This report provides an analysis of Senhuile’s investment in Fanaye and Ndiael over the past four years, stressing serious shortcomings on the part of the company
- Actionaid
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21 October 2014
A new report by FIAN informs about the human rights violations of communities affected by land grabbing in Mali
Pakistan is now turning to agribusiness rather than land sales as a means of luring Gulf investment.
Some Australian farmers are voicing their concerns about the growing presence of foreign investment in their region.
Listed Singaporean company QAF, formerly known as Bunge, has sold out its last dairy farm in Australia to the European pension fund-backed ACE Farming for close to $5 million.
We call on civil society, social movements, NGOs and trade unions from the Africa Social Forum to endorse this declaration and support its claims by all available means.
The increase of international corporate land grabbing with the collusion of state Ministers, Senators and bureacrats has exacerbated the situation of unemployment and food insecurity in Pakistan
- Pakistan Observer
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18 October 2014
Agricultural commercialisation concessions are contracts between governments and agribusiness companies for control over the supply of inputs and purchase of farm produce in a given geographical area.
Zambian government says about 3,000 hectares of land was available for the Chinese province to establish its agricultural production and assured it of the Zambian government's support and cooperation.
Big institutional investors are being encouraged to get a slice of Australia's $1.6 billion market in annual water trading as a way to buy into agriculture.
A consortium hoping to buy dozens of south-west dairy farms aims to operate “on a scale not considered in Australia before,” a spokesman for the consortium says.
- The Standard
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17 October 2014
Land grabs in the developing world create a system so unequal that resource-rich countries become resource dependent.