Ethiopian farmer takes UK to court over 'brutal' resettlement policy
- Guardian
- 15 July 2014
Legal battle launched after man claims he was evicted from his farm and beaten under villagisation scheme funded by UK aid
Legal battle launched after man claims he was evicted from his farm and beaten under villagisation scheme funded by UK aid
Phoenix Africa CEO Paddy Docherty interviewed by the FT This is Africa, about frontier investing in Africa.
UK pensions funds and asset management companies potentially have up to £37 billion invested in ‘land grabs’ worldwide, according to a report published by Friends of the Earth.
Lord Sainsbury’s new investment company, called Msingi, will support the establishment of new companies in East Africa in key sectors like agriculture.
Une communauté au Libéria lutte pour garder ses terres. Une entreprise anglaise d’huile de palme veut en prendre possession sans en avoir la permission.
Indonesian court helps to tear aside the veil of secrecy under which huge corporations operate in UK-linked tax havens
UK's Co-operative Group wants a single major corporate buyer for its portfolio of 15 British farms covering 17,000 hectares, and will not consider community buyouts.
Farmland is now one of the UK’s greatest money makers. In 2013, overseas buyers accounted for 8% of UK farmland sales.
Des villageois ont fait reculer de puissantes multinationales, et cela se passe au Liberia.
African Land Limited sold itself on the back of a promise that its rice farms in Sierra Leone could turn “a tidy profit of 15% a year”.
The UK’s business ambassador for agriculture and CEO of large-scale agriculture firm Velcourt Group, James Townshend, met with Burmese government officials and toured agricultural projects in the country.
On January 22 a comprehensive database on land and resource governance programmes funded by members of the Global Donor Working Group on Land will be presented during the AGA in Paris.