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Who keeps buying California's scarce water? Saudi Arabia
- Guardian
- 25 Mar 2019
Saudi-based Almarai owns 15,000 acres of an irrigated valley – but what business does a foreign food production company have drawing resources from a US desert?
Multinationals must prepare to cede some land to the very poor
- Daily Nation
- 22 Mar 2019
It is doubtful at Del Monte can continue owning so much land in perpetuity in Kenya.
Military open fire on communities protesting oil palm development in DRC
- Illegal Deforestation Monitor
- 22 Mar 2019
Tensions between local communities in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Canadian oil palm company Feronia have escalated in recent months following a complaint presented last year to the company’s international financial backers.
APRA Brief 18: The political economy of agricultural growth corridors in eastern Africa
- Future Agricultures
- 22 Mar 2019
In our APRA study, we have been asking: what actually happens on the ground, even when corridors as originally planned are slow to materialise? Do the grand visions play out as expected? Who is involved and who loses out?
Farming gamble fails
- Africa Confidential
- 22 Mar 2019
Ambitions for venture capital in African agriculture – once the Next Big Thing – are foundering, as is the case with the Southern Agricultural Growth Corridor of Tanzania.
Liberia’s new land rights law hailed as victory, but critics say it’s not enough
- Mongabay
- 22 Mar 2019
Locked within the legislation is a flaw for those living on the quarter of the country’s land set aside for concessions: it is not retroactive. A difficult truth that is only just beginning to permeate thousands of villages in Liberia.
Is rubber the new palm oil?
- Global Witness
- 21 Mar 2019
As the world’s first Sustainable Rubber Platform is launched, Ali Hines of Global Witness asks whether tire companies can make good on their promises.
Resisting human rights violations in West Africa
- ESCR-Net
- 20 Mar 2019
ESCR-Net members have been engaged in several actions in opposition to Luxembourg registered agri-business Socfin Group and its operations in several Western African countries.
Violent tensions at Feronia's oil palm plantations in the DR Congo
- RIAO-RDC, et al.
- 20 Mar 2019
This Saturday military forces fired live bullets at villagers within the Lokutu oil palm plantation concession area of the Canadian company Feronia Inc, following weeks of growing tension between communities and the company.
Brazil’s key deforestation drivers: Pasture, cropland, land speculation
- Mongabay
- 20 Mar 2019
Brazilian deforestation is most highly driven by land speculation, whereby land speculators deforest an area, possibly selling off the timber, then convert the land to pasture, and then again quickly sell the land to a soy producer at a much increased price.
CBN vows to make Nigeria world’s third palm oil producer
- The National
- 18 Mar 2019
The Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria says that all the states in the South-South and South-East regions have agreed to provide at least 100,000 ha for investors in oil palm plantations.
Myanmar land reform: Calls for new law to be scrapped
- Al Jazeera
- 14 Mar 2019
Rights groups are calling on Myanmar's government to scrap a new land reform law they fear could leave millions of people with nowhere to call home.