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Africa and Asia farmers protest 'land grab'
- Times Live
- 22 April 2015
Farmers in Africa and Asia on Wednesday announced in a statement a string of protests over a holding company Socfin Bollore's "landgrab" in their areas.
Green tape could kill Ord farm
- West Australian
- 22 April 2015
A Chinese company developing farm land in the Ord River area has warned it will not proceed with the project under a raft of conditions set out by Australia's environmental watchdog.
Republic of Congo to promote foreign investment in agriculture
- UNCTAD
- 22 April 2015
The country will undertake substantial reforms to its investment policy framework in order to attract and benefit more from FDI and promote agricultural development, according to an UNCTAD policy review.
Brazilian agribusiness pushes for reversal of foreign purchase ban
- Agrimoney
- 22 April 2015
The Sociedade Rural Brasileira (SRB), which represents large- and medium-scale farmers, has opened a legal battle to open up land purchases to foreign commercial investors.
Peasant farmers launch series of occupations on Socfin’s plantations
- ReAct
- 22 April 2015
Peasant farmers deprived of their lands launch a series of occupations on Socfin’s plantations in Cameroon, Liberia, Cambodia and Côte d’Ivoire from now until the annual shareholder meetings of the Socfin group (27 May) and the Bolloré group (4 June).
Guyana firm taps equity markets to build fish, plant farm; eyes eventual strategic sale
- Undercurrent
- 21 April 2015
Spinoff of US-based emerging market project developer CARANA Corp plans to eventually operate plant and fish farms on 6,000 acres.
Agri-investors stoke monoculture
- Deutsche Welle
- 21 April 2015
With more savvy investors buying up farmland, land prices have doubled within five years and the result is mega-farms like KTG Agra, which owns 50,000 ha in eastern Germany, Lithuania and Romania.
Canadian fund buys McCamley stations
- Financial Review
- 20 April 2015
One of Canada's largest pension funds, the Public Sector Pension Investment Board, has made its first rural land purchase in Australia through central Queensland's Hewitt Cattle Company.
Super farm sell-off predicted
- Financial Review
- 20 April 2015
Giant US investment fund TIAA-CREF expects Australia's ageing farmers and a lack of sons and daughters willing to inherit their farms will lead to large numbers of properties hitting the market over the coming decade.
Saskatchewan farmers split on allowing pension funds to buy land
- Globe & Mail
- 19 April 2015
Saskatchewan’s move to freeze purchases of farmland by pension plans and foreign investors has ignited a debate over what’s best for the future of Canada’s bread basket.
Government still looking to Merauke for industrial agriculture development
- Awas Mifee
- 17 April 2015
Despite the frequently-voiced opposition by many local indigenous Marind people. The new Indonesia government still looking to continue large-scale mechanised agriculture project, Merauke Integrated Food and Energy Estate.
The World Bank’s long war on peasants
- Telesur
- 17 April 2015
It is difficult to overstate the degree to which the IMF and World Bank’s neoliberal economic policies contribute to extreme vulnerability for farmers and peasants.