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Communities as counterparties
- Global Landscapes Forum
- 18 November 2014
Review of concessions and conflict in eight emerging and frontier markets finds more than 93% of mining, oil & gas, logging, and agriculture developments involve inhabited land.
Tony Tiu's AgriNurture swings to loss
- ABS-CBN
- 17 November 2014
Farming revenues also plunged 64 percent, as AgriNurture closed its rice farming operations.
What is inclusive agricultural growth?
- PLAAS
- 17 November 2014
Agricultural investment, productivity and land rights in the context of large-scale investments
Australia: US fund pays $30m for Queensland grain farms
- Financial Review
- 17 November 2014
Black River Asset Management, a subsidiary of Cargill, one of the world's biggest food producers, has bought four grain-producing farms in the Darling Downs farming region between Dalby and Chinchilla.
Gina Rinehart plots $500m China baby formula move
- Bloomberg
- 14 November 2014
Mining billionaire Gina Rinehart is teaming up with the China National Machinery Industry Corporation to acquire a 5,000 ha dairy farm in Queensland to supply infant formula to China.
Africa takes first important step in tackling large scale land-based investments
- UNECA
- 14 November 2014
Continental efforts to adopt land policies for inclusive and sustainable development took a step forward with the official launch of the AU's Guiding Principles on Large Scale Land Based Investments in Africa
Return of the Roman General: Land grabbing in Western Romania
- arc2020
- 14 November 2014
What is the underlying rational for an Italian insurance company to invest in farmland in Romania?
Papua-wide meeting calls for 10 year moratorium on plantation and forestry industries
- Awas Mifee
- 14 November 2014
Indigenous communities, environmentalists and human rights defenders of West Papua gathered in Jayapura, 4-7 November 2014, to discuss problems linked to rapidly expanding plantations.
Africa Works! 2014 - Interview with Josh Maiyo
- Africa Works!
- 13 November 2014
Interview with Josh Maiyo of VU University Amsterdam about foreign investments in agriculture and land in Uganda.
Big foreign money is being poured into Africa's agriculture - sadly it is not to grow food
- Mail & Guardian
- 13 November 2014
Small-holder farmers hold key to Africa's food security, but are often excluded from debates on agricultural investments.
H&M disputes Ethiopia cotton land-grabbing claims
- just-style
- 12 November 2014
Fashion retailer has instructed its suppliers to ensure they do not use cotton from the Omo Valley, where there is an increased risk of land-grabbing - but admits it cannot provide an absolute guarantee.
Lack of scale crushing the Ord Irrigation Scheme's sugar dream
- ABC
- 12 November 2014
Pressure is mounting on the Northern Territory Government to make land available for a Chinese company, as it struggles to progress environmental approvals and negotiate with the Indigenous Traditional Owners.