand jour. |
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MALOA et al. | 25 sep 2017
Le 21 septembre 2017, la police a empêché 150 à 200 femmes de se rendre à Pujehun, en Sierra Leone, en vue d’exhorter les autorités locales à prendre des mesures contre la société SOCFIN. |
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Africa Intelligence | 22 sep 2017
Le groupe allemand propriétaire de 70 000 hectares de terres en Oromia a vu un dernier événement mettre un point d'arrêt définitif à son aventure éthiopienne. |
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IHU | 02 Oct 2017
Daí cantamos a rejeição aos projetos de morte:“aê meu povo, vamos prestar atenção...vem aí o MATOPIBA destruindo o Maranhão...” |
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