Heilongjiang Hegang Sanjiang Plain Rice Group is embarking on a pilot production on 500 hectares of farmland, thereafter expanding to 10,000 hectares.
- The Nation
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19 February 2016
The African Institute for Agrarian Studies brought Southern scholars, activists, practitioners, and farmers to Harare, Zimbabwe to learn from each other’s work and experiences to advance social justice projects for the rural global South.
In Haiti, majority of the people working the land are women. When a family is dispossessed of its land, rural women are the first to feel the pain. Ways that land theft and expulsions are affecting them need to be put on the table so the impacted women can be made a priority.
- Other Worlds
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17 February 2016
The head of Iran's industry and agriculture committee in Khoramshahr city said Omani businessmen would be provided with lands and waters and 1 million palm saplings will be cultivated in Khoramshahr and their output exported to Oman.
- Oman Daily Observer
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17 February 2016
An explosive new report exposing tax evasion and financial misreporting by logging industry in PNG only emphasizes the need to cancel the unlawful Special Agricultural and Business leases (SABLs).
New research examining the geographical coverage of international investment treaties raises concern about how they might affect public action to address 'land grabbing'.
The Donor Platform commissioned 4 studies to guide donors in prioritising activities and investments in land governance.
- Donor Platform
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17 February 2016
Mr Hornibrook, who was a former head of Macquarie Agricultural Funds Management, along with some members of his sales team, were found to have extracted sensitive commercial information from a rival fund.
Australian banking giant ANZ has come under fire for its response to a scandal over its financing of a sugar plantation previously linked to forced evictions and child labour in Kampong Speu province.
- Phnom Penh Post
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16 February 2016
The Netherlands Academy on Land Governance / IDS Utrecht University has conducted a scoping study on Dutch flower farms, land governance and local food security in eastern Africa
Follow up from 2014 Oxfam report "Banking on Shaky Ground – Australia's big four banks and land grabs", asserts that all four banks have failed to ensure the affected communities' rights to food, shelter and a sustainable livelihood were restored.
Almost two years ago Oxfam revealed that Australia’s Big 4 Banks — the ANZ, Commonwealth Bank, NAB and Westpac — are backing agriculture and timber companies linked to land grabs in developing countries.