The report titled, Unmasking land grabbing in Ghana: restoring livelihoods; paving way for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), narrates how land grabbing is affecting rural livelihoods and threatening food security the country in the long run.
- Vatican Radio
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29 August 2016
Global demand for agricultural land has increased 14-fold since the 2008 spike in global food prices. With that comes increasing cases of land grab, violence, and force eviction. Why every actor that could have prevent that is becoming increasingly powerless to do so.
- Foreign Policy
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11 April 2016
The struggles for land, water, and territory are central to the struggle for Food Sovereignty.
- Via Campesina
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06 April 2016
Japanese groups assess the JICA contracts with the ‘Communications Strategy’ consultants and the ProSAVANA Master Plan (MP) Japanese consultant reports
- No! to Landgrab, Japan
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24 January 2016
Calvin Burgess, chairman of Dominion Farms, has issued a letter denying their involvement in a 30,000 hectare landgrab in Nigeria's Taraba State.
- Dominion Farms
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05 Mar 2015
Agricultural investment, productivity and land rights in the context of large-scale investments
The collusion of local, national and international money and power is more and more legalizing the disowning of people of their lands in the name of economic growth, development or investment.
- Pambazuka
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10 October 2014
Profit maximization for multinationals like Karuturi is bolstered by the fact that borrowing locally is highly profitable.
One of Australia's big banks is facing scrutiny it financed a Cambodian sugar business responsible for forcing almost 500 families off their land.
Since 2007, a plantation company had been scheming to take over more than three-quarters of the Indigenous islanders’ ancestral land in the Aru islands of Indonesia.
- Interconintental Cry
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21 April 2014
Sunny Ajele, talks about how life for the communities in Edo State Nigeria has changed with the expansion of the oil palm plantations by a SOCFIN subsidiary
Background document accompanying the 14 February 2014 media release issued by Tax Justice Network, GRAIN, Anywaa Survival Organisation, Forum Syd Kenya and the South Indian Coordination Committee of Farmers Movements.
- TJN et al
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14 February 2014
That palm oil listed in the ingredients of your favorite candy bar or lipstick? More and more of it comes from forest and farmland razed by multinational corporations a world away.
- On Earth
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04 December 2013
DFID documents reveal that, despite denials of funding forced relocations, British cash pays salaries of officials implementing the Ethiopian government's 'villagisation' programme.
A visit to Mozambique dispels any notion that big business is going to ‘feed Africa’. Hazel Healy reports on a land rush in full swing.
- New Internationalist
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06 May 2013
With 6 million hectares earmarked for agricultural commercialization, notably rubber plantations, millions of Burmese have been or stand to be dispossessed of land.
Thousands of Ethiopians are being relocated or have already fled as their land is sold off to foreign investors without their consent.
- Guardian
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07 February 2013
La Via Campesina calls on all of its members and allies to organize actions around the world on April 17 to display massive popular resistance to land grabbing and highlight the struggle against corporate control over land and natural resources.
- Via Campesina
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02 Mar 2012
The US-based AgriSol Company has landed another lucrative land deal involving 10,000 hectres amid growing public outcry about the recent land deals sealed by the company in Rukwa region.
- IPP Media
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12 December 2011
The US-based AgriSol Company has landed another lucrative land deal involving 10,000 hectres amid growing public outcry about the recent land deals sealed by the company in Rukwa region.
- Guardian
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11 December 2011
Fear of unrest and hunger for profit are sparking massive acquisitions of farmland.
- In These Times
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22 August 2011
At the III International Islamic Business and Finance Summit in Tatarstan, Russia representatives of Saudi Arabia's Foras Investments requested 10,000 ha of land in Tatarstan for agricultural projects.
Ram Karuturi says he is targeting to acquire up to a million hectares of land in Ethiopia and other parts of Africa to build an integrated global agri-product company.
- Financial Express
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24 May 2011
"In the age of derivatives and evaporating valuations, farmland is gold with a cash flow."
US government cable discusses 24 January 2010 meeting organised by Swiss Development Corporation, UN Food and Agriculture Organization and International Fund for Agricultural Investment on "Land, Investment, and Development," attended by many of the key players working on responsible international agro-industrial and land investment principles
- Wikileaks
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04 February 2010
The global food crisis has prompted various rich countries to start buying up land in the poorer world to secure their food supplies. As well as affecting domestic food supplies in the countries affected, Sue Branford says it could be a time bomb for the world’s ability to cope with climate change
- Red Pepper
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07 November 2009
“Our people have already surveyed several areas to choose the right place for planting basmati rice. The investment will be huge,” says Ambassador Khayyat.
- Jakarta Post
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30 September 2009
In June 2009, the Indian company Karuturi took up intensive farming in Ethiopia. The harvest will be exported to Asia and Europe.
- L'Hebdo
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03 September 2009
It's a tsunami of land deals and, as all of the experts who have studied the phenomenon have agreed, no nation is truly prepared for its implications.
- CounterCurrents
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17 June 2009
THE overthrow of Madagascar’s president in mid-March was partly caused by water problems — in South Korea.
- The Economist
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08 April 2009