The ProSAVANA program intentionally weakens and creates division among peasants while there is an increased risk of even more peasants losing their land.
- No to ProSavana
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27 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.
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.
- Ghana News Agency
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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.
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.
- Vientiane Times
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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.
- Astana Times
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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.
- China in Central Asia
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23 August 2016
This paper aims to(re)discover what ProSAVANA was and turned to be though a collective reading of primary documents
- No! to landgrab, Japan
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22 August 2016
Speaker of Gazira state Legislative Council disclosed the Sudanese government and Chinese companies have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) allowing the latter to grow one million feddans of cotton in Sudan.
- Sudan Tribune
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22 August 2016
Eight private security guards of Sharp Security attached to Socfin Agricultural Company in Malen Chiefdom attacked community members of Walleh village, claiming they were in possession of palm fruits belonging to the company.
- Green Scenery
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19 August 2016
GFF seeks to acquire farmland in regions where land is undervalued relative to production value and will make its first investments in acquiring farms in the southeastern U.S.
- PR Newswire
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19 August 2016
Harvard Management Co. names Colin Butterfield, former CEO of TIAA's Brazilian farmland investment company, as head of natural resources at the university’s $37.6 billion endowment.