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Land Portal | 21 Sep 2016
Inclusive approach in concert with Mekong region partners forges unprecedented access to data and information on land |
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china.org.cn | 21 Sep 2016
The China Council for the Promotion of International Trade (CCPIT) signed a memorandum of understanding on strengthening a partnership to help the Chinese agriculture industry go global in Beijing on Tuesday. China has invested a total of US$7.18 billion in overseas agricultural projects. |
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Farm Weekly | 21 Sep 2016
In its second swoop on prime northern NSW cattle country this year, Chinese-owned pastoral business, Rifa Salutary, has snapped up another two aggregations for an estimated $55 million. |
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The Jakarta Post | 20 Sep 2016
China has expressed its interest in bringing its private firms to invest in agriculture in areas in the border region of Kalimantan, Indonesia, a top official said on Monday. |
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The Citizen | 20 Sep 2016
Is there such a thing as "responsible large-scale investment in land and agriculture"? asks Prof Marjorie Mbilinyi. |
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RFA | 20 Sep 2016
Laos’s Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment has estimated that government officials have given more than one million hectares of the country’s total land area of 23.7 million hectares as concessions to foreign investors |
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Phnom Penh Post | 19 Sep 2016
A new paper from the International Criminal Court laying out a shift in focus to crimes linked to environmental destruction and the unlawful dispossession of land has rekindled the debate over whether the court will launch an investigation into a case highlighting land-grabbing in Cambodia. |
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Marketplace | 19 Sep 2016
In the Berry, the heart of French cereal farming in the center of the country, Chinese buyers have been purchasing farmland in order to assure food supplies for their growing population. |
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SeeNews | 19 Sep 2016
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development is lending five million euro to Bulgaria's Elana Agrocredit, a company offering long-term financial lease contracts to farmers seeking to acquire agricultural land. |
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Guardian | 16 Sep 2016
In change of focus, Hague court will prosecute government and individuals for environmental crimes such as landgrabs |
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The Star | 15 Sep 2016
The process of selling off the largest flower farm in Naivasha, Karuturi, has kicked off, with a new liquidator moving in. |
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Mongabay | 14 Sep 2016
Liberia has long been plagued by disputes over land for farming and forestry including double land sales, corporate land grabbing, local disputes over territory, and equal gender access to land. |
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TNI | 09 Sep 2016
Frontline communities and social movements around the world explain why we need to keep our hands on the land for food sovereignty and climate justice! |
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PANAP | 07 Sep 2016
Regional advocacy group PAN Asia Pacific (PANAP) joins Filipino peasant groups in condemning the recent killing of four farmers in a military reservation that is the subject of a land conflict. |
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AFR | 04 Sep 2016
US giant TIAA's Westchester has purchased a major part of northern NSW cropping farm Milton Downs from Australia's biggest wheat grower Greentree Farming for a figure some estimate to be in the vicinity of $50 million. |
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Oakland Institute | 02 Sep 2016
Senegalese agro-pastoralists are striking wins against Senhuile SA, a foreign-owned agribusiness company established in Ndiaël, Saint-Louis Region of Senegal. |
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Pulse | 02 Sep 2016
Milltrust has a 10 year, billion dollar program to establish farms in the southern hemisphere to produce rice, wheat, corn and barley, as well as new cash crops that will provide feedstock for animals. |
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AllAboutFeed | 02 Sep 2016
Last June, Dutch animal feed company De Heus started the construction of a demonstration farm for 400 sows and 800 fattening pigs in Vietnam. |
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Nyasa Times | 02 Sep 2016
The Peoples Land Organisation seeks the local people’s occupation of all idle tea estates land, as well as reparations for the years since 1914 that estates owners occupied the lands and engaged in bonded labour practices.
The organisation has also been demanding from the estates owners a wage rate of £6.13 per hour (about K5 000) per individual for those who were involved in Thangata (bonded labour) between 1914 and 1963.
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Action Aid | 01 Sep 2016
Last month people in Yala Swamp in Kenya won a court decision against Dominion Farms, a company from the United States, which has been grabbing their land since 2003. |
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Guardian | 01 Sep 2016
A Korean palm oil company has been dropped by buyers after footage emerged that allegedly shows the illegal burning of vast tracts of tropical forest on lands it holds concessions for in Indonesia. |
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Bloomberg | 01 Sep 2016
A Dutch-run flower farm in northern Ethiopia was among a series of foreign-owned plantations attacked by anti-government protesters as unrest in the country spreads. |
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Today | 25 Aug 2016
A Chinese firm, Wuhan Longfecund Agricultural Development Company Ltd., has concluded plans to set up a feed mill and maize farm in Cross River State, Nigeria. |
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ZBT | 21 Jul 2016
AgDevCo’s investment of $3.9m will be used to establish irrigation (250ha) and power. |
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