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24 Apr 2013Shareaction & FOE
On shaky ground: Risks in land investments
The briefing suggests a series of questions for asset owners to pose when considering a land investment either directly or via a shareholding to enable them to make an informed risk assessment.
23 Apr 2013Daily Independent
Ethiopians stormed World Bank in Washington DC
Ethiopians stormed the 17th Street Office complex of the World Bank in Washington DC, protesting the bank’s alleged support for land grab and ethnic cleansing by President Girma Wolde-Giorgis
23 Apr 2013The Water Channel
Good grab, bad grab
With the large and sometimes overexposed attention for land grabbing in Africa, good examples tend to be forgotten
22 Apr 2013Blue & Green Tomorrow
Encouraging pension funds to divest from land grabbing activities
Friends of the Earth is running an ethical pension campaign to encourage investors to ask their providers if they invest in land grabbing activities. Emma Websdale spoke with campaigner Kirtana Chandrasekaran to discuss why it is such an important issue.
22 Apr 2013The Land
UK company defends wheat project claims
Capital Alternatives, which offers investments ranging from holdings in African agriculture to pop memorabilia, claims it can generate returns of more than 20% over five years on West Australian wheat farms.
22 Apr 2013Responsible Investor
Swedish buffer fund AP2 under scrutiny from NGO over Brazilian farmland investments
Sweden’s SEK227.3bn (€26.7bn) state buffer fund Andra AP-fonden (AP2) has been accused of a lack of transparency and snapping up cheap agricultural land in Brazil by campaign group Swedwatch. AP2 denies the allegations.
22 Apr 2013Ghana Web
Ghana: Stop foreigners from taking over our lands - Varsity registrar pleads
The Registrar of the Knutsford University College has filed a suit at the Supreme Court seeking to compel the government to take action to prevent foreigners from taking over the lands of Ghana.
22 Apr 2013ARC2020
Find out more about landgrabbing on our doorsteps
ARC2020 is organising a 10-day EU-wide Speakers’ Tour on Landgrabbing in Romania from 21-30 April
22 Apr 2013TJN et al
Karuturi guilty of tax evasion
The Kenyan government has found Karuturi Global Ltd, the world's biggest producer of cut roses, guilty of tax evasion. This is the first time an African government has brought a large multinational company to court for transfer mispricing through a fully public process.
22 Apr 2013TJN et al
Karuturi: A litany of trouble
Background note to accompany a joint press release on the Kenyan government finding Karuturi Global Ltd guilty of tax evasion
21 Apr 2013Farmers Weekly
Eastern Europe beckons farmland investors
Farmland prices are firming across much of Central and Eastern Europe, as interest from institutional investors -- mainly pension funds -- begins to translate into transactions on the ground.
21 Apr 2013Sudan Tribune
Ethiopian PM rejects land-grab allegations
Ethiopian prime minister Hailemariam Dessalegn has denied that the government is forcing tens of thousands of people off their land in order to lease it to foreign investors.
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