De Heus to build demonstration farm in Vietnam
- AllAboutFeed
- 02 September 2016
Last June, Dutch animal feed company De Heus started the construction of a demonstration farm for 400 sows and 800 fattening pigs in Vietnam.
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16 arrested in Malawi tea estate land grab: Thyolo villagers occupy Comforzi Estate
- Nyasa Times
- 02 September 2016
The Peoples Land Organisation seeks the local people’s occupation of all idle tea estates land, as well as reparations for the years since 1914 that estates owners occupied the lands and engaged in bonded labour practices. The organisation has also been demanding from the estates owners a wage rate of £6.13 per hour (about K5 000) per individual for those who were involved in Thangata (bonded labour) between 1914 and 1963.
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Important victories against agribusiness land grabs in Kenya
- Action Aid
- 01 September 2016
Last month people in Yala Swamp in Kenya won a court decision against Dominion Farms, a company from the United States, which has been grabbing their land since 2003.
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Korean palm oil firm accused of illegal forest burning in Indonesia
- Guardian
- 01 September 2016
A Korean palm oil company has been dropped by buyers after footage emerged that allegedly shows the illegal burning of vast tracts of tropical forest on lands it holds concessions for in Indonesia.
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Dutch, Israeli farms in Ethiopia attacked by protesters
- Bloomberg
- 01 September 2016
A Dutch-run flower farm in northern Ethiopia was among a series of foreign-owned plantations attacked by anti-government protesters as unrest in the country spreads.
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Cables reveal US gov’t role in Herakles Farms land grab in Cameroon
- Mongabay
- 30 August 2016
Cables obtained by the non-profit Oakland Institute through a Freedom of Information Act request reveal that U.S. government officials pushed Cameroon to approve a deeply controversial oil palm development owned by Herakles Farms.
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WA cattle on Chinese menu for Gina RInehart
- West Australian
- 30 August 2016
The Chinese company joining forces with Gina Rinehart to buy the Kidman cattle empire has one hurdle to clear in a separate deal to secure a cluster of stations in the Goldfields.
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Responsible land governance in Ethiopia: Rising to the challenge
- Reuters
- 30 August 2016
EU Ambassador to Ethiopia responds to criticism of EU's joint project with Ethiopia to facilitate large-scale farmland investments.
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Village land purchases banned
- Daily News
- 29 August 2016
The Tanzanian government has issued an order prohibiting customary lands from being sold on long lease to individuals or institutions, as a large portion of land belonging to villages had turned targets of various local and foreign investors.
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Liberia must learn to honor the rights of rural residents to manage their own land
- Los Angeles Times
- 29 August 2016
The current economic model of transferring land to foreign investors on a massive scale fails to acknowledge the rights of rural communities to collectively own and manage their territories.
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AFJN Executive Director’s opening remarks at the National Forum on Land Grabbing in Accra, Ghana
- AFJN
- 29 August 2016
There is an epidemic that grips Africa, says Father Aniedi Okure
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The church in Ghana speaks out on the issue of land grabbing
- Vatican Radio
- 29 August 2016
The report titled, Unmasking land grabbing in Ghana: restoring livelihoods; paving way for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), narrates how land grabbing is affecting rural livelihoods and threatening food security the country in the long run.
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