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Zimbabwe: Rollex to engage more farmers
- Herald
- 28 September 2015
Rollex, an agriculture division of UK-based Lonrho, has more than 150 farmers under its contract scheme and also runs its own farms.
#NoLandNoLife | 16 Days of Global Action on Rural Women
- PAN AP
- 28 September 2015
As we commemorate Rural Women's Day on October 15 and World Food (less) Day on October 16, we join rural women and all rural folk to the rallying call: Women, assert our rights to land and resources! No land, No life!
Garifuna communities of Honduras resist corporate land grabs
- Caribbean News
- 26 September 2015
The fate of the Garifuna people of Honduras hangs in the balance as they face a Honduran state that is all too eager to accommodate the neoliberal agenda of US and Canadian investors.
Another setback for Jilin Food Zone
- Straits Times
- 26 September 2015
Resignation of CEO is latest setback to the project in north-eastern China's Jilin province meant to diversify food sources for Singaporeans and help improve safety standards for Chinese consumers.
Via Campesina promotes international declaration on the rights of peasants in United Nations Human Rights Council
- Via Campesina
- 24 September 2015
Via Campesina says peasants are victims of human rights violations on every continent, though exclusion, land grabbing and repression of their leaders.
Brookfield lands $100m from Oregon for new Brazil agri fund
- Agri Investor
- 23 September 2015
The $70 billion Oregon Public Employees Retirement Fund has approved a US$100 million investment in Brookfield Brazil Agriculture II, a $700m vehicle being raised by Canada's largest asset manager.
Cambodian land concessions deepen poverty, report says
- VoA
- 22 September 2015
Cambodian land concessions granted to companies last year affected nearly 80,000 people, displacing many of them and increasing poverty according to a new report by NGO Forum on Cambodia.
Ethiopia: World Bank translator, activists face trial
- GRAIN
- 22 September 2015
Ethiopian authorities should drop charges and release three local activists charged under repressive anti-terrorism law after trying to attend a workshop on food security, say six international organisations.
Australia: Rural Funds continues expansion into almonds with Olam leasing deal
- Financial Review
- 21 September 2015
The $150 million Rural Funds Group has increased its exposure to almonds after striking a deal to develop 1500 hectares in two new almond orchards in the NSW Riverina backed by a long-term lease to Singapore giant Olam.
Chinese interest in Kidman to test PM
- Financial Review
- 21 September 2015
The new Turnbull government is facing its first big test on foreign investment as Chinese bidders circle Australia's largest landholder, S. Kidman & Co., which owns cattle stations in the top-secret Woomera rocket range.
Uruguay farms raise record funds after land prices jump 11-fold
- Bloomberg
- 21 September 2015
Uruguayan farm operators are raising a record amount of funds in the securities market after a boom in prices for the country’s farmland.
China snaps up Qld cattle station
- The Land
- 21 September 2015
London-listed M.P. Evans, offloaded 31,000-hectare cattle-fattening property Woodlands, near Westmar, Australia for $28 million to a subsidiary of China's Fucheng Group.