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farmlandgrab.org WEEKLY |
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Stand with Cambodian communities vs. Chinese company’s landgrabbing! Sign the petition! |
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IANS | 28 Feb 2018
Park Agrotech, which is part of the Skylark Group, has established a poultry farm, feed mill and a fruits, vegetables and cereals farm on 4,000 acres of land at Lake Volta in the Eastern Region of Ghana. |
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T&D | 28 Feb 2018
The president of the African Development Bank says that this year it will launch the Africa Investment Forum as a transactional platform to leverage global pension funds and other institutional investors to invest in African agriculture |
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Finance Apprise | 26 Feb 2018
China started to buy aggressively agriculture land abroad and already directed interest to the French wheat. In France, the authorities learned lately about the acquisition of 1,700 hectares of cereal crops in central France thanks to clever attorney’s tricks. |
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AFP | 26 Feb 2018
Over the past four years Hu Keqin, owner of the Reward Group, has quietly snapped up 3,000 hectares of wheat fields in the central Indre and Allier regions of France. |
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The Star | 25 Feb 2018
A Chinese tycoon's purchase of vast wheat fields in France highlights China's increasing acquisition of foreign farmland as the Asian giant seeks to keep up with its massive population's growing appetite. |
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Times of India | 23 Feb 2018
Indian businessman Sai Ramakrishna Karuturi has been booked for allegedly sexually harassing a 23-year-old woman staffer of a spa centre in Bengaluru and abusing policemen who rushed to her help. |
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CPT et al. | 23 Feb 2018
Groups once again publicly denounce the alarming increase in violence and violations of rights of the communities in the Cerrado in Piauí, part of the region where the federal government is implementing its Matopiba Agricultural Development Plan |
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Telegraph | 22 Feb 2018
President Emmanuel Macron has promised farmers that he will stop foreign investors buying up land in France, after a Chinese fund purchased swathes of rich agricultural land in the centre of the country. |
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Bloomberg | 21 Feb 2018
Proterra Investment Partners, a private equity firm that was spun-off from agricultural giant Cargill, is raising $ 500 million to expand in Brazil, according to a person with direct knowledge of the subject. |
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Le Monde | 12 Feb 2018
The initiative launched in 2012 to support African agriculture is accused of favouring multinationals and land grabbing. |
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Front Page Africa | 23 Aug 2017
The operations of the Golden Veroleum Liberia, an oil palm concession company operating in Liberia is laden with several issues arising that could cause the company's operations to shut down. |
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Courrier du Vietnam | 28 fev 2018
Le Cambodge souhaite que les entreprises vietnamiennes spécialisées dans la production de noix de cajou viennent investir au Cambodge dans la culture d’anacardiers sur ses terres agricoles appropriées au développement de cet arbre. |
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Quotidien du Peuple | 26 fev 2018
Selon Zhao Yongsheng, les autorités françaises ne devraient pas [prendre] de mesures substantielles contre les acheteurs de terres chinois, notant que les remarques de M. Macron ne sont guère plus que du «politiquement correct». |
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AFP | 23 fev 2018
S'il a acquis légalement ces fermes, le milliardaire Hu Keqin a joué sur une faille juridique en achetant la quasi-totalité des exploitations, et non leur totalité. |
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France Bleu | 22 fev 2018
Les verrous réglementaires devraient permettre de limiter le rachat de terres agricoles par des investisseurs étrangers |
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Europe 1 | 22 fev 2018
Le débat d’Europe Soir sur Europe 1 |
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Jeune Afrique | 22 fev 2018
Après avoir frappé à la porte des banques de développement européennes pour défendre la cause des Pygmées, le militant congolais a été expulsé vers le Sénégal |
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La Nación | 23 feb 2018
China concentra una quinta parte de la población mundial pero solamente el 10% de las tierras arables disponibles en el mundo. |
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| 22 Feb 2018
As entidades que compõem a Articulação dos Povos Impactados pelo Matopiba vêm novamente a público denunciar o alarmante aumento da violência e de violações de direitos às comunidades do Cerrado no Piauí. |
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