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AFJN Executive Director’s opening remarks at the National Forum on Land Grabbing in Accra, Ghana
- AFJN
- 29 August 2016
There is an epidemic that grips Africa, says Father Aniedi Okure
The church in Ghana speaks out on the issue of land grabbing
- Vatican Radio
- 29 August 2016
The report titled, Unmasking land grabbing in Ghana: restoring livelihoods; paving way for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), narrates how land grabbing is affecting rural livelihoods and threatening food security the country in the long run.
Bidco fends off protestors over palm oil
- EABW
- 28 August 2016
Bidco is not pleased by the protestors who turned up last week in London to highlight the company’s palm oil operations, specifically in neighbouring Uganda.
Barclays and Standard Chartered picketed in London over Bidco business
- APO
- 27 August 2016
East African protesters have taken to the streets of London to demonstrate against banks that do business with Bidco Africa, highlighting the connection between global financial institutions, The Prince of Wales and widespread deforestation in Africa.
Joint statement and open questions on ProSAVANA by the civil society of Mozambique, Brazil and Japan in response to newly leaked government documents
- No to ProSavana
- 27 August 2016
The ProSAVANA program intentionally weakens and creates division among peasants while there is an increased risk of even more peasants losing their land.
Chinese firm to establish $8m feed mill, maize farm in Cross River, NIgeria
- Today
- 25 August 2016
A Chinese firm, Wuhan Longfecund Agricultural Development Company Ltd., has concluded plans to set up a feed mill and maize farm in Cross River State, Nigeria.
Report on 'land grabbing in Ghana' launched
- Ghana News Agency
- 24 August 2016
The National Catholic Secretariat in collaboration with Caritas Ghana and the Centre for Indigenous Knowledge and Development has launched a joint report on ‘land grabbing’ in Ghana.
Green and blue water demand from large-scale land acquisitions in Africa
- PNAS
- 24 August 2016
In the last decade, more than 22 million ha of land have been contracted to large-scale land acquisitions in Africa, leading to increased pressures, competition, and conflicts over freshwater resources.
Korean company looking to crack open cashew nut market
- Vientiane Times
- 23 August 2016
Provincial administration office in Champassak, Laos gave the go ahead for a US$9 million project by Korean company G Farm for planting cashew nut trees and processing plant. Agriculture and Forestry Department plans to promote the growing of 10,000 hectares of nuts in the province.
Kazakhstan extends by five years moratorium on controversial Land Code amendments
- Astana Times
- 23 August 2016
Kazakhstan decided Aug. 18 to extend for five years a recently imposed moratorium on the implementation of controversial amendments to its land law.
Why do Kazakhstanis fear China?
- China in Central Asia
- 23 August 2016
The earliest land protests took place in 2003 when Kazakhstan entered into an agreement with China to rent 7,000 hectares of land – a deal that would have employed 3,000 Chinese workers.
ProSAVANA’s communication strategy and its impact: An analysis of JICA’s disclosed and leaked documents
- No! to landgrab, Japan
- 22 August 2016
This paper aims to(re)discover what ProSAVANA was and turned to be though a collective reading of primary documents