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Belarusian agriculture to be sold to Chinese
- Charter 97
- 13 June 2017
China's DRex Food Group is negotiating with Belarus for the lease of 20,000 hectares for the construction of a 40,000 head dairy farm in the Mahiliou region, Klimavichy district.
Agro outsourcing target: 10,000 hectares in Kazakhstan
- Financial Tribune
- 13 June 2017
Iran's South Khorasan Province aims to get hold of 10,000 ha of farmland in Kazakhstan for its own food production. Ukraine is also being targeted.
Sudan allocates 2,4 million feddans for largest agricultural scheme
- Sudan Tribune
- 12 June 2017
The Sudanese President Omer al-Bashir Tuesday has issued a presidential decree to allocate 2,4 million feddans of land in the River Nile State for a national agricultural scheme, backed by the UAE's Al Dahra Agricultural Holding
Mozambique invites investors to fund irrigation projects
- APA
- 12 June 2017
Mozambique's Minister of Agriculture invites potential national and international investors to finance irrigation projects of 200,000 hectares for food production, including the controversial ProSavana programme and Lurio River Valley Development Project.
Georgia to ban agriculture land sales to foreigners
- Civil Georgia
- 09 June 2017
Parliamentary Chairman announces that the Cabinet of Ministers and the parliamentary majority struck a deal to introduce a provision in the constitution prohibiting agricultural land sales to foreign citizens, citing “strategic interests”
Cambodia: communities in protracted struggle against Chinese sugar companies’ land grab
- CNA, Ponlok Khmer, GRAIN, CIYA and AIPP
- 08 June 2017
A new report exposes the devastating consequences of land grabs for indigenous communities in Preah Vihear province, northern Cambodia.
Danish investment firm breaks ground in Chinese pig breeding project
- Global Meat News
- 08 June 2017
A Danish government investment fund is one of four investors in a huge new pig breeding and processing project that has just broken ground in northern China.
The Harvard yard sale: Private equity, real estate and New Zealand dairy farms
- WSJ
- 07 June 2017
Private-equity giant KKR nears $70 million deal for some of the endowment’s farm holdings, including 8,500 acres of dairy farms on the South Island of New Zealand
Discontents in Japan’s aid discourse in Africa: Land grabbing activism in Tokyo International Conference for Africa Development (TICAD) process
- JASD
- 07 June 2017
TICAD rhetoric of ownership and partnership has contributed to the transfer of land from local populations to the state and transnational corporations for the purpose of large-scale farming.
Ukrainian lawmakers mull farm privatisation
- Foreign Brief
- 07 June 2017
Ukraine’s parliament will begin discussing controversial IMF-mandated agricultural land reforms today, while the country's farmers march in protest outside.
Small farmers in Madagascar say Chinese investors forced them to sell their land for dirt cheap
- Global Voices
- 05 June 2017
Chinese foreigners are forcing farmers in southwest Madagascar to sell their land for a mere 7 ariary (less than US $0.01) per square meter.
21 days ultimatum for Socfin Managers
- Awoko
- 02 June 2017
Malen Youth Development Union issues second complaint letter to SOCFIN about the grave abuses of workers at its oil palm plantations in Sierra Leone and issues of unfulfilled development promises for locals.