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12 Sep 2019
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An online consultation on the UNIDROIT/FAO/IFAD Agricultural Land Investment Contracts Zero Draft is open from 1 June until 30 September 2019.
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Big promises, few results: Chinese farms falter in Uganda CSM | 11 Sep 2019
The view of Chinese agricultural investments in Africa from Luwero, Uganda, where there are two different Chinese-owned farms, is one of inaction and incompetence.
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Kazakhstan: UAE-based company to invest in 1000-hectare orchards in Almaty region TCA | 11 Sep 2019
Phoenix Global DMCС, a transnational company based in Dubai (UAE), will invest in the project for orchards development with a total area of 1,000 hectares in Kazakhstan’s Almaty region.
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FoEA Solidarity visit and message to Joegbahn Clan Community in Liberia FoEA | 11 Sep 2019
Friends of the Earth Africa member groups visit the Joegbahn clan community in Liberia, which is facing threats from the Equatorial Oil Palm (EPO) Company to cede their remaining land to allow the company to expand its plantations.
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Respect and protect the Mekong people’s rights to land and resources: A call for support Mekong Solidarity | 11 Sep 2019
Threats of and actual displacements of rural communities in the Mekong have been on the rise amid increasing land deals for corporate plantations, mining, logging, biofuels, food crops for exports.
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Ukraine president plans land reform, large privatisations Reuters | 10 Sep 2019
Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy says he wants parliament to adopt a law on the agricultural land market and lift the moratorium on the sale of land by December 1, 2019.
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Dutch ag pension to divest stake in ag investment fund Fagoed GAI | 06 Sep 2019
BPL, the Dutch pension fund for the Netherland’s agricultural and green sectors, is planning to divest its stake in Fagoed, a €140 million fund invested in agricultural land.
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Law and political economy of commodity rushes: Reflections on “land grabbing” in the Global South Law and Political Economy | 05 Sep 2019
Law plays a key role in shifting control over the world’s natural resources, including agricultural land.
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Zambian agribusiness firm to invest US$200m in a palm oil project FBA | 05 Sep 2019
Consolidated Farming Limited, subsidiary of Sable group, will be investing US$200 million in setting up a large-scale palm oil project, with a 10,000 ha anchor farm and an out-grower scheme.
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China brings 80 investors to Tanzania All Africa | 02 Sep 2019
An 80-member business delegation from China's Shandong Province will arrive in Tanzania to look on how to scale up agriculture export and import trading in the area of agriculture equipment and products.They will exchange views on motor vehicle- new and used, aquatic products, marine culture industry, fishery, as well as livestock industry.
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As the Amazon burns, students call on Harvard to divest from farmland holdings The Crimson | 29 Aug 2019
As the Amazon rainforest continues to burn, members of Divest Harvard — a student group demanding the University divest from fossil fuels — are renewing their calls on Harvard to withdraw its holdings in farmland across the globe, including in Brazil.
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The man who's burning the Amazon Bad News | 29 Aug 2019
Blackstone, owned by a top US Republican party donor, has launched two funds dedicated to buying farmland in Brazil that work with Brazilian companies to get around laws restricting direct foreign ownership.
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Cameroon peasants criticize large companies Jiji | 28 Aug 2019
Emmanuel Elong, a farmer from Cameroon, criticized land grabbing by foreign companies at a side event during the 7th African Development Conference (TICAD7) in Yokohama City.
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Brothers build multi-million mixed farm in Masindi Daily Monitor | 11 Aug 2019
US Ambassador visits large-scale farm of Asili Farms, a US owned-company farming maize and oilseed on 13,500 acres in Uganda.
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Uganda: Masindi court declines to halt a forceful and ciolent eviction of 2,300 families of their land Witness Radio | 04 Apr 2019
An independent investigation by witnessradio.org indicates that the foreign-owned agribusiness company Agilis Partners wants to use the 2100 hectares to grow soybeans and other crops.
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The colonial empire of Japan and the origins of the ProSavana agricultural project in Mozambique DW | 20 Nov 2018
At the Triangular People's Conference on ProSavana in Tokyo, Japanese researcher Sayaka Funada-Classen explains how this agricultural megaproject in northern Mozambique follows Japan's historical model.
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UK's DFID funded company involved in forced land eviction in Kiryandongo District witnessradio.org | 22 Mar 2018
Jospeh Initiative limited, a company funded by United Kingdom’s Department for International Development (DFID) is grabbing about 2000 hectares and forcefully evicting over 2300 families off their land in Uganda
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Au Congo, l’autre poumon vert de la planète peine aussi à respirer Le Soir | 07 sep 2019
Alors que l’Amazonie brûle, la forêt du bassin du Congo est consumée par d’autres flammes : celles de la convoitise terrienne et de l’explosion démographique.
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Congo-Brazzaville – Henri Djombo : « Nos terres sont là, disponibles » Jeune Afrique | 05 sep 2019
Le ministre d’État chargé de l’Agriculture, de l’Élevage et de la Pêche du Congo dit que son pays est sollicité par une société chinoise qui souhaite exploiter 300 000 ha avec des cultures industrielles afin d’alimenter les marchés régionaux chinois
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À Montréal, écologistes et défenseurs des droits autochtones disent à Bolsonaro de dégager Le Devoir | 29 aout 2019
Plusieurs investisseurs internationaux présents au Brésil contribuent à une gestion des terres non durable et bafouent les droits de la personne, notamment La Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec (CDPQ).
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Conalcam culpa a menonitas y brasileros por "desmonte a costa de la vida" Opinión | 10 sep 2019
“Denunciamos que la extranjerización de la tierra en manos de menonitas y brasileros es la que ha traído esa lógica industrial que hoy provoca el desmonte a costa de la vida y que los intentos de culpar a las comunidades ocultan que más del 90 por ciento de las tierras en desmonte en el país terminan en manos empresariales y no de comunidades”
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Las consecuencias de la deforestación en la Amazonia colombiana Canal RCN | 07 sep 2019
Más de 98 mil hectáreas ha caído en esta zona del país en manos de acaparadores de tierras, ganaderos, cultivadores de coca y constructores de nuevas vías.
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日本のＯＤＡに現地から「ＮＯ！」 TBS News | 10 Sep 2019
「最後の巨大マーケット」と言われるアフリカ。日本政府は民間投資の拡大などに力を入れていますが、現地では日本が後押しする大規模な農業開発への根強い反発が続いています。何が起きているのでしょうか。
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