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05 Dec 2019
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Canadian pension fund loads up on Australian water rights and almond farms SMH | 03 Dec 2019
A Canadian pension fund has bought a huge parcel of Australian permanent water rights for $490M to irrigate almond trees, in a move that puts the spotlight on foreign ownership of farms and water resources as drought ravages the country.
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Fast food suppliers importing deforestation and violence from Brazil Greenpeace | 03 Dec 2019
Mega-traders Cargill and Bunge are exporting soya from an agricultural estate in Brazil with a long record of violence, illegality, and environmental destruction, a Greenpeace International investigation has uncovered
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'Not in national interest': Ministers block foreigners from buying 4500ha of farmland NZ Herald | 02 Dec 2019
In a rare rejection of New Zealand's Overseas Investment Office application, Canadians have been barred from buying more than 4500ha of South Island farmland.
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Liberia: Regional oil palm stakeholders call for community inclusion in natural resource governance Front Page Africa | 02 Dec 2019
Stakeholders attending a two-day regional dialogue on oil palm development in West Africa have called for the inclusion of local communities in oil palm development in the sub-region.
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New EADI Webinar: This land is your land, this land is my land? (Dec 12) EADI | 02 Dec 2019
Sylvia Kay and Attila Szocs will discuss their research and activism on land grabbing, with a particular focus on Romania, and the implications for political struggles over land and territories.
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Indigenous Colombians escalate fight to rescue ancestral lands Truthout | 01 Dec 2019
The Nasa of Colombia are carrying out direct actions in which they cut down cane fields, plant organic crops in their place, and allow the native vegetation to cover additional areas within the same reclaimed lands.
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Chinese company to build UGX.1.6 trillion fish breeding centre in Uganda PML Daily | 01 Dec 2019
Hainan Qinfu Foods Company Limited from China is looking for 5,000 acres of land to invest a total of $450m in a specialized aquaculture industrial park.
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Kratie resolves Memot Rubber Plantation land dispute in Snuol Khmer Times | 28 Nov 2019
Kratie provincial authorities have resolved a land dispute between more than 1,800 families and the Memot Rubber Plantation Company in Snuol district’s Pi Thnou commune.
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Brazil investigates agribusiness bribes to judges for favorable land rulings Mongabay | 27 Nov 2019
Brazil’s Federal Police have launched an investigation, dubbed “Operation Far West,” to crack down on an alleged massive land grab by an agribusiness collective in western Bahia, one of Brazil’s largest soy producing regions.
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Land grabbing a growing concern as climate change threatens food production Rabble.ca | 27 Nov 2019
A century of ever-increasing farm size and land concentration is now leading Canada into a new era of speculation on farmland -- one where private companies not traditionally involved in agriculture are acquiring tracks of land.
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Philippines: Environment chief sued for allowing 'illegal' operation of coffee plantation CNN | 15 Nov 2019
An indigenous people's group on Friday filed a case against Environment Secretary Roy Cimatu for neglect of duty, saying he did not block the "illegal" operation of a coffee plantation in ancestral land.
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Leading African food investment Africa Global Funds | 07 Nov 2019
Interview with Phatisa CIO
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Liberia: EPO wants to expand its Palm Bay Estate plantations into forests in Grand Bassa SDI | 29 Oct 2019
Several communities say that Equatorial Palm Oil is continuously intimidating, threatening and dividing communities into signing away their land.
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Un fonds de pension canadien se dote de droits sur l'eau en Australie et de fermes d'amandiers Jambon Burst | 03 dec 2019
Olam a déclaré avoir signé un accord de partage des revenus avec Investissements PSP pour les vergers d'amandiers, les actifs associés et les droits d'utilisation de l'eau en Australie
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« Il nous a été demandé de ne plus nous rendre dans la forêt. » Greenpeace | 25 nov 2019
Une enquête de Greenpeace met en lumière les violations des droits humains par Halcyon Agri.
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【記事翻訳】The Economist誌でのプロサバンナ特集 | 30 Nov 2019
The Economist誌でプロサバンナ特集がありました。
以下のリンクから原文をご覧いただけます。
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EADI Webinar: This land is your land, this land is my land?
EADI | | 12 Dec 2019
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