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ABC | 13 Apr 2016
The chairman of Australia's Foreign Investment Review Board has likened his role to walking a barbed-wire tightrope, as he attempts to balance the interests of investors and the need for capital with community concern about foreign sales. |
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National | 13 Apr 2016
President Jinping offered $15 million agricultural assistance to Nigeria for the establishment of 50 Agricultural Demonstration Farms across the country. |
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Angola Press | 12 Apr 2016
Over 20,000 hectares of land have been made available for national and foreign entrepreneurs interested in investing in the agricultural sector in Angola's Matala Municipality, where a Dutch company is pursuing a large-scale potato farming project. |
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EurActiv | 12 Apr 2016
A Chinese company has acquired hundreds of hectares of cereal-producing farmland in central France. This unprecedented situation has provoked astonishment and anger in the farming community. |
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Antara | 12 Apr 2016
Indonesia's Agriculture Minister says his government will allocate two million hectares of land for cattle and maize and sugarcane plantations under the investment deal with Denmark. |
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Pulse | 12 Apr 2016
According to the state government, Sokoto has signed a memorandum of understanding with Henan Province of China for the establishment of a demonstration farm and boosting of agriculture in the state. |
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Romania Insider | 12 Apr 2016
Individuals and companies have bought about 9,000 hectares of arable land in Romania’s Arad county in the last 12 months, seven times more compared to the previous year. |
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Oakland Institute | 12 Apr 2016
World Bank accountability on forced resettlements resulting from its programs must be front and center at its spring meetings, taking place this week in Washington DC |
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Foreign Policy | 11 Apr 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. |
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ABC | 11 Apr 2016
The push to buy Australian farmland and buy into agribusinesses continues to grow, with one report showing an overall jump of $1.9 billion in proposed agricultural investment, year-on-year. |
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Amwal Alghad | 09 Apr 2016
Saudi-based Al Rajhi International for Investment company targets injecting 1.2 billion Egyptian pounds (US$135 million) to reclaim 75,000 feddans in Egypt's Toshka project until 2020. |
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AFR | 08 Apr 2016
Chinese investors will spend nearly $2.5 billion in agriculture and $1.7 billion in financial assets. In 2014, those were numbers were $32 million and $51 million respectively. |
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Mongabay | 08 Apr 2016
Conflict between Cameroonian communities and an American agribusiness company reveals problems in how palm oil is expanding across the country. |
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TerraProject | 07 Apr 2016
Since 2012, TerraProject, a documentary photography collective based in Italy, has been producing the first global visual investigation on land investments. They now issue the first photographic book on land issues by TerraProject (photographs) and Cécile Cazenave (journalist). |
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Vientiane Times | 07 Apr 2016
More than 100 companies both local and overseas have registered for land concessions on state land in Champassak, Laos. |
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The Nation | 04 Apr 2016
A Chinese-owned firm operating banana plantations has caused a water conflict in Chiang Rai's Phaya Meng Rai district. |
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