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The next breadbasket
- National Geographic
- 27 June 2014
Can Africa's fertile farmland feed the world?
Private investment urged to ensure food security
- The Peninsula
- 27 June 2014
The GCC businessmen's body has called on the region's private sector to come together and jointly invest in agriculture, fishing and livestock breeding locally as well as overseas
Sokoto to allocate 33,000 ha of farmland to Dangote – commissioner
- Blueprint
- 26 June 2014
Nigeria's Sokoto state government has approved the allocation of 33,000 hectares of farmland to Dangote Group of companies for the plantation of sugarcane.
FGV hopes to meet NBPOL advisers soon
- The Star
- 26 June 2014
Felda hopes to acquire New Britain Palm Oil Ltd, which has 77,000ha of oil palm plantations, 7,700ha of sugar cane plantations and 9,200ha of grazing pastures in Papua New Guinea.
Rabo Farm, Poleko and Van Kessel sign letter of intent during the state visit of the Dutch King and Queen to Poland
- Rabobank
- 26 June 2014
The three parties expressed their intention to strengthen the co-operation in the field of reshaping and draining agricultural land belonging to Rabo Farm in the Zulawy delta in the North of Poland, close to Gdansk.
Canadian firm to launch Shari’ah-compliant farmland investments
- CPI Financial
- 25 June 2014
AGInvest Properties, which owns and manages farmland across Ontario, Canada, has entered into a Shari’ah Advisory agreement with Shariyah Review Bureau to attract Islamic investors in Canada, GCC and elsewhere.
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.