The memorandum calls for establishing a major logistics corridor consisting of 30 facilities, including a grain terminal and 29 elevators in various parts of Russia to support shipments.
New GRAIN study finds changed conditions in international “land grabs.”
- Circle of Blue
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24 June 2016
Duncan Pruett reflects on the last 5 years at work advocating on the issues of land rights and foreign investments in agriculture.
- Landportal.info
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24 June 2016
Final report from the III Assembly of Indigenous Peoples of Goias and Tocantins, Brazil, 20-23 June 2016
Un collectif sénégalais entame le combat contre SEN INDIA qui a pris 5000 ha pour faire de la pomme de terre et la pastèque et veut délocaliser les villageois.
Wall Street remains enamored with US and international farmland, speakers at a Farm Foundation meeting in Louisville said last week.
- Progressive Farmer
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14 June 2016
Industrial agriculture and financial sectors are hand-in-hand worsening climate change and then profiting from it, with an unprecedented number of land grabs over the last eight years.
Global investors have spent more than $90 billion buying agricultural lands the size of Finland in deals criticized by rights groups for displacing small farmers, according to research published on Tuesday.
While 'food security-driven land grabbing' has subsided in recent years, 'plain old profit-driven agribusiness expansion is now the dominant agenda'.
- Common Dreams
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14 June 2016
Eight years after releasing its first report on land grabbing, GRAIN publishes a new dataset documenting nearly 500 cases of land grabbing around the world.
IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, will provide a debt financing package to Astarta, a leading agricultural producer, as part of broader efforts to support Ukraine's farming sector and spur economic development in the country.
Glencore Plc agreed to sell just-under a 10 percent stake in its agriculture unit to Canada’s British Columbia Investment Management Corp. for $624.9 million in cash as it continues to cut debt.
From late April to late May several public events were attended by between 1,000 and 2,000 people across the country
The prime target markets for China National Cereals, Oils and Foodstuffs Corp are the South and North Americas, and areas along the Black Sea in Europe.
More dissenting voices are being raised in West and Central African countries, as local communities and NGOs condemn land grabbing by industrial oil palm and rubber plantations company Socfin
Quelque 400 porteurs d’actions étaient attendus et se sont vus empêcher l’accès à la tour par les manifestants qui dénonçaient l'accaparement des terres
Plusieurs dizaines de militants dénonçant l'accaparement de terres en Afrique et en Asie par une holding dont Bolloré est actionnaire perturbaient vendredi les arrivées à l'assemblée générale du groupe, à Puteaux, près de Paris.<<
Vendredi 3 juin, des ressortissants africains, des associations et des syndicats perturbent l’assemblée générale du groupe Bolloré à Puteaux.
On Friday 3 June, African citizens, organisations and unions will disrupt the shareholder meeting of the Bolloré group at its headquarters in Puteaux, just outside of Paris, France.
Op woensdag 1juni uur hebben burgers en vertegenwoordigers van Belgische, Franse en Luxemburgse organisaties de aandeelhouders van de Belgisch-Luxemburgse groep SOCFIN aangesproken tijdens de Algemene Vergadering.
- FIAN Belgium et al
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01 June 2016
Ce mercredi 1 juin, des citoyens et représentants d’organisations belges, françaises et luxembourgeoises ont interpellé les actionnaires du groupe belgo-luxembourgeois SOCFIN lors de son Assemblée générale.
- FIAN Belgium et al
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01 June 2016
On June 1, citizens and representatives of Belgian, French and Luxembourgish organisations are calling out to the shareholders of SOCFIN, a Belgian-Luxembourgish group, during their annual meeting.
- FIAN Belgium et al
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01 June 2016
Un nuevo video muestra que las mujeres rurales en África occidental están empeñadas en proteger la producción de aceite de palma tradicional frente a la expansión de las plantaciones industriales de palma.
State-backed Russia Direct Investment Fund announced plans on Wednesday to sign an agreement with Thailand's Charoen Pokphand Group on joint investments in the construction of a $1 billion milk and dairy complex in the Ryazan region of Russia.
Les paysannes en Afrique de l’Ouest travaillent pour protéger la production traditionnelle d’huile de palme face aux accaparements de terres et à l'impact destructeur des plantations industrielles de palmiers à huile.
New video shows how rural women in West Africa are working to protect traditional palm oil production in the face of land grabbing by industrial oil palm plantations.
Empresas que se instalaram em Moçambique através de projetos exportados pelo Brasil avançam sobre as terras dos camponeses enquanto o país, em crise, se afasta dos programas de cooperação.
La compra de tierras agrícolas en África o Asia resultó un negocio decepcionante y los inversores miran ahora hacia países ricos como Australia, Francia o Estados Unidos.
- Yahoo Finanzas
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05 May 2016
La ruée sur les terres agricoles d'Afrique ou d'Asie a généré beaucoup d'espérances déçues pour les investisseurs qui ciblent désormais des horizons moins risqués, de l'Australie à la Californie en passant par la France.
Denmark’s AP Pension is expanding its exposure to agricultural land in a proposed new deal to buy farmland in eastern Romania and lease it back to the Danish company operating farms on the land.