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A resident of Boeung Kak Lake cries during a protest in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Sept 4, 2013. The protesters, mostly women from the Boeung Kak community, called for a fair resolution to what they see as land grabs. They also were appealing for the release of jailed activist Yorm Bopha. (Photo: Samrang Pring/Reuters)
"The ideal on the horizon is that at some point the world will agree on an ISO standard on what good global [land] governance is," says Iris Krebber of DFID.
Huishan Dairy, one of China's largest dairy operators, has received commitments worth $220 million from three cornerstone investors -Norway's Norges Bank, Yili Group and Cofco Agricultural Industry Management - to expand its herd of cows. Above, dairy cows waiting to be milked in Hebei Province. (Photo:
Nelson Ching/Bloomberg News)
Suri boys at the entrance of the Koka Malaysian plantation, Omo valley, which is run by Lim Siow Jin estate. (Photo: Alamy)
The Karuturi Farm directors who had flown in to Kenya from India kept off the venue of the meeting due to the anger of union officials and the farm workers, reports The Star (Aug 2013)
"Il n'y a plus de place pour nous, 6.550 ha sans possibilité de déplacement ne peuvent pas être une solution," vocifère Daara Sow, le chef du village, qui rajoute que "même si on déménage ailleurs, on ne peut pas déménager nos morts. Et la compagnie est en train de cultiver sur le cimitière de la communauté."
IUF says Colombia's nationwide protest "is currently the most broadly based challenge to the global neo-liberal project." Above, protests in Sincelejo (Photo: Marcha Patriotica)
In Kpaka Chiefdom, Pujehun District in southern Sierra Leone, on another of Siva’s land leases, town chiefs, youth leaders and landowners hold meetings to complain bitterly that their Paramount Chief leased more than 19,000 hectares of their land. (Photo: Joan Baxter)
The Indonesian government is aiming to lure foreign investors to develop agricultural fields and farms outside Java, given the “insignificant” foreign contributions to total investments in the sector (Photo: lightstalkers.org).
Farmers in this village in Sierra Leone say they didn't know what they were getting into when they leased their land for a biofuel crop they fear threatens their food harvests. (Photo: Reuters)
From left to right: Ali Bin Amin, Israeli ambassador to Ethiopia; Yewondoson Bekele (Eng), board chairman of Hiber; and Jacques Ollech, general manager of BDFC, while chatting before signing the Memorandum of Understanding. (Source: Addis Fortune)
Again and again in US history, the economic arguments for foreign investment have trumped politics. (Photograph by Daniel Acker/Bloomberg/Getty.)
Globally farmland provides returns of between 2% and 4% above inflation. In SA the return is about 8% above inflation, says asset manager Duncan Vink
After Venezuela's Vice President Jorge Arreaza's visit to Beijing,
senior Venezuelan officials announced that Chinese investment could cover 30 million hectares of land in the Latin American country.
Agricultural experts from China offer tips on rice planting to farmers in Dakar, Senegal. Photograph: Zheng Zheng/Xinhua
In 2001, more than 4,000 people were evicted from land in Uganda after it had been acquired by the German coffee firm Neumann Gruppe on a 99-year lease. The company insists the deal was above board, but residents from Kyengeza village in Mubende district have always insisted that they were forcefully driven off from their land.
