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PH agri attaché eyes ‘food security’ ties with UAE
- Filipino Times
- 26 January 2017
The Philippine Embassy’s agricultural counsellor is looking at working on an agreement in the area of food security with the UAE government
Algerian firm signs $300 million farming deal with U.S. group
- Reuters
- 25 January 2017
Privately-owned Algerian dairy company Tifralait and American International Agriculture Group (AIAG) will set up a joint venture to develop projects over an area of 25,000 hectares covering cereals, potato, fertilizers, dairy and cattle feed.
Urgent protest and request submitted to JICA’s President Mr Shinichi Kitaoka
- Africa Japan Forum et al.
- 24 January 2017
Concerning JICA’s attempt to suppress Mozambican peasant leaders and CSO representative visiting Japan
Khartoum provides Saudi investors new guarantees
- Asharq Al-Awsat
- 24 January 2017
There are 196 Saudis investing in the agricultural sector in Sudan and they basically focus on wheat, corn and feed.
Gabon: The battle over palm oil
- African Business Magazine
- 24 January 2017
The controversy surrounding palm oil cultivation involving agricultural trading company Olam International has intensified over the last two months.
POSCO Daewoo launches agribusiness in Myanmar
- Korea Times
- 22 January 2017
According to a POSCO Daewoo official, Sunday, Korea's largest trading affiliate under POSCO group has secured construction and investment approval from the Myanmar government to build a rice processing complex (RPC) in Twante.
Colombian human rights leader assassinated
- Telesur
- 20 January 2017
Afro-Colombian human rights activist Emilsen Manyoma, an outspoken critic of the displacement of local communities by international agribusiness interests, is the latest victim in a wave of attacks against human rights defenders.
Does the end of high food prices mark the end of the global land rush?
- Reuters
- 18 January 2017
FAO expert says it would be wrong to conclude that investors’ interest in agriculture has vanished and developing countries and donors should do more to ensure responsible investment and confront domestic “land grabbers".
Watch: Cambodia’s Kuoy in land conflict with Chinese company
- Radio Free Asia
- 17 January 2017
The China-backed sugar plantation is clearing land and forest, jeopardizing the survival of the indigenous Kuoy in Cambodia.
The new superpowers in the global land grab and how they operate
- The Conversation
- 17 January 2017
Land deals are implemented – and often initiated – by sub-national states which are in competition with each other to win major investments.
Vulture funds closing in on hundreds of farms
- Farm Ireland
- 17 January 2017
Hundreds of farms in Ireland face repossession this year as so-called vulture funds swoop on indebted properties, agri-finance experts have warned.
LandBank, JICA ink ¥4.9-B agribusiness project for Mindanao conflict areas
- Manila Bulletins
- 17 January 2017
Land Bank of the Philippines (LandBank) and the government of Japan have signed a loan agreement worth almost ¥5-billion to fund a five-year project that aims to jumpstart agribusiness investments in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM).