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The Freetown Declaration
- Green Scenery
- 24 June 2014
180 citizens of Sierra Leone propose measures to combat land grabbing at the National Conference on Land and the Constitution in Freetown.
SiLNoRF and Bread For All release 2014 Annual Monitoring Report on the Addax Bioenergy Project in Sierra Leone
- SiLNoRF
- 24 June 2014
The Sierra Leone Network on the Right to Food and Bread For All release this year’s Monitoring Report on the sugarcane-to-ethanol project of the Swiss firm Addax Bioenergy.
Communities protest that UK’s Equatorial Palm Oil is poised to seize land in Liberia
- Global Witness
- 24 June 2014
Members of the Jogbahn Clan will deliver a petition with over 90,000 signatures reminding company that it does not have community consent to expand onto their lands.
Questions to answer for Tate & Lyle in Cambodian land-grabbing action
- food-navigator
- 24 June 2014
This month, one of Britain’s biggest sugar producing companies resigned from a voluntary ethical sugar initiative it founded amid suggestions of illegal land-grabbing.
Survey reveals foreign ownership of farmland on the rise
- The Age
- 24 June 2014
A new survey reports that foreign ownership of Australian farmland grew by 4.7 million hectares in just two-and-a-half years.
Fury over Senegal’s private land buyers
- IRIN
- 24 June 2014
A liberal land regime in Senegal over the decade has favoured large-scale acquisitions of arable land by both foreign and local investors.
IFC invests up to $250 million in poultry producer MHP to fuel Ukraine agribusiness
- IFC
- 24 June 2014
The World Bank's IFC is providing $250 million in debt financing to Ukraine's leading poultry producer Myronivsky Hliboproduct, which has a land bank of 320,000 ha in Ukraine and 40,000 ha in Russia.
Rural land grab has unleashed mass dislocation, imposed financial risks on Ethiopia – while benefitting some investors: Case Karuturi
- Ethiopia Observatory
- 24 June 2014
The entire edifice of Karuturi's enterprise, especially the Gambella 300,000 ha, is allegedly founded on corruption (bribery) and too many lies, writes The Ethiopian Observatory.
Zambia: Government opposes land allocation to investor
- Zambia Daily Mail
- 23 June 2014
The Central Province government opposes the allocation of 10,000 ha of land in Serenje’s Mphande area by Chief Chibale to Blackstar Investment which might result in over 1,300 people being displaced.
Saudi’s Almarai, Pepsico to invest at least $345m in Egypt
- Reuters
- 22 June 2014
Investment plans include a new dairy farm of 5,000 cows and eventually another farm of 20,000 cows that will be the biggest in Egypt.
Zimbabwe: ‘Commercial land deals leave communities in quandary’
- The Standard
- 22 June 2014
Large scale commercial land deals at Nuanetsi Ranch, Chisumbanje and Chiadzwa are mired in corruption and end up impacting on livelihoods of communities.
PNG: NEC scraps the controversial SABL leases after months of waiting
- PNG Loop
- 20 June 2014
The Papua New Guinea government is cancelling all Special Agriculture and Business Leases obtained illegally, and will abolish provisions of the Land Act which allows for SABLs to be granted.