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farmlandgrab.org WEEKLY 21 Mar 2018
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Help free Ayub, the agrarian fighter from West Kalimantan. Sign the petition
 
 
Stand with Cambodian communities vs. Chinese company’s landgrabbing! Sign the petition! 
 
Campanha Nacional em Defesa do Cerrado | 21 Mar 2018
The current World Bank’s land titling program in northeastern Brazil is a license for land grabbing

The World Bank is financing a land titling program in the Brazilian State of Piauí, where large areas of land have been grabbed from local communities and illegally occupied by big agribusiness companies.

Astana | 20 Mar 2018
Kazakhstan: Kostanai region to advance agriculture, car assembly with Italian, Chinese investments

The Italian agribusiness investors are interested in land leasing with ready engineering and transport infrastructure and access to the Chinese and Russian markets

StarPhoenix | 20 Mar 2018
Canada must curb farmland speculation to keep grip on food security: Senate report

Multiple elements are driving farmland values up such as purchases by agriculture multinationals and by institutional investors such as pension funds and trusts.

Xinhua | 20 Mar 2018
Chinese agricultural firms expand along Belt and Road

The Central Asia region has become a hot investment destination for Chinese agricultural firms, such as Huangfanqu Farm in Tajikistan.

BWP | 19 Mar 2018
The wrongdoings of the Doing Business Rankings and the corporate take-over of agriculture

Handing over natural resources like land to corporations and destroying small-scale agriculture will not reduce poverty.

Times of Central Asia | 19 Mar 2018
Dutch university to help create agricultural park in Kazakhstan

During the event investment opportunities and the potential of Kazakhstan in the agricultural sector were presented to 60 Dutch businessmen

VC Circle | 19 Mar 2018
Dubai-based Phoenix Group to invest in rose exporter Karuturi’s Kenyan biz

Dubai-based agriculture and food company Phoenix Group will invest in debt-laden Kenya operations of rose exporter Karuturi Global Ltd.

NZ Farmer | 15 Mar 2018
Alibaba-related company rolls out more NZ milk offerings to online savvy Chinese

A group of Chinese companies is rolling out more premium UHT milk and planning a new "fashion milk" from its 29 New Zealand farms, almost entirely for the Chinese market.

Vanguard | 14 Mar 2018
We are grateful that my predecessor took the right initiative – Obaseki

Okomu Oil Palm Company Plc, majority-owned by the Luxembourg-based Socfin group, has commissioned an 11,400 hectare oil palm plantation covering over 10 communities in Nigeria's Edo State.

NZ Farmer | 14 Mar 2018
Alibaba founder Jack Ma visits New Zealand farm investment

China's richest man, Alibaba founder Jack Ma, slipped into New Zealand incognito last month. The founder of the world's largest retailer, which specialises in e-commerce, was in Waikato during Chinese New Year to check out his latest investment.

PRI | 08 Mar 2018
Planting the seeds of change - managing social issues in land investing

The PRI’s webinar Planting the seeds of change: managing social issues in land investing explores why investors should consider land issues and learn about the Reference Guide for Risk Assessment in relation to land.

Licadho | 06 Mar 2018
Koh Kong communities protest sugar land concessions

More than 100 villagers from communities affected by land grabbing in Koh Kong’s Sre Ambel district demonstrated outside a factory owned by Koh Kong Sugar Industry Co. Ltd.

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Ouest France | 20 mar 2018
Foncier: le député Dominique Potier veut des mesures d'urgence

Le député français Dominique Potier est favorable à une loi foncière en 2019 mais à une condition : « des mesures d'urgence doivent être mises en place à court terme ».

FPP | 20 mar 2018
Cameroun, 33eme édition de la Journée internationale de la femme 2018 : Les femmes autochtones des forêts du Cameroun revendiquent leurs droits !

Les femmes autochtones des forêts du Cameroun ont marqué leur présence lors du défilé de la 33eme édition de la journée internationale de la femme à travers les messages de plaidoyer forts concernant leurs droits

CNCD-11.11.11 | 19 mar 2018
Ratifier l’accord de commerce avec la Colombie, le Pérou et l’Equateur ?

L'accord, que le Parlement de Wallonie s’apprête à débattre, risque de renforcer l'accaparement des terres pour la production d'huile de palme pour le marché européen

L'Essentiel | 19 mar 2018
«Ne plus fermer les yeux» sur les multinationales

Treize organisations ont appelé lundi les partis politiques du pays à s'engager pour une législation contraignante pour les multinationales domiciliées au Grand-Duché.

La Tribune Afrique | 19 mar 2018
Tunisie : l'Etat se mobilise pour l'exploitation de ses terres domaniales agricoles

Selon le premier ministre Youssef Chahed, ce programme d'exploitation des terres domaniales agricoles couvrira une superficie totale de 45 mille hectares pour des investissements de plus de 100 millions de dinars.

RFI | 18 mar 2018
Madagascar sur le chemin d’un accaparement de terres ?

A Madagascar, un projet de loi modifié sur les Zones économiques spéciales devrait être voté. La SIF, une plateforme d’organisations paysannes, tente d’alerter les parlementaires sur des articles jugés dommageables pour le pays et leurs habitants.

RFI | 16 mar 2018
Côte d’Ivoire: la bombe à retardement du foncier rural

96% des terres rurales de Côte d’Ivoire ne bénéficient pas de titres fonciers et sont toujours régis par le droit coutumier et par les savoirs locaux.

Agence Ecofin | 15 mar 2018
Zimbabwe : Sub-Sahara Capital annoncée dans un investissement de 1,6 million aux côtés de la société ProDairy

La firme zimbabwéenne ProDairy s’est associée à la firme de capital-investissement Sub-Sahara Capital, basée à New-York, pour développer des pâturages spécialisés

Commodafrica | 15 mar 2018
Le fonds UFF-NAIC investit dans une ferme de 3 500 ha au Nigeria

‪Le fonds pour l’agriculture UFF-NAIC, détenu conjointement par la Nigeria Sovereign Investment Authority et UFF Agri Investment de Old Mutual, a acquis une ferme entièrement intégrée de maïs et de soja à Panda dans l'État de Nasarawa au Nigeria.

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Xinhua | 16 mar 2018
Empresa china lanza construcción de puerto brasileño como principal inversionista

El nuevo puerto debe favorecer la región que forman varios estados del noreste de Brasil (Maranhao, Tocantins, Piauí y Bahía), conocida como Matopiba, y cuyas cadenas de producción deben verse favorecidas con las nuevas instalaciones.

   Events  
Global Donor Working Group on Land | World Bank, Washington DC | 22 Mar 2018
Responsible land-based investment

http://https://www.donorplatform.org/event-land-governance/responsible-land-based-investment.html

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