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Navigating the complexities of investing in agriculture
- Benefits Canada
- 11 April 2017
While Canadian agriculture shows some promise, institutional investors have been active on the global front, particularly when it comes to farmland.
How Jigawa Govt’s land grab for Chinese firm threatens livelihood of 150,000 citizens
- Premium Times
- 10 April 2017
The decision by the government of Nigeria's Jigawa State to hand over 12,000 hectares of land to a Chinese investor for a sugar cane plantation is threatening the livelihood of about 150,000 persons in the state
Merciless land grab violence hits women who want peace
- WNN
- 05 April 2017
Numerous ethnic women living inside Ethiopia today are attempting to work toward peace in the northern and southern regions of Ethiopia as they continue to witness the destructive crackdown of the government against rural farming communities.
World Bank ignores land grabbing
- Arbetet
- 04 April 2017
New documentary film shows how sales of huge land areas of Ethiopia, by the Ethiopian government, to foreign investors, have led to starvation and forced displacement, and how the World Bank is complicit.
Day of the landless: Resistance and people’s rights, best counter vs. land grabs – PANAP
- PANAP
- 31 Mar 2017
Still the most effective way to counter the land grabbers is the collective action of rural communities to resist and to assert the people’s rights to their own land and resources.
Peasants' houses in Mekar Jaya - the ''hometown of agrarian reform'' in Indonesia - razed down by a plantation firm
- LVC
- 31 Mar 2017
Less than 72 hours after President Joko Widodo's orders to implement the agrarian reform through land redistribution, peasant families of Mekar Jaya Village in Langkat District of North Sumatera Province in Indonesia were in for a rude shock.
AAF ESG Annual Report 2016
- Phatisa
- 31 Mar 2017
African Agriculture Fund Environmental, Social and Governance Annual Report 2016
CCFC Farmers member join LANDLESS DAY 29 March 2017
- CCFC
- 30 Mar 2017
Large land concessions are detrimental to the livelihoods of rural communities, who have drawn little benefit from these concessions and have had no effective remedy or recourse when their rights are infringed or violated.
Land Information Ecosystem Declaration
- Land Portal
- 30 Mar 2017
A group of individuals from a broad range of institutions and organizations that focus on improving land governance around the world hereby commit to promote and bolster data-sharing efforts within the land sector.
Farmers seek independent inquiry into controversial Sierra Leone palm oil deal
- Reuters
- 29 Mar 2017
Farmers and charities are demanding an independent investigation into the claims made by landowners who say their complaints and grievances were ignored.
Report finds a million “missing hectares” in palm oil industry
- Eco-Business
- 28 Mar 2017
A new report by the Zoological Society of London has found inconsistencies in how palm oil companies report on land in their concessions, leaving almost a million hectares of land unaccounted for and exposed to the risk of deforestation.
Ten foreign investors forced to dispose of New Zealand land in last 10 years
- NZ Herald
- 28 Mar 2017
Last year, a total of 466,000ha was sold to offshore buyers with Overseas Investment Office approval - a five-fold increase on the previous year.