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'Agro investors must be flexible'
- Phnom Penh Post
- 29 January 2016
Jef Boedt, general manager of Socfin Cambodia, explains the company’s investment in Cambodia and operating challenges linked to land rights.
Caravan for land, water and seeds to mobilise West Africa
- FIAN
- 26 January 2016
A caravan by the Global Convergence of Land and Water Struggles – West Africa will go across the region to get the voices of communities heard and engage national authorities to stop land grabbing
Land grabbing and violations of human rights in Ethiopia
- Finfinne Tribune
- 26 January 2016
Analytical evaluation of effect of current land grabbing policy indicates destabilization of livelihood assets of rural communities of Oromia and Southern Ethiopia.
Cargill subsidiary Black River spins off private equity firm
- Reuters
- 26 January 2016
Cargill Inc subsidiary Black River Asset Management LLC announced on Monday the spinoff of a private equity firm focused on food and agriculture, including farmland investments.
Statement of solidarity with UNAC representatives in response to threats and attacks committed by JICA-hired MAJOL consultancy firm representative
- 25 January 2016
support letter by members of the international “No! to ProSAVANA” campaign and of the “International Network of those Affected by Vale” to UNAC (União Nacional de Camponeses) in response to the threats and attempted physical attacks they suffered on 11 January 2016.
Preliminary analysis of the JICA primary documents
- No! to Landgrab, Japan
- 24 January 2016
Japanese groups assess the JICA contracts with the ‘Communications Strategy’ consultants and the ProSAVANA Master Plan (MP) Japanese consultant reports
Poland: State ag land sales to be suspended
- USDA FAS
- 22 January 2016
Polish Ministry of Agriculture proposes new legislation suspending for 5 years sales of the state owned agricultural land. The proposed legislation aims to strengthen the protection of agricultural land in Poland from speculative purchases by domestic and foreign buyers
Haiti’s fraudulent presidential frontrunner seizes land for his own banana republic
- OWAP
- 22 January 2016
Farmers remain homeless and out of work while the land grabbed by the company Jovenel Moïse founded, Agritrans, now hosts a private banana plantation.
Largest halal beef farm to be built in Kazakhstan
- Global Meat
- 22 January 2016
Dubai-based company AMK Metal Fzco is to construct a livestock farm for 20,000 head of cattle and a meat processing plant for the production of 5,000 tonnes of high-quality beef in Kazakhstan.
Call for mobilization: West African caravan for land, water and seeds
- GCLWS
- 22 January 2016
The Global Convergence of Land and Water Struggles – West Africa invites you to join the West African Caravan for Land, Water and Seeds, which will mobilize 15 countries of the sub-region in March 2016
Chinese buy big WA farms in $35 million deal
- West Australian
- 21 January 2016
A Chinese company with strong links to the family of Li Ka-shing, one of Asia’s richest men, is on the verge of securing farms covering almost 70,000ha after the biggest single offering of freehold land in Western Australia’s history.
Chinese firm to enhance food security in Nigeria
- Xinhua
- 20 January 2016
A Chinese firm in southwest Nigeria's Ogun State has set up an integrated poultry farm in order to focus on enhancing the nation's food security through commercial agricultural production.