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Global appetite for agribusiness
- Financial Review
- 03 November 2014
Institutional investors are poised to make grabs for large farmland assets in Australia, according to local and offshore fund managers.
New model contract will help protect developing countries from harmful ‘land grabs’
- IISD
- 03 November 2014
The guide proposes model contract clauses that can fill gaps in domestic law and contribute to promoting more sustainable foreign agricultural investment.
Burma farmers at risk of losing land under legal shift: think tank
- Reuters
- 31 October 2014
Millions of small-scale farmers in Burma risk losing land under proposals to regulate land use which focus too much on investment and not enough on people’s livelihoods.
Laos plans to allow foreigners to purchase land in controversial move
- RFA
- 31 October 2014
Laos is to allow foreign investors to purchase land under a proposed law which some groups say would discriminate against locals and threaten national sovereignty.
They say the land is ‘uninhabited’ but indigenous communities disagree
- IPS
- 31 October 2014
Disregarding the rights of indigenous people to their traditional lands is costing companies millions of dollars each year, and costing communities themselves their lives.
The political ecology of chinese agriculture investment in Uganda: The case of Hanhe Farm
- SAIS
- 31 October 2014
Hanhe Farm, located in Nakaseke Administrative District, is the first private Chinese land-based agriculture enterprise in Uganda.
Land grabbing : Bolloré makes promises, local communities expect actions!
- ReAct
- 31 October 2014
The Bolloré company and the Transnational Alliance of Local Communities of the plantations controlled by the group held a negotiation session during which several commitments were made to resolve local land conflicts.
New UN principles on agricultural investment won’t stop land grabbing or hunger
- Global Witness
- 30 October 2014
After a painstaking two-year negotiation process, the Principles lack the power to change the status quo, whereby corporate profit trumps human rights and the environment.
Declaration and report from the the Africa Conference on Land Grab 2014
- Africa Land Grab
- 30 October 2014
Conference issues a declaration and resolves to form an Africa Coalition Against Land Grabs (ACALG)
Fact sheet: Indigenous peoples' Right to Land - The threat of land grabbing
- IWGIA
- 30 October 2014
Land grabbing is done with limited (if any) consultation of communities, limited (if any) compensation, and lack of regard for environmental sustainability and equitable access to, or control over, natural resources.
Guide to due diligence of agribusiness projects that affect land and property rights
- AFD
- 30 October 2014
This publication draws on the work undertaken by members of the ‘Land Tenure and Development’ Technical Committee set up by French Agency for Development (AFD).
Robb defends foreign investment
- The Land
- 29 October 2014
Australia's Trade Minister Andrew Robb has engaged in a fiery exchange with controversial radio broadcaster Alan Jones over foreign investment in agriculture.