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Lessons from Herakles: sorting out a road map for palm oil in Africa
- Mongabay
- 08 April 2016
Conflict between Cameroonian communities and an American agribusiness company reveals problems in how palm oil is expanding across the country.
Land Inc. - The book
- TerraProject
- 07 April 2016
Since 2012, TerraProject, a documentary photography collective based in Italy, has been producing the first global visual investigation on land investments. They now issue the first photographic book on land issues by TerraProject (photographs) and Cécile Cazenave (journalist).
No more land concessions in Champassak
- Vientiane Times
- 07 April 2016
More than 100 companies both local and overseas have registered for land concessions on state land in Champassak, Laos.
La Via Campesina organizes the International Conference of Agrarian Reform in Brazil
- Via Campesina
- 06 April 2016
The struggles for land, water, and territory are central to the struggle for Food Sovereignty.
Large scale land acquisition to be modernized
- GNA
- 06 April 2016
Stakeholders in land administration, on Wednesday discussed details of a project that aims at ensuring socially responsible land-based investments.
Chinese fertilizer company to set up Australian operation
- China Daily
- 05 April 2016
Chinese fertilizer producer Hubei Xinyangfeng has secured its first allotment of farmland outside of China, after it purchased a farm in southern New South Wales, Australia.
Glencore in talks to sell stake in agri business to CPPIB - WSJ
- Reuters
- 05 April 2016
The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board is in advanced talks to buy a stake in Miner and commodity trader Glencore Plc's agricultural business, which has farming operations covering 270,000ha in Argentina, Australia, Kazakhstan, Russia and the Ukraine.
Chinese investor clears Luweero Wetland amidst protests
- URN
- 05 April 2016
Kehong Uganda has embarked on massive clearing of the wetland to pave way for rice growing, horticulture, poultry and establishment of factories. The firm has also diverted the water, which has been flowing into River Lugogo and Lake Kyoga for use.
Chinese firm stirs anger by pumping water from river
- The Nation
- 04 April 2016
A Chinese-owned firm operating banana plantations has caused a water conflict in Chiang Rai's Phaya Meng Rai district.
Government to endorse unlawful SABL land grab
- ActNow!
- 04 April 2016
The government is to ignore the SABL Commission of Inquiry and endorse the SABL land grab by converting the unlawful leases into registered land and issuing new leases to companies.
Karuturi to be auctioned over toxic debts, workers fate unknown
- Daily Nation
- 04 April 2016
Kenya’s biggest flower firm is set to go under the auctioneers’ hammer, as owners of the Indian multinational failed to defend the winding up petition filed in court by creditors.
Land and food, not bullets: Stop the violence against Asian farmers
- PANAP
- 02 April 2016
We denounce these repressive acts in the strongest terms and call upon the authorities to immediately hold to account all those responsible behind the vicious attacks on Indonesian and Filipino farmers, indigenous peoples and their supporters.