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farmlandgrab.org WEEKLY |
24 Jan 2018 |
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Radio NZ | 24 Jan 2018
A community group in Papua New Guinea says the government needs to stop organising 'land grabs' disguised as investment. |
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Weekly Times | 24 Jan 2018
More detail surrounding foreign ownership of Australia’s agricultural assets should be made publicly available, the National Farmers’ Federation says. |
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GAI | 24 Jan 2018
In spite of a growing agricultural sector, attractive farmland prices and increasing foreign investment flowing into the sector, the decision to invest in Brazilian farmland is still very much a risk versus reward consideration. |
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Rising Kashmir | 23 Jan 2018
To censure activism and opponents, Indian corporates have been using legal protection against journalists and campaigners but the debate on this issue has not taken off, possibly because of fear. |
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The Monitor | 22 Jan 2018
About 5,000 residents in the Island district of Buvuma have rejected a government proposal to compensate them for their land to pave way for oil palm growing for Bidco Uganda, claiming their property was undervalued. |
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Gobal AgInvesting | 18 Jan 2018
A continued proliferation of farmland managers and investment strategies is expected in the years ahead, says president of AgIS Capital LLC |
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Macauhub | 15 Jan 2018
A joint venture between Chinese companies Power China International Group Ltd and Xinjiang Production and Construction Corp. plans to make use of 3,000 hectares of irrigated land in Chókwé, southern Mozambique |
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NBR | 15 Jan 2018
Canada's Public Sector Pension Investment Board, got a green light to buy a medium-sized New Zealand dairy farm and a neighbouring dairy support block in Canterbury for $17.7 million just ahead of tougher requirements on land sales to foreign buyers. |
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Farm Online | 15 Jan 2018
One of the people most active in driving Chinese investment in Australian farmland, David Goodfellow, is switching camps to help build a $1 billion Canadian investment portfolio. |
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Reuters | 10 Jan 2018
Fed up with local officials denying their demand for land, 40 women decided to form a collective and start farming a plot near their village of Pallur, India’s southern state of Tamil Nadu. As of March 2017, about 300,000 women were farming more than 51,000 hectares of land in collectives. |
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Mediapart | 24 jan 2018
Ce jeudi 25 janvier s’ouvrira un procès contre Mediapart, L’Obs et Le Point et deux ONG, Sherpa et ReAct, attaqués en diffamation par la holding luxembourgeoise Socfin, fortement liée au groupe Bolloré. |
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Jeune Afrique | 24 jan 2018
L’acquisition des actifs meuniers de Mimran pour plus de 300 millions d’euros signe l’arrivée du groupe américain, Seaboard Corporation au Sénégal et en Côte d’Ivoire. |
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L'Humanité | 23 jan 2018
En demandant la relaxe pour Marcus, nous exigeons non seulement que justice soit faite, mais exprimons également notre solidarité à l’égard des riverains des plantations Socfin-Bolloré |
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Agence Ecofin | 23 jan 2018
Dénonçant un accaparement de leurs terres, les habitants des villages de Sagne Bambara et Ngane, à Dya, dans l’Ouest du Sénégal, ont organisé, ce dimanche 21 janvier 2018, une marche de protestation contre un projet de construction d’une usine d’extraction de sel. |
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RT | 18 jan 2018
Environ 50 personnes protestaient à Paris, en solidarité avec les agriculteurs maliens, contre la confiscation de leurs terres. |
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El Watan | 17 jan 2018
Des opérateurs du Golfe ont manifesté leur intention d’investir dans la filière des agrumes dans la wilaya de Chlef, en Algérie |
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Reporterre | 16 jan 2018
Selon Front Line Defenders, 312 défenseurs des droits humains et environnementaux ont été tués en 2017 dans 27 pays. Plus des deux tiers d’entre eux défendaient les droits fonciers, environnementaux et autochtones. |
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France 2 | 11 jan 2018
Des exploitants agricoles français font le choix de produire ailleurs, dans des pays à la main-d'oeuvre bon marché et aux règles moins contraignantes. Des céréaliers louent ainsi des surfaces en Ukraine. |
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El Pilón | 21 ene 2018
El sector agropecuario del Cesar sigue siendo atractivo para inversionistas internacionales que están llegando para mirar la posibilidad de establecer agronegocios en la región. |
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