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Implementation of extra-territorial culture in Ukraine
- ILNA
- 28 August 2015
Iranian institute confirms that Ministry of Agriculture is responsible for overseas farm production programme
Understanding land grabbing, land rights in the 21st Century
- Focus
- 28 August 2015
It is critical for farmers and advocates of land rights as well as the general public to understand how and why land grabbing is happening to make a more effective, strategic campaigning to address and stop it.
Investors are grabbing a Japan-size chunk of the developing world for food and water
- Take Part
- 28 August 2015
Activists tracking these deals say rich countries are buying up land—93 million acres—and displacing local people and wildlife.
PNG: Court rulings confirm SABLs null and void
- Act Now
- 27 August 2015
Since 2007 there have been five reported legal cases in which the validity of Special Agriculture Business Leases (SABL) has been challenged through the Courts, all leases was declared null and void.
Japan's Mitsubishi buys 20% stake in Olam
- Reuters
- 27 August 2015
Japan's Mitsubishi Corporation has bought a 20 per cent stake in global-agri business Olam through two transactions as the companies launch a strategic partnership.
Nigeria to work with Chinese firm on sorghum production
- World Grain
- 27 August 2015
Sang-Liang Technology Development Centre and Nigeria's Raw Materials Research and Development Council will partner with the Niger state government for land provision for the pilot project.
Large scale land acquisitions: Impacts & solutions for Zambia
- PLAAS
- 27 August 2015
A video discussing large scale land acquisitions in Zambia, and the risks they pose to those who derive their livelihoods from the land.
Questions we need to ask about what would be the second largest rubber plantation in Africa
- Sierra Express
- 26 August 2015
China has confirmed the continuation of a $1.2 billion rubber and rice investment deal in Sierra Leone, covering 135,000 hectares, that was signed in 2012.
Thailand: Oil palm land-grab leader murdered in Krabi
- Bangkok Post
- 25 August 2015
A leader of a group trying to seize a 1,400-rai oil palm plantation run by Thai Pattana Co, a joint operation of a foreign investor and his Thai business partner, was shot dead while leaving the farm on motorcycle.
Mozambican company plans to build cashew processing unit
- Macauhub
- 25 August 2015
Cattle ranching company Beira Boi Limitada seeks to eventually establish a cashew plantation on 500 hectares to ensure a supply of raw material to feed a nut processing facility in Sofala Province.
Farmland investment platform to offer rare returns data for investors, farmers
- Agfunder News
- 25 August 2015
Map Of Agriculture says it is well positioned to serve the comparative farming system benchmarking needs of farmland investors.
Will KLK proceed with the corrupt Sepik oil palm deal?
- Act Now
- 24 August 2015
PNG’s Minister for Trade, Commerce and Industry sign a Heads of Agreement that would make KLK an equity partner in development of 37,000 ha oil palm project in East Sepik’s Special agriculture Economic Zone(SEZ).