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Press release on Bamba Village shooting incident
In wake of shooting and arrests, ALLAT calls for a moratorium on large scale land acquisitions in Sierra Leone.

Ndiaël : Marche des populations contre Senhuile
Vidéo de la marche des populations contre Senhuile du 21 janvier 2015

Remise en cause des lois foncières et semencières en Afrique
Le lobby qui cherche à industrialiser la production alimentaire en Afrique modifie aussi la législation semencière et foncière pour qu'elle serve les intérêts de l'industrie agroalimentaire.

Leaked report says World Bank violated own rules in Ethiopia
Internal watchdog finds link between World Bank financing and Ethiopian government's mass resettlement of indigenous group

Tanzania: Ministry ordered to recover 3,000ha at Saadani Park
Parliamentary committee orders Ministry of Lands to recover 3,000 hectares of land the latter had sold to a Swedish company - EcoEnergy Ltd in Bagamoyo District, Coast Region.

Itochu, CP in deal to take $10.4 billion stake in Citic
A Japanese trading conglomerate and the holding company of Thailand’s richest person acquire a fifth of Citic Ltd., in one of the biggest foreign investments in a Chinese state-owned company.

Karuturi under the spotlight
Director of agricultural investment at Ethiopia's Ministry of Agriculture says Karuturi is on the verge of collapsing in Ethiopia and that the company "has gone bankrupt following internal management crisis”

Chinese rent over 6 thousand hectares of farmland in Tajikistan
China’s Xinyang Inhai company has rented 6,300 hectares of farmland in the Dangara and Yovon districts of the Khatlon province for cultivation of cotton and cereals.

Palm oil risk to Africa as prospectors eye swaths of land
Forest regions and local livelihoods under threat as palm oil producers looking for new agricultural land are welcomed by African governments

Indian police stop mass protest against land grabs
Police have suppressed a mass protest against Indian government plans to legalize corporate land grabs.

27 Jan 2015WALHI

Indonesia: We reject the palm oil companies because this is our home

A new video from WALHI documents the views of villagers in Bengkulu Province, on the west coast of Sumatra, who are resisting the expansion of palm oil on their lands.

26 Jan 2015The Daily Nation

Flower firm Karuturi goes under the gave

Naivasha-based flower farm Karuturi Ltd — the Kenyan subsidiary of the world’s biggest producer of cut roses — has been put on sale by receiver managers.

23 Jan 2015PLAAS

Can the FAO tenure guidelines stop land and water grabs?

Official implementation of the guidelines, via national governments, has started at a snail’s pace in only several countries, and monitoring systems are yet to be created.

11 Dec 2014	Peru: Olmos irrigation project sparks development debate	SciDevNet
11 Dec 2014	Argentina: Communities protest foreign land grabs in Iberá	Cultural Survival
11 Dec 2014	Africa ‘must rethink approach to agriculture investment’	WSJ
11 Dec 2014	Algeria starts maize production, seeks foreign investors	Reuters
11 Dec 2014	Principes pour un investissement responsable dans l'agriculture	IIDD
11 Dec 2014	Japan Solutions Food lance une usine de transformation de fruits en Egypte	Ecofin
10 Dec 2014	Flash Atelier de lancement Rapport Ndiael	Youtube
10 Dec 2014	European Union agrees to investigate Cambodian sugar industry	Guardian
10 Dec 2014	Mujeres latinoamericanas piden a la COP20 asegurar la alimentación mundial	La República
10 Dec 2014	Medio centenar de gallegos denuncia el acaparamiento de tierras en el PE	El Correo Gallego
10 Dec 2014	Robar alimentos a los que pasan hambre	El Huffington Post
10 Dec 2014	Foreign companies buying Africa's fertile land	World Bulletin
10 Dec 2014	Human Rights Day: “No land, No life”, Land grabbing is a human rights violation	PANAP
10 Dec 2014	Colonizing - and selling - the Ord: an Australian tale with a message	PLECserv
09 Dec 2014	Egypte : deux compagnies émiraties s’associent au gouvernement pour produire du blé dans les régions désertiques	Ecofin
09 Dec 2014	EU to probe sugar disputes	Phnom Penh Post
09 Dec 2014	Cargill may invest $1b in Indonesia over 3 to 4 years with poultry focus	Reuters
09 Dec 2014	Sudan allocates 100,000 acres to Egyptian farmers	Radio Dabanga
09 Dec 2014	The draft land use policy: putting big business first	Mizzima
09 Dec 2014	‘There is no voice of real farmers’	Mizzima

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