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Position statement: Agro-industries
- Standard Chartered
- 25 October 2018
Effective March 2019 Standard Chartered has new rules related to its financial services activity in the area of agribsuiness
Responsible farmland investing? Current efforts to regulate land grabs will make things worse
- GRAIN
- 22 August 2012
From the World Bank to pension funds, efforts are under way to regulate land grabs through the creation of codes and standards. Rather than help financial and corporate elites to "responsibly invest" in farmland, we need them to stop and divest.
Much tilling without harvest
- Zawya
- 16 April 2009
Essentially, the Middle East is left with two choices. “The region has to import. The question is, invest abroad or rely on the free market?” said Dr Eckart Woertz, program manager in economics at the Gulf Research Center in Dubai.
Africa-ME 'agricultural tie-up ideal'
- Trade Arabia
- 22 July 2010
Africa's untapped agriculture potential make it an ideal partner for resource-constrained Middle Eastern countries that seek to improve their food security, a new report from Standard Chartered Bank said.
Turning African farmland over to big business: The US’s Millennium Challenge Corporation
- GRAIN
- 30 April 2010
MCC is playing a key role in commodifying Africa’s farmlands
Indonesia taken to task over MIFEE
- Down to Earth
- 30 November 2011
The following report, by independent researcher Anna Bolin, explores the global trends and influences at work behind agriculture mega-projects like MIFEE in Papua.
The digitalisation of land: more data, less land
- GRAIN
- 15 April 2022
The digitalisation of information on land and natural resources is exacerbating land grabbing in the remaining agricultural frontiers of Latin America.
Karuturi poursuit son déclin
- TJN et al
- 13 October 2014
La multinationale indienne qui s'était fait un nom dans le secteur des fleurs coupées au niveau mondial et a récemment acquis plus de 300 000 ha en Éthiopie pour produire des denrées alimentaires à destination des marchés étrangers, poursuit son déclin douloureux et généralisé.
Harvard and TIAA's farmland grab in Brazil goes up in smoke
- FOE US, GRAIN,NFFC, Rede Social
- 22 October 2019
Satellite maps show the connection between Harvard and TIAA's farmland acquisitions in Brazil's Cerrado and the massive number of fires that have been burning in the region since July of this year.
Land grabs & the Canadian connection
- Watershed Sentinel
- 07 Mar 2013
Land grabs in Canada have not been well-documented. Provinces do not keep inventory on large-scale land acquisitions. This blind eye approach has some people, particularly farmers, worried.
Secret Acres: Foreign-owned agricultural land inaccurately tracked by government
- Investigate TV
- 26 January 2022
Despite a federal law requiring foreign transactions of agricultural land be reported to and recorded by the government, the US Department of Agriculture’s database appears to be missing significant acres of land.
The 'change we need'? Obama in Ghana
- Pambazuka
- 09 July 2009
A focus on agricultural productivity should not become a cover for foreign private companies to grab land or impose expensive, input-intensive methods in the name of modernisation.
Foreign energy policy fuels famine in Africa
- Pambazuka
- 09 December 2011
Oakland Institute speaks about the findings of their latest round of in-depth research into land grabs in Africa.
Land grabbing by agribusiness also claims lives in Latin America
- GRAIN
- 06 Mar 2020
Cresud controls 370,000 ha in the province of Salta, in the ancestral lands of the Wichi people, where, in the first months of 2020, nine children died from malnutrition and lack of water.
Firm shows how to `farm at end of a long dirt road`
- IPP Media
- 16 June 2011
Kilombero Plantations Limited chief executive officer Carter Coleman talks about his company's large-scale farming operations in Tanzania, including the removal of the "Project Affected Persons" previously farming the lands.