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When investors come knocking: ensuring African women have a say
- IIED
- 17 June 2016
Unless proactive steps are taken to enable women to have a stronger voice, large-scale agribusiness projects will leave them even more marginalised.
India: Govt to import 6.5 lakh tonnes of pulses to check soaring prices
- Times of India
- 17 June 2016
The government of India is looking at the possibility of leasing land in Mozambique to grow pulses.
CSOs want to reanimate the dialogue on Socfin in Malen Chiefdom: over 120,000 signatures to be handed over to Government
- SFDI et al
- 16 June 2016
Civil Society Organisations in Sierra Leone wish to let the public understand that a solution to the persistent conflict in Malen Chiefdom is needed.
Sierra Leone: Six land rights activists released through citizen solidarity
- FIAN Belgium
- 16 June 2016
Civil society organizations demand to stop land grabbing by the agro-industrial company Socfin and to protect the human rights of the communities.
Kazakhstan’s land reforms
- The Diplomat
- 15 June 2016
While there is near consensus that foreigners should not have the right to own farmland in Kazakhstan, opinions are deeply divided on the issue of granting leases to foreigners.
North Dakota rejects corporate farm ownership by 3-to-1 Margin
- CommonDreams
- 15 June 2016
"The results are a strong message that the people don't want corporate farming in North Dakota."
Wall St. funds flirt with farmland
- Progressive Farmer
- 14 June 2016
Wall Street remains enamored with US and international farmland, speakers at a Farm Foundation meeting in Louisville said last week.
Land grabs soar, worsen land conflicts and climate change: Report
- teleSUR
- 14 June 2016
Industrial agriculture and financial sectors are hand-in-hand worsening climate change and then profiting from it, with an unprecedented number of land grabs over the last eight years.
Global farmland deals now cover area the size of Finland: campaigners
- Reuters
- 14 June 2016
Global investors have spent more than $90 billion buying agricultural lands the size of Finland in deals criticized by rights groups for displacing small farmers, according to research published on Tuesday.
Land reform and food sovereignty
- Nyéléni newsletter
- 14 June 2016
Capital is appropriating our territories. Hence, we must respond by turning the struggle for land into a struggle for territory.
Report finds big ag's global land grab expanding to new frontiers
- Common Dreams
- 14 June 2016
While 'food security-driven land grabbing' has subsided in recent years, 'plain old profit-driven agribusiness expansion is now the dominant agenda'.
The global farmland grab in 2016: how big, how bad?
- GRAIN
- 14 June 2016
Eight years after releasing its first report on land grabbing, GRAIN publishes a new dataset documenting nearly 500 cases of land grabbing around the world.