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Inner Mongolia investors fancy Houston properties
- China Daily
- 10 December 2015
US real estate company Property Connections of Bay City says it has sold over $100 million worth of farmland in Texas in the last two years to Chinese buyers.
Commercialisation of land in Namibia’s communal land areas: A critical look at potential irrigation projects in Kavango East and Zambezi regions
- PLAAS
- 10 December 2015
The Namibian government has received proposals from multinational agribusiness to develop large-scale agricultural irrigation projects but only a few of have materialised or have been operationalised.
HLH acquires interest in Cambodian land; Select Group launches Cambodian JV
- Deal Street Asia
- 10 December 2015
Two Singaporean agriculture and property group, HLH and Select Group has acquired a 30 per cent interest in two plots of lands in Cambodia through its subsidiary.
#NoLandNoLife | Peasant, indigenous groups file cases to mark Human Rights Day
- PAN AP
- 10 December 2015
To mark the International Human Rights Day today, peasant and indigenous groups are filing cases to seek justice for victims of human rights violations related to land conflicts.
Rapid expansion of large scale land deals in Sierra Leone: The contentions amidst weak land tenure systems
- Standard Times
- 09 December 2015
Land grabbing is a direct acquisition of land shaped by failures of democracy, and economic governance.
Japanese firms hope to expand investment in Ha Nam, Thai Binh
- VNA
- 09 December 2015
Leaders of Ha Nam provincial government agree to allocate 50 hectares of land in Hung Cong commune, Binh Luc district to Japanese company Seibu Nousan for the cultivation of Japonica rice for export to Japan.
Emirati investors to pump around 37 million euros into Morocco’s Agriculture
- MEC
- 08 December 2015
Emirati investors have agreed to invest up to 37 million euros on six agriculture projects in Morocco.
Inside Indonesia’s highest-profile land conflict
- Mongabay
- 07 December 2015
Oil palm plantations have sprung up at breakneck speed across Indonesia’s ravaged hinterlands, eating away at the forests and propelling this country of 250 million to become the world’s sixth-largest emitter of greenhouse gases.
Don't frustrate foreign buyers: BCA
- Farm Weekly
- 07 December 2015
Foreign investment rules controlling overseas ownership of farmland and agribusinesses are not as tough in Australia as in many countries', but the Business Council of Australia says they still confuse and discourage potential investment.
Mega agrobusiness fuels growing resentment in Mozambique
- AFP
- 07 December 2015
Hundreds of small farmers in northern Mozambique have been evicted since 2013 to make way for a mega farm that will produce the soybeans for feed for chickens
UAE's Jenaan exiting Egypt wheat investment in remote region
- Reuters
- 07 December 2015
The company is investing instead in the Upper Egyptian governorate of Minya to grow olive and palm trees on 100,000 acres. The Minya project will be 100,000 acres.
#HumanRightsNotProfits Human Rights Day 2015
- #NoLandNoLife
- 07 December 2015
#NoLandNoLife campaign to commemorate international human rights day on 10 December 2015