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The land-grab trap: Is there a will to govern global land grabbing?
- Focaal Blog
- 19 September 2014
Will the CSM get caught up in a hegemonic “land-grab trap” standing in for principles that turned out weak and entirely outside of their control?
Twiggy bets on China food boom
- The Land
- 19 September 2014
The chairman of the New Hope Group is a key Chinese partner in the Sino-Australia 100-Year Agricultural and Food Safety Partnership-- an initiative founded by mining billionaire Andrew Forrest
Karuturi fails to comply with SEBI
- Business Standard
- 18 September 2014
Move to seek an extension of AGM date comes after a series of issues it has been facing at its expansive roses farms in Kenya and allegations of land grab at its ambitious agriculture foray in Ethiopia.
Ethiopian Government Campaign of Murder in Gambela
- Anywaa Survival Organisation
- 18 September 2014
September 11: eight ethnic Majengir murdered by in cold blood by Ethiopian highlanders in Godere District, Gambela as tensions between settlers and indigenous peoples escalate.
FGCCC calls for expanded role of sovereign funds in agro investments
- Arab News
- 17 September 2014
Secretary General of the Federation of GCC Chambers Abdulrahim Hasan Naqi has stressed the need to expand the role of sovereign funds to have investments in agriculture.
Nigeria: Group announces $2.2m rice farming investment
- This Day
- 17 September 2014
WEMS Agro Companies Limited plans to invest about $2.2 million into rice cultivation ‎in a 25,000 ha rice project in Ondo state with Chinese partners.
Not so mega? The risky business of large-scale public-private partnerships in African agriculture
- Oxfam
- 16 September 2014
Oxfam policy adviser Robin Willoughby shrugs off the big ag groupthink and argues that the current trend of mega projects in African agriculture is a risky and unproven way to help poor farmers.
Chinese investment fund to tip billions into Australian farm projects
- ABC
- 16 September 2014
While Chinese investors, like Ms Qiao, are in Australia looking at farms, an Australian real estate company has headed to China to find buyers for Australian farming properties.
Ethiopian government campaign of murder in Gambela
- ASO
- 16 September 2014
The cause of this high level insecurity and loss of innocent peoples' lives is a government policy to take away the indigenous communities land and give it to so called investors both foreigners and Ethiopian highlanders.
Interview with Martin Richenhagen, Chairman, President and CEO of AGCO Corporation
- African Agribusiness
- 15 September 2014
AGCO CEO says his company is planning to have a second “future farm” in Nigeria because it’s also a very big market. AGCO's first "future farm' is in Zambia.
Landgrabbing continues unabated worldwide
- Nyéléni Newsletter
- 15 September 2014
This edition of the Nyéléni Newsletter provides an overview of the process landgrabbing and of the possibilities of resisting it from our communities.
Women agricultural workers crave fair working conditions
- FIAN
- 15 September 2014
Publication by FIAN International discusses the discriminatory working conditions women agricultural workers endure, as well as their contribution to the food and nutrition security of their families and communities.