Taiwan’s Wei Yu Engineering Company has sought licenses from Vietnam's central province of Ha Tinh to build a US$1 billion livestock farming and food processing complex and a $1.5 billion wharf.
New GRAIN study finds changed conditions in international “land grabs.”
- Circle of Blue
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24 June 2016
Duncan Pruett reflects on the last 5 years at work advocating on the issues of land rights and foreign investments in agriculture.
- Landportal.info
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24 June 2016
India, one of the world’s largest consumers and importers of pulses, may soon take over agricultural land in Africa and Myanmar to meet growing demand in its domestic market.
Grow Africa executive director William Asiko dismisses concerns about large-scale land grabbing in Ethiopia as "perceptions".
- howwemadeitinafrica.com
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23 June 2016
The Bank will itself invest US $24 billion and leverage additional investments through equity, quasi equity, debt and risk instruments to catalyze investments at scale from the private sector and with co-financing from traditional donors and new players.
The People’s Manual is a pedagogical and didactic guide, which aims to make it easier to understand the Guidelines and to provide a practical approach to people on how to use them in their struggles.
Final report from the III Assembly of Indigenous Peoples of Goias and Tocantins, Brazil, 20-23 June 2016
Villagers representing more than 1,000 families that accuse sugarcane plantations around the country of stealing their land gathered in Phnom Penh on Tuesday to once again call on the government to help.
- Cambodia Daily
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22 June 2016
In Cambodia, more than 15,000 people have been forcibly evicted to make way for sugar cane plantations.
A new poll by the Lowy Institute found 87 per cent of respondents opposed allowing foreign companies to buy Australian agricultural land — six percentage points higher than a similar survey four years ago.
Malawi government tells Chinese investors it is halfway through a process to identify 10,000 estates lying idle that can be opened up for commercial farming.