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Almarai announces new investments, studies acquisition
- MENAFN
- 30 Mar 2015
Almarai said to be among Saudi companies that plan to expand their business in Egypt, along with food oil firm Saffola and Jannat Agriculture Investment Company.
Egypt’s farmland offers minimal incentives to Arab investors
- Egypt Daily News
- 30 Mar 2015
Economist of CI Capital says farming sector requires “more corporatisation”, as the majority of the country’s arable areas of land, largely extending along the river Nile, are family-owned.
29 March “Day of the Landless” Stop land grabbing! Defend human rights!
- PAN AP
- 29 Mar 2015
As the land and resource grabbers remain determined to take away what rightfully belongs to the people, we must be more resolute than ever in our struggle to defend land, resources and human rights. A join statement by landless peasant, farm workers, indigenous community and civil society organisation.
Indonesia: Lives matter most around plantations
- Jakarta Post
- 28 Mar 2015
The recent torture and murder of Indra Pelan is the result of widely entrenched industrial plantation system whereby whole swaths of rural land have been taken from locals without their consent.
Dakar to Tunis: Declaration of the Global Convergence of Land and Water Struggles
- Via Campesina
- 28 Mar 2015
Social movements, grassroots organizations and civil society organizations engaged in the defence of the rights to land and water met at the World Social Forum in Tunis in March 2015 to continue their dialogue with movements and organizations from all over the world in order to broaden this convergence
Can a global map secure land rights for rural peoples?
- Reuters
- 28 Mar 2015
For the 75% of world's population that has no access to formal systems of land registration or other means to safeguard their land rights, large-scale land acquisitions are a particular threat.
APC denounces World Bank’s role in global land grabs
- APC
- 27 Mar 2015
The Asian Peasant Coalition denounces the World Bank on its “16th Conference on Land and Poverty” that brings together corporations, governments and some civil society groups
Naivasha’s Karuturi seals debt buyout deal, planning comeback
- The Standard
- 27 Mar 2015
Deposed Indian flower firm is planning a major comeback to Kenya next month, after entering a debt deal that would enable it retake its vast farms currently under control of its creditor CFC Stanbic Bank.
Burmese leaders outed by Global Witness over alleged land grabs
- The Diplomat
- 27 Mar 2015
A new report reveals the extent of land grabbing in Myanmar, especially along the border with China.
Georgia to curb foreign land sales
- Global Voices
- 27 Mar 2015
A new bill to make it harder for foreigners to buy farmland is part of the current ruling coalition’s move away from the open-door investment policy of the last government.
Indigenous rights ‘denied’
- Phnom Penh Post
- 27 Mar 2015
Land concessions and economic development have trampled efforts by Cambodia's indigenous communities to secure customary lands. In 2015, a report says, 267 Economic Land Concessions occupied 2,196,628 hectares, or more than 60 per cent of Cambodia’s arable land.
#NoLandNoLife Groups to declare 29 March as “Day of the Landless”, launch anti-land grabbing campaign
- PAN AP
- 27 Mar 2015
The PAN Asia Pacific (PANAP) together with farmers, farmworkers, fisherfolk, indigenous peoples, rural women and youth across Asia Pacific declare 29 March as the “Day of the Landless” aims to highlight land and resource grabbing as human rights issue.