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Land “grabbing” grows as agricultural resources dwindle
- Worldwatch Institute
- 06 October 2015
As global agricultural resources shrink or shift, countries are crossing border to obtain new farmlands
International petition to save the malagasy farmers and local communities against new threats to their lands
- Filohan’ny SIF
- 06 October 2015
Platform SIF and Collective TANY call on citizens worldwide to sign a petition to urge the Malagasy authorities to adopt laws which secure farmers and local communities rights on their lands.
Riot on the plantation
- Aljazeera
- 05 October 2015
In Liberia, palm oil has set off a dangerous scramble for land
Land grab prevention campaign in Volta Region, Ghana
- AFJN
- 05 October 2015
AFJN’s Ghana volunteer Task Force on Land Grab Prevention reached out to the Regional Association of Queen Mothers (female chiefs) in Ghana’s Volta Region for the purpose of training its members on the issue of land grabs.
Fresh row erupts at Dominion Farms
- Weekly Citizen
- 05 October 2015
A new controversy has erupted at the multi-million American investor farm at the Yala swamp in Kadenge, Siaya county over establishment of a sugar mill and cultivation of cane in the area.
World Forum on access to Land and Natural Resources between March 31st and April 2nd, 2016, at the Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain.
- WFAL
- 04 October 2015
World Forum on access to Land and Natural Resources between March 31st and April 2nd, 2016, at the Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain.
China's Donlinks Grain & Oil Co Ltd bids for S.Kidman & Co
- Financial Review
- 02 October 2015
Donlinks, one of China's biggest vegetable oil producers, will partner with British Virgin lslands-registered Genius Link Capital, to make an offer for S. Kidman & Co, Australia's largest landholder.
Kiwi owners put Australia's biggest dairy farming operation on the market
- Stuff
- 02 October 2015
The 25 farms of Van Diemen's Land Company in Tasmania are expected to be of interest to multiple trade investors, institutional investors, sovereign funds and also agricultural funds.
A joint venture to invest US$73 mln in plantain chips production
- Medafrica
- 02 October 2015
Juaboso Agro Processing Company, a joint Ghanaian/American business, has secured 6,000 hectares of land for the cultivation of plantain and the building of a factory to export chips to the United States.
Land grabbing and impacts to small-scale farmers in Southeast Asia sub-region
- Local Action Links
- 02 October 2015
This paper aims to study the situation of land grabbing and its impacts on small-scale farmers in 5 countries, namely Thailand, Myanmar, Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam.
Land grabbing - The movie - Trailer
- Langbein & Partner
- 02 October 2015
Film gives an inside look into the world of investors in the international agro-business and shows the consequences for families kicked off the land. Land Grabbing shows how “colonialism 2.0” works.
Guatemalan activist murdered after court suspends palm oil company operations
- Mongabay
- 02 October 2015
A day after a judge suspended operations of a palm-oil company suspected of causing a massive fish die-off on a Guatemalan river, three community leaders were abducted by company workers and an outspoken local teacher was murdered.