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Tanzania: Prisons, Turkish firm in farming partnership
- Daily News
- 07 November 2014
A Turkish agriculture firm, Tarbim, will invest billions of shillings to establish a modern rice farm at Tanzania Prisons Bagamoyo farm.
Yangon statement on human rights and agribusiness in Southeast Asia released
- FPP
- 07 November 2014
Policies to generate foreign investment and commodity exports are imposing heavy costs on communities, such as land grabs, loss of livelihoods, lack of food security, and degradation of the environment and biodiversity.
In Defence of Land in Melanesia: AidWatch Speaking Tour
- AIDWATCH
- 07 November 2014
In the face of various threats to land, Melanesian are struggling to retain control over Melanesia land. Join us in hearing their stories and learn how you can support their struggle.
Swiss banks and institutional investors financing landgrabbing companies
- Bread for All
- 06 November 2014
Report assesses the financial relationships of 17 companies involved in land grabbing, human rights abuses or environmental pollution with 17 selected Swiss banks and institutional investors since January 2011.
Who owns Angola’s land? A problem that needs quick resolution
- Guardian
- 06 November 2014
Angola's rural population could be left behind as large areas are leased to foreign farming and mining companies, instead of providing for those who fled to the cities during the war but are now returning to the countryside.
Three reasons why the 'rai Principles' undermine the right to food, land and resources
- PANAP
- 06 November 2014
PAN Asia Pacific (PANAP) strongly believes that while the rai Principles claims to be rights-based and supposedly recognizes the right to food, its overarching framework and several of its principles actually contradict such claims.
The Philippines: stop the palm oil rush in Palawan
- Rainforest Action Network
- 05 November 2014
The proposal to convert 8 million hectares of land in the Palawan Man & Biosphere Reserve into oil palm plantations casts a harsh light on the Filipino government. Call on the Governor of Palawan to save the reserve.
The vanishing lake
- GlobalPost
- 05 November 2014
Kenya's Lake Turkana is a vital source of life for humans and animals alike. But its lifeline is about to be cut by a push for the development of irrigated plantations.
The march to progress in the Philippines
- Al Jazeera
- 04 November 2014
A tribesman leads his village in resisting the Aurora Pacific Economic Zone (APECO), a land development project that promises progress but threatens his tribe.
PZ-Wilmar JV calls for integration policy In palm oil sector
- Business Day
- 04 November 2014
PZ-Wilmar, a joint venture between two international companies, says it will expand its palm oil production to 240,000 ha of plantations if the government implements a backward integration programme.
Vandebeeck: Why Nigeria is preferred investment destination in Africa
- This Day
- 04 November 2014
"Between now and the next seven, eight years, our Group in Nigeria will have over 100,000 hectares of plantations," says the Chairman of Presco Plc, a company controlled by SIAT of Belgium.
Where’s the evidence that land grabs are good for economic progress?
- Guardian
- 04 November 2014
Many millions of the world’s poorest people face existential threats to house and home.