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China backs Northern Australia Asia foodbowl push
- Australian Financial Review
- 18 June 2015
China has backed turning northern Australia in to a food bowl for Asia saying the free trade deal will aid Chinese investment in farms in the region.
EBRD financing Ukrainian agriculture group
- World Grain
- 18 June 2015
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development puts another $20 million into the Kernel Group, one of the largest vertically integrated agribusiness holdings in the Ukraine.
Aid donors’ flagship investment deal causing hardship and displacement for Tanzanian farmers
- Oakland Institue
- 18 June 2015
Norfund, the UK aid department, and Capricorn are funding the British company Agrica’s industrial rice plantation in Tanzania, which is destroying the livelihoods of smallholder farmers.
The seemingly public hearing of the ProSavana Program: Yet another phoney dialogue process
- Na?o ProSavana
- 17 June 2015
The ProSavana Program has no legitimacy because it does not abide to the law and because it is fundamentally rejected by wide sectors of Mozambican society, mainly by peasant communities and organizations of the Nacala Corridor.
Land grabbing in Southeast Asia – what can Africa learn?
- PLAAS
- 17 June 2015
Across Southeast Asia, a dramatic reconfiguring of land rights, livelihoods and economies is underway, with profound and disturbing implications for the future.
Malaysia's Felda Global Ventures defends Indonesia deal
- ANN
- 16 June 2015
Acquisition of Eagle High Plantations includes a total land bank of 425,000ha with 67 per cent in Kalimantan and the rest spread across Papua, Sulawesi and Sumatra.
Barnaby Joyce draws line in the soil on foreign farm buyers
- The Australian
- 15 June 2015
Australian Ag Minister supports banning all foreign governments and foreign state-owned companies from buying Australian farmland, saying such acquisitions could “undermine the national interest”.
Kenya: American firm to invest in sugar milling and 5,000-acre cane farm
- The Nation
- 15 June 2015
Dominion Farms intends to convert part of its 17,000-acre land at Yala Swamp to establish a sugar plantation and develop a mill.
Brazil: Demarcation of indigenous lands stalls and violence worsens
- Upside Down World
- 15 June 2015
There have been more than 29 indigenous killed in just three regions of Tumpinambá lands in the state of Bahía, between 2013 and 2015.
Saudi Star donates 26 tractors and 30M Birr to Gambella farmers and youth
- Gambella Media
- 13 June 2015
Saudi Star Agricultural Development PLC is reported to have donated 26 tractors and 30M Birr to Gambella regional state local farmers and youth, where it has acquired a 60-year concession for 10,000 ha.
Sudan police teargas protesters in Khartoum - witnesses
- Reuters
- 12 June 2015
Police in Sudan fired tear gas and wielded batons on Friday to break up a protest in Khartoum against government land policies in which one person is reported to have died.
#NoLandNoLife | An urgent appeal to respect the human rights of the lumads in Mindanao, Philippines and to end the militarization of their communities
- PAN AP
- 11 June 2015
Lumad (indigenous) communities in Mindanao, Philippines appeal to end the militarization of their villages and to stop the human rights abuses by the armed forces.