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Investors wake up to ag value
- Farm Weekly
- 16 January 2017
Canadian investors - particularly pension funds - have led the way in changing Australian city money attitudes to agriculture.
Development of new horticultural area in Ethiopia
- Bloemisterij
- 13 January 2017
While Dutch ag investors get priority access to 1500 ha near Hawassa, their embassy is helping the Ethiopian government start a conversation with its discontented population.
The synthesis of the thirteen WFAL2016 world meeting workshops are now available
- WFAL
- 13 January 2017
Read the synthesis of the thematic sessions which took place on the 31st March, 1st and 2 April 2016 in Valencia, Spain, during the global forum of the World Forum on Access to Land and Natural Resources.
Rui Feng still clearing farmland, villagers say
- Phnom Penh Post
- 13 January 2017
China sugarcane company Rui Feng continued its campaign to clear disputed land in Preah Vihear province, Cambodia yesterday, even after a video of its employees seemingly trying to beat villagers surfaced online earlier this week.
Sugar company worn out by empty promises
- Cambodia Daily
- 12 January 2017
Some 100 farmers who have spent the past 11 days sleeping on land to guard it from bulldozers in Preah Vihear province, Cambodia are exhausted by empty promises from the government to solve their problem.
India's top court queries land use in special economic zones
- Place
- 12 January 2017
In India, of the almost 5,000 hectares (12,355 acres) of land acquired for SEZs in the last five years, only 362 hectares have been used for their intended purpose, according to SEZ Farmers' Protection Welfare Association despite farmers have been devastated by the loss of their land.
Tensions between Chinese firm, ethnic villagers mount
- Phnom Penh Post
- 12 January 2017
Ethnic Kuoy villagers in Preah Vihear, Cambodia filed a complaint against Chinese sugar company Rui Feng on Tuesday after a long-simmering land dispute almost erupted into violence last week.
On 7th anniversary of earthquake, Haitian farmers file land grab complaint highlighting harm caused by disaster “recovery” efforts
- Accountability Counsel
- 12 January 2017
A collective representing hundreds of Haitian farmers, filed a complaint to the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) about its role in a case of land grabbing.
Green Desert: Communities in Tanintharyi Renounce the MSPP Oil Palm Concession
- EIA
- 12 January 2017
This notorious palm oil industry has now expanded to Myanmar with devastating consequences for human rights and the environment
Farmers granted bail in Myanmar army land-grabbing case
- SBS
- 10 January 2017
Twenty-one farmers were granted bail by a Myanmar court on Tuesday after being jailed over a land-grab dispute with the military that has highlighted acute challenges faced by the rural poor.
Myanmar firm courts agro-industry park investment
- Myanmar Times
- 10 January 2017
A Myanmar company is building the first of several planned agricultural industrial parks in Ayeyarwady region aimed at attracting foreign and local investment into agriculture.
Swiss investor to pump Rs 900 mn in dairy farm
- Daily News
- 10 January 2017
A Swiss investor who "hails from one of the richest families in the world" is planning to construct a 150 acre dairy farm in Ambewela, Sri Lanka with an investment of Rs 900 million.