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farmlandgrab.org WEEKLY |
08 Nov 2017 |
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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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Investor Survey on Land Rights | 08 Nov 2017
We invite you to participate in the first biennial Investor Survey on Land Rights. The survey will track investor and operator perceptions and practices related to land tenure and property rights in land-based investments. The survey is being conducted by Indufor North America, managed by the Cloudburst Group, and initiated by USAID. The European Investment Bank is pleased to endorse this initiative. |
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Phnom Penh Post | 08 Nov 2017
Farmers and agricultural NGOs in Cambodia slammed the seventh and final draft of a controversial agricultural law. A representative of farmer network said the law makes it easier for government to offer land to private companies. |
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Weekly Times | 07 Nov 2017
According to the latest Register of Foreign Ownership of Agricultural Land, Chinese ownership of Australian farmland has increased tenfold in the past year, to 14.4 million hectares. |
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Bloomberg | 07 Nov 2017
Arrests of some of Saudi Arabia's richest people includes two businessmen with large-scale farmland investments: Alwaleed bin Talal investing in Egypt and Mohammed Al Amoudi in Ethiopia. |
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Food Navigator | 06 Nov 2017
Mergers and market concentration in the agricultural sector are skyrocketing. Land concentration, monocultures and an almost complete dependency of farmers and consumers on corporate decisions are the alarming consequences. |
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Mongabay | 06 Nov 2017
Brazilian president Michel Temer has now twice survived votes to initiate impeachment against him. Temer did so by selling out the environment, allowing agribusiness to rent indigenous lands. |
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GNA | 03 Nov 2017
The Brazil Agrobusiness Group, a company focused exclusively on rice cultivation at Kpenu, near Dabala in the South Tongu District is to double production by 2020. |
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Independent | 03 Nov 2017
The Edo State governor says one of the companies that has signed up to invest in the state is Tolaram, a huge conglomerate from Singapore that plans to invest $50 million in oil palm and cassava cultivation. |
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Namibian | 03 Nov 2017
Russian billionaire Rashid Sardarov is seeking the right to buy three farms to extend his game ranch to 46,000 ha, and at the same time is offering to donate N$24 million to the land reform ministry. |
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AL-Monitor | 02 Nov 2017
Sudan wants to expand agricultural production and investments, which could benefit it as well as Egypt, but Cairo worries that such a development might threaten its supply of the Nile's water. |
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No to ProSavana campagin | 25 Oct 2017
The 3rd Peoples’ Triangular Conference organized by the No to ProSavana Campaign on 24-25 October 2017 gathered 200 members of the campaign from Mozambique, Brazil and Japan to profoundly and democratically reflect on Mozambique's development model. |
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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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RTBF | 08 nov 2017
Bukanga Lonzo, c'est un des projets phares de la présidence. Un gigantesque parc agro-industriel, le premier d'une série de fermes géantes, censées mener le pays vers l'auto-suffisance alimentaire. |
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Cameroon Tribune | 08 nov 2017
Le Centre pour l’environnement et le développement lance un projet pour agir contre les changements du couvert forestier consécutif à ce type d’investissement. |
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La Tribune Afrique | 08 nov 2017
Jacques Diouf, l’ancien directeur général de l’Organisation des Nations Unies pour l’alimentation et l’agriculture (FAO), a accordé un long entretien à La Tribune Afrique. |
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ARTE | 07 nov 2017
Depuis l’entrée en vigueur d’une nouvelle loi en 2014, la Roumanie connaît un alarmant phénomène d’accaparement des terres arables. |
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Caisse des dépôts | 06 nov 2017
Le phénomène de concentration des terres agricoles par le bais de sociétés fera l’objet d'un rapport du Conseil général de l’alimentation, de l’agriculture et des espaces ruraux "avant la fin de l’année", a annoncé le gouvernement français |
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Leral.net | 05 nov 2017
Cet expert associé à l’IPAR invite à poursuivre la réflexion pour affiner le schéma foncier opté par le PDIDAS car l’expression de « délibération sécurisée » pose beaucoup de problèmes au regard du droit. |
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RIAO-RDC | 02 nov 2017
Une Délégation de FERONIA séjourne en ce moment en RDC. Séjour qui présentement soulève de nombreuses inquiétudes vu les traitements dont sont victimes les membres et travailleurs de notre ONG. |
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Página 12 | 05 nov 2017
El acaparamiento de tierras cobró una dimensión global, pero es un proceso que predomina en la periferia, incluida la Argentina. |
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http://upsidedownworld.org/noticias-en-espa/mapuches-benetton-y-un-asesinato-impune/ | 02 nov 2017
Santiago Maldonado es el nombre que sacudió la Argentina desde el 1 de agosto. En el medio, la multinacional Benetton, propietaria de 900.000 hectáreas, el mayor terrateniente de Argentina. |
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Momarandu | 02 nov 2017
Productores agropecuarios de varias localidades de Corrientes ratificaron con un plenario abierto en Boquerón la defensa de la vida en el campo y se manifestaron en contra del desarraigo, la concentración y extranjerización de tierras. |
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Berita Bulukumba | 06 Nov 2017
Ratusan warga yang tergabung dalam Aliansi Gerakan Reforma Agraria (AGRA) Bulukumba menggelar aksi di kantor bupat menuntut agar Pemerintah Kebupaten tidak melakukan perpanjangan Hak Guna Usaha (HGU) PT. Lonsum Tbk. |
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