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What is your pension doing in Africa?
- Danchurchaid
- 23 Mar 2015
DanChurchAid, CARE Denmark and MS calls for more transparency of pension investments in African agriculture.
Kick-start meeting: CFS Principles on Responsible Agricultural Investment
- IAFN
- 20 Mar 2015
This week members of the Private Sector Mechanism (PSM) were at the UN FAO Head Quarters in Rome to give their views on how new Principles on Responsible Agricultural Investment can be used to respond to the urgent need to increase global investment in farm production.
World Bank's Conference on Land & Poverty is a cruel farce
- The Ecologist
- 20 Mar 2015
On Monday, March 23th the World Bank's Conference on Land and Poverty begins in the US. But farmer organizations, indigenous groups, trade unions and others denounce the whole exercise as a sham that is all about accelerating corporate land grabs and robbing the poor that the Bank was founded to assist.
Kick-Start Meeting: CFS Principles on Responsible Agricultural Investment
- agrifood.net
- 20 Mar 2015
Members of the Private Sector Mechanism were at the FAO in Rome to give their views on how new Principles on Responsible Agricultural Investment can be used to respond to the urgent need to increase global investment in farm production.
#NoLandNoLife Philippines: Land grabbing through contract farming
- PAN AP
- 20 Mar 2015
PAN Asia Pacific (PANAP) and Asian Peasant Coalition (APC) declaring “Day of the Landless” and launch regional campaign “No Land, No Life!” on March 29, highlighting foreign investments facilitating agribusiness land deals that aggravated landlessness, food insecurity, poverty, and loss of livelihood.
China's Marxist communal farming makes way for agribusiness
- LA Times
- 20 Mar 2015
Most of China's agribusinesses are locally owned, but foreign investors are seeding the market. In rural Anhui province, Cargill recently opened an operation named Site 82 that breeds, slaughters and processes 65 million chickens a year.
Local groups pour capital in agriculture projects
- VietNamNet
- 19 Mar 2015
The head of Hoang Anh Gia Lai Group, Doan Nguyen Duc, now owns 46,000 ha of rubber, 10,000 ha of sugar cane and 6,000 ha of corn in Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia and Myanmar and plans to raise 236,000 cows in Laos.
Illovo Sugar Limited Launches its Group Guidelines on Land and Land Rights
- Illovo
- 19 Mar 2015
Illovo Sugar Limited is pleased to announce the launch of its Group Guidelines on Land and Land Rights.
The great land giveaway in Mozambique
- Triple Crisis Blog
- 18 Mar 2015
What may end up dooming the ProSavana project in Mozambique is farmers’ growing awareness of the threat to their land, and their capacity to resist.
EU agricultural imports linked to illegal deforestation, study claims
- EurActiv
- 18 Mar 2015
The European Union is one of the world’s largest importers of agricultural goods from illegally deforested land, a report published 17 March by Fern, a green NGO, has found.
Putting the brakes on New Alliance land grabs
- ActionAid
- 18 Mar 2015
What kind of role should the private sector have in the post-2015 fight against poverty and food insecurity? And how should EU governments ensure it is genuinely inclusive and responsible? Yaekob Metena explores the possibilities.
Vietnam's business tycoons turn to farming
- Thanh Nien News
- 18 Mar 2015
A series of private Vietnamese giants have expanded their investment in the agriculture sector, sinking hundreds of millions of dollars in cattle breeding and growing sugarcane and maize.