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Law and political economy of commodity rushes: Reflections on “land grabbing” in the Global South
- Law and Political Economy
- 05 September 2019
Law plays a key role in shifting control over the world’s natural resources, including agricultural land.
Zambian agribusiness firm to invest US$200m in a palm oil project
- FBA
- 05 September 2019
Consolidated Farming Limited, subsidiary of Sable group, will be investing US$200 million in setting up a large-scale palm oil project, with a 10,000 ha anchor farm and an out-grower scheme.
Commentary on the draft UNIDROIT/FAO/IFAD Legal Guide on Agricultural Land Investment Contracts
- Afronomics Law
- 03 September 2019
This commentary considers the access to food component of the draft UNIDROIT/FAO/IFAD Legal Guide on Agricultural Land Investment Contracts and voices its silence on intellectual property rights.
China brings 80 investors to Tanzania
- All Africa
- 02 September 2019
An 80-member business delegation from China's Shandong Province will arrive in Tanzania to look on how to scale up agriculture export and import trading in the area of agriculture equipment and products.They will exchange views on motor vehicle- new and used, aquatic products, marine culture industry, fishery, as well as livestock industry.
Uprooted
- SEt Asia Globe
- 29 August 2019
Landgrabs, deforestation and an increasingly-globalised Khmer culture are encroaching deep into the lands and lore of Cambodia's indigenous Bunong people
As the Amazon burns, students call on Harvard to divest from farmland holdings
- The Crimson
- 29 August 2019
As the Amazon rainforest continues to burn, members of Divest Harvard — a student group demanding the University divest from fossil fuels — are renewing their calls on Harvard to withdraw its holdings in farmland across the globe, including in Brazil.
The man who's burning the Amazon
- Bad News
- 29 August 2019
Blackstone, owned by a top US Republican party donor, has launched two funds dedicated to buying farmland in Brazil that work with Brazilian companies to get around laws restricting direct foreign ownership.
Evicted for carbon credits: Norway, Sweden, and Finland displace Ugandan farmers for carbon trading
- Oakland Institue
- 29 August 2019
Report brings forward irrefutable evidence that the Norwegian forestry and carbon credit company, Green Resources, forcibly evicted villagers around their plantation in Kachung, Uganda.
Cameroon peasants criticize large companies
- Jiji
- 28 August 2019
Emmanuel Elong, a farmer from Cameroon, criticized land grabbing by foreign companies at a side event during the 7th African Development Conference (TICAD7) in Yokohama City.
World Bank allocates Ukraine $200 mln for agricultural development project
- UKInform
- 28 August 2019
The World Bank and the Finance Ministry of Ukraine signed an agreement to raise a loan in the amount of USD 200 million for the programme Accelerating Private Investment in Agriculture.
Is nationalisation and state custodianship of land a solution? The case of Mozambique
- Amandla!
- 26 August 2019
The attainment of democratic rights – including the right to access, control and defend land – must be defended and advanced through everyday struggles; laws and policies on their own won’t make significant change
As the Amazon burns, we call on Harvard to cease its investment in farmland
- Medium
- 26 August 2019
Fires in the Amazon are the direct result of human activity. Harvard’s stake in agribusiness contributes to this crisis, says students of Divest Harvard