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02 Apr 2020
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Ukraine passes IMF-backed land reform bill, social cuts as coronavirus spreads World Socialist | 01 Apr 2020
A law to privatise farmland, ultimately for the benefit of global finance and agribusiness, was pushed through Parliament under pressure from the IMF in the context of the coronavirus crisis.
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Australia: Foreigners face extra FIRB hurdles buying farms during virus emergency Register | 31 Mar 2020
Foreign buyers stepping into the rural property or agribusiness sector will have to negotiate new regulatory hurdles aimed at preventing a rush of opportunistic offshore-based takeovers during the coronavirus emergency.
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Two MPs block signing of Ukrainian farmland market bill UNIAN | 31 Mar 2020
Two Ukrainian legislators have blocked the signing of the law lifting the long-standing ban on farmland sales, which was voted overnight Tuesday in a bid to unblock IMF funding.
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Ukraine opens up land market in bid for $8 billion IMF package Reuters | 31 Mar 2020
Ukrainian lawmakers voted on Tuesday to lift a ban on the sale of farmland that has stood for nearly two decades, clearing one of the hurdles needed to unlock an $8 billion loan package from the International Monetary Fund.
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Interview with Mrs Marie Noelle ETONDE, SYNAPARCAM (Cameroun) Landcam | 30 Mar 2020
In Cameroon, women are the ones who bring food home, and when there is enough, we sell it. The income allows us to meet other needs. Today, we no longer have this possibility because of the agro-industries, like SOCAPALM
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Ukraine's land market bill: amended draft limits purchases to 100 ha per buyer UNIAN | 30 Mar 2020
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky's Office says they have amended the farmland market bill to limit land purchases per person to 100 ha and delay allowing legal entities to purchase lands of up to 10,000 ha until 2024
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As COVID-19 crisis rages, 119 groups from 30 countries push urgent demands for rural peoples PCFS Global | 30 Mar 2020
Statement makes five demands to protect the rights of rural people amid the pandemic, including no further displacements of people from their lands under the pretext of COVID-19 lockdowns.
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Position statement by women living in the vicinity of agro-industries on the respect of their land rights LandCam | 30 Mar 2020
Women living in the vicinity of eight agro-industrial plantations in Cameroon - HEVECAM, SUDCAM, SOCAPALM, PHP, BIOPALM, SEMRY, RUBBERCAM and SOSUCAM - gathered to discuss the impacts of agro-industrial plantations on women's land rights.
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Kidnapping, torture, and stolen land: The brutal reality of Ethiopia's new sugar wars VICE | 27 Mar 2020
Ethiopia's Mursi tribe says they were imprisoned and tortured to protect Chinese sugar plantations.
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Uganda: Multinationals are using violence as a weapon in the Covid-19 lockdown to dispossess communities witnessradio.org | 26 Mar 2020
As Uganda begins a 32 day COVID – 19 lockdown, multinational companies dispossessing more than 35000 natives off their land, have resorted to the use of violence to grab land for poor communities.
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Hungary held liable for expropriating the investment of a British investor and ordered to pay EUR 7 million in compensation for damages IISD | 10 Mar 2020
On November 13, 2019, an ICSID tribunal ordered Hungary to pay damages to a British investor in compensation for its breach of the Hungary–United Kingdom BIT.
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Local firm exports first batch of bananas to China bizhub | 02 Jan 2020
Vietnam's HAGL Agrico, which has 18,000ha of agricultural land worth about US$400 million in Ratanakiri province northeast Cambodia, has shipped its first batch of fresh bananas from its Cambodia plant to China
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Duxton Asset Management and its investment in Tanzanian rice farming | 31 Dec 2013
Case study of Duxton Asset Management's planned investment in Kapunga Rice Farm in Tanzania
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L’Ukraine lève le moratoire sur la vente des terres agricoles contre l’aide du FMI Donbass Insider | 31 mar 2020
Dans la nuit du 30 au 31 mars 2020, la Rada a voté la levée du moratoire sur la vente des terres agricoles afin que l’Ukraine puisse potentiellement recevoir une nouvelle tranche d’aide financière du FMI et éviter le défaut de paiement.
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L'Ukraine adopte une réforme foncière "historique" pour obtenir l'aide du FMI Belga | 31 mar 2020
Le parlement ukrainien a définitivement voté dans la nuit de lundi à mardi une loi autorisant la vente de ses fertiles terres agricoles, notamment à leurs exploitants, une condition clé pour le déblocage d'une aide financière du FMI.
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L’Ukraine craint la faillite du pays, dont l’économie va plonger Capital.fr | 30 mar 2020
Kiev pourrait tomber en défaut de paiement si le gouvernement ne reçoit pas une aide financière du Fonds monétaire international pour laquelle la privatisation des terres agricoles est exigée
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