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AgDevCo investment of $4million in a Potato Seed growing company and an out-grower scheme in Mbala’s Saise Farm gathers momentum
- ZBT
- 21 July 2016
AgDevCo’s investment of $3.9m will be used to establish irrigation (250ha) and power.
Report says overseas investors should be allowed to buy our farms
- Herald Sun
- 20 July 2016
Draft report on Australia agriculture regulation calls for the sale of any farmland or agribusiness worth less than $250 million to foreign interests to be exempt from any review process.
High Court gives creditors go-ahead to wind up Karuturi
- Business Daily
- 20 July 2016
Kenya's High Court has given creditors of the collapsed Karuturi Limited a go-ahead to begin the winding up of the once vibrant flower firm.
Brazil campaigners hail court decision canceling large land deal
- Reuters
- 20 July 2016
Campaigners in Brazil on Wednesday hailed a court decision to cancel a major land acquisition deal because investors had illegally acquired territory from small-scale farmers.
Foreigners own about 15% of Latvian agricultural land - farming association
- Baltic Course
- 20 July 2016
A ban on selling land to citizens of foreign countries was proposed in order to protect local farmers who cannot compete with large Danish, German and other European agricultural enterprises in terms of prices and possibilities to attract funding.
Court rules that Brazilian businessman who sold lands to TIAA-CREF acquired lands illegally
- Rede Social de Justiça e Direitos Humanos, GRAIN, Inter Pares, Solidarity Sweden-Latin America, FIAN and National Family Farm Coalition
- 20 July 2016
A Brazilian businessman involved in the acquisition of farmland by US, Canadian, German and Swedish pension funds could face criminal charges for land grabbing.
Investing in land for water: The converging legal regimes
- IISD
- 20 July 2016
This policy brief presents the different sources of law that are triggered by the use of water for farmland investments, and makes recommendations to help reconcile different legal regimes while ensuring water issues are adequately addressed.
Roses bloom, then thorns pop up
- The Telegraph
- 19 July 2016
To Karuturi, who has also offered to grow up to one million tonne of lentils for India on farm tracts leased in Ethiopia, the Mozambique model is an example of "political correctness."
Why is the EU funding Ethiopia's repression of land rights defenders?
- Thomson Reuters Foundation
- 18 July 2016
Opponents of the Ethiopian government’s policies have faced violence, but the EU has continued to provide funding for its commercial land deal projects.
Agribusiness, a step towards increased food dependency in Africa
- WRM
- 17 July 2016
Throughout the Congo Basin sub-region, whether in Mundemba (Cameroon) or Mboma (Gabon), we see agribusiness increasingly competing with local agricultural economies.
Families in southern Sierra Leone sue to recover land from agriculture companies
- Namati
- 17 July 2016
Landowning families in southern Sierra Leone have commenced legal action in the country’s High Court against African Lion Agriculture Limited and Carmanor (SL) Limited to recover possession of around 2303 acres of land.
DRC: Communities mobilise to free themselves from a hundred years of colonial oil palm plantations
- WRM
- 17 July 2016
Communities in the DRC are organising to liberate their communities from the occupation and exploitation that they have endured for generations.