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‘There is no voice of real farmers’
- Mizzima
- 09 December 2014
"We are in the middle of a land-grabbing storm.” Draft land use policy dismays farmers and ethnic minority groups
Palm oil and extreme violence in Honduras: The inexorable rise and dubious reform of Grupo Dinant
- TruthOut
- 08 December 2014
A lucrative agro-industrial crop like palm oil, in a context of entrenched corruption and an authoritarian regime, lends itself to land grabbing and agrarian violence.
Hawke lobbied for China in Ord
- West Australian
- 08 December 2014
Former Australian prime minister Bob Hawke lobbied Colin Barnett to allow a Chinese company to buy a large package of land in the Ord River.
Pakistan invites energy, farm investments
- Gulf Times
- 08 December 2014
Pakistan, which is currently in negotiations with Qatar for liquefied natural gas supplies, has opened its farm sector to investments from Qatar, which has placed utmost priority on food security.
Fighting the injustice of landgrabs in Africa
- NCR
- 08 December 2014
Imperialism today is no longer conducted by nation-states but, instead, by multi-national corporations but the essence of the saga is unchanged: A poor continent is being raped by powerful, wealthy Westerners.
Clean Sugar Campaign public statement: Commencement of Cambodian 'blood sugar' reparations process a crucial step towards justice
- Clean Sugar Campaign
- 07 December 2014
Commencement of a joint EU-Cambodia process to assess displacement claims pertaining to sugarcane plantations in Cambodia pivotal step towards justice for thousands of Cambodian suffered at the hands of sugar industry.
ITB: Bread and Soil: the scramble for land
- BBC
- 06 December 2014
Vast global land transactions take place as nations scramble to ensure they can eat. But are these deals always fair? And what happens when yield countries change their mind?
Counting the cost of food security for the world's richest nations
- BBC
- 05 December 2014
Qatar joins a growing list of countries that includes other Gulf states, India, China and South Korea, that are not just importing food but buying the land abroad on which it is grown.
Japan’s Itochu and CP Group said in talks to invest in Citic
- Bloomberg
- 05 December 2014
Talks with CITIC follow July agreement on business alliance between Itochu, Japan’s third-largest trading company, and the CP Group in an attempt to expand food supply in the world’s most populous region.
Years from the agreement: What’s happening in the community?
- Africa Japan Forum
- 05 December 2014
Japanese NGOs’ fact-finding on ProSAVANA, an agricultural development program implemented in Mozambique by Japanese Official Development Assistance.
Foreign group testing ownership rules
- Western Producer
- 05 December 2014
Non-Canadian owned Skyline Agriculture Financial Corp’s plan could open Saskatchewan to more foreign investment in farmland.
DRC: handing lands for industrial oil palm plantations, REDD and foreign investors
- WRM
- 04 December 2014
Scrutiny of Feronia's oil palm project shows one more example of many that follow a wave of foreign investment in African farmland, leading to land grabs and conflicts.