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Brazil coup government to legalize foreign land grabbing
- TeleSur
- 25 May 2016
The expected lifting of foreign land ownership will be a windfall for the timber, soy and sugar industries -- and a nightmare for campesinos.
ProSavana files
- 25 May 2016
A collection of official ProSavana files and reports from 2009 to 2016.
West Papuans, activists protest against Sorong oil palm expansion
- Asia Pacific Report
- 25 May 2016
As the indigenous people of Sorong, Nabire, Merauke and elsewhere in West Papua continue to resist oil palm expansion, there now appears to be some hope that the government is responding to President Joko Widodo’s call last month for a moratorium on all new permits.
Tanzania: Project axed to save wildlife
- Citizen
- 24 May 2016
The Government has decided to shelf the Bagamoyo EcoEnergy sugar plantation project in order to safeguard Wami River from which the project would draw its water.
How agribusiness acts in Europe
- Radio Mundo Real
- 23 May 2016
Real World Radio interviewed Paula Gioia, member of Arbeitsgemeinschaft der bauerliche Landwirtschaft and the European Coordination of La Via Campesina during the International Conference on Agrarian Reform in Pará, Brazil.
Florida farmland becoming big deal for institutional investors
- Growing Produce
- 20 May 2016
Real estate agent says with commodity prices down, institutional investors who had been investing in farmland in the Midwest are turning their attention to places like Florida, and sees upswing in investment from Latin America.
World Bank lifts freeze on Cambodia loans amid protests
- Mongabay
- 20 May 2016
The Bank says the move will help alleviate poverty in the Southeast Asian country, but land rights activists expressed disappointment over the decision.
98- year old, blind Elizabeth has to give way for palm oil plantation
- LJ4WA
- 19 May 2016
Thousands of people are being disenfranchised, evicted and deprived of their livelihoods near Kade, Eastern Region of Ghana, by the Belgian oil palm plantation company GOPDC.
Brazil's Guarani Indians killing themselves over loss of ancestral land
- Guardian
- 19 May 2016
Arson attacks and eviction at gunpoint for plantations driving many to despair and take their own lives.
Vietnamese, Thai firms to pour $4 bln into Russian dairy production
- Reuters
- 18 May 2016
State-backed Russia Direct Investment Fund announced plans on Wednesday to sign an agreement with Thailand's Charoen Pokphand Group on joint investments in the construction of a $1 billion milk and dairy complex in the Ryazan region of Russia.
Video: West African women defend traditional palm oil
- GRAIN
- 18 May 2016
New video shows how rural women in West Africa are working to protect traditional palm oil production in the face of land grabbing by industrial oil palm plantations.
Chinese investors look into agriculture potential
- Fiji Times
- 18 May 2016
The Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Qingdao in China is looking into Fiji's agriculture sector as a potential area of investment.