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True Milk opens 1 billion USD plant in Moscow
- Vietnam+
- 01 April 2015
Vietnamese dairy firm TH True Milk will open a US$1 billion dairy in a Moscow suburb that will produces its own animal feed and breed its own cows
UAE’s food imports to rise to $400b in 10 years
- Gulf News
- 31 Mar 2015
The UAE import 85 per cent of its food, and the government plans to develop farmland in other countries — due to the lack of arable lands in the UAE — to secure food supplies amid increasing demand.
Soros ‘ready to invest’ in Ukraine
- EurActiv
- 31 Mar 2015
George Soros is ready to invest $1 billion in agriculture and infrastructure projects in Ukraine if Western countries help private investment there.
Land grabbing in Romania
- Eco Ruralis
- 31 Mar 2015
The Romanian NGO Eco Ruralis has published several fact sheets on foreign companies grabbing farmland in Romania, including Padova Agricultura, Riso Scotti, Generali, and Bardeau.
AAF ESG Annual Report 2014
- Phatisa
- 31 Mar 2015
African Agriculture Fund Environmental, Social and Governance Annual Report 2014
Almarai announces new investments, studies acquisition
- MENAFN
- 30 Mar 2015
Almarai said to be among Saudi companies that plan to expand their business in Egypt, along with food oil firm Saffola and Jannat Agriculture Investment Company.
Egypt’s farmland offers minimal incentives to Arab investors
- Egypt Daily News
- 30 Mar 2015
Economist of CI Capital says farming sector requires “more corporatisation”, as the majority of the country’s arable areas of land, largely extending along the river Nile, are family-owned.
29 March “Day of the Landless” Stop land grabbing! Defend human rights!
- PAN AP
- 29 Mar 2015
As the land and resource grabbers remain determined to take away what rightfully belongs to the people, we must be more resolute than ever in our struggle to defend land, resources and human rights. A join statement by landless peasant, farm workers, indigenous community and civil society organisation.
Indonesia: Lives matter most around plantations
- Jakarta Post
- 28 Mar 2015
The recent torture and murder of Indra Pelan is the result of widely entrenched industrial plantation system whereby whole swaths of rural land have been taken from locals without their consent.
Dakar to Tunis: Declaration of the Global Convergence of Land and Water Struggles
- Via Campesina
- 28 Mar 2015
Social movements, grassroots organizations and civil society organizations engaged in the defence of the rights to land and water met at the World Social Forum in Tunis in March 2015 to continue their dialogue with movements and organizations from all over the world in order to broaden this convergence
Can a global map secure land rights for rural peoples?
- Reuters
- 28 Mar 2015
For the 75% of world's population that has no access to formal systems of land registration or other means to safeguard their land rights, large-scale land acquisitions are a particular threat.
APC denounces World Bank’s role in global land grabs
- APC
- 27 Mar 2015
The Asian Peasant Coalition denounces the World Bank on its “16th Conference on Land and Poverty” that brings together corporations, governments and some civil society groups