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On our land
- Oakland Institute
- 06 December 2013
Film chronicles the experiences of communities in PNG--giving a voice to those who are losing their land and natural resources to illegal logging operations and palm oil companies.
World's biggest palm oil company pledges to halt deforestation
- businessGreen
- 06 December 2013
Wilmar says it will ensure that its own plantations and companies from which it sources only provide products that are “free from links to deforestation or abuse of human rights and local communities”.
Farm-buyers face new rules
- NZ Herald
- 06 December 2013
Labour bill aims to make it more difficult for foreign investors to purchase rural land
Tanzania: Japan's Nitori to invest Sh900 billion in cotton farming
- Tanzania Daily News
- 06 December 2013
The Japan investor has secured 40,000 hectares of land for commercial cotton farming in Handeni District where it will open a cotton farm and a processing plant.
Ethiopia's stolen land
- Le Monde diplomatique
- 05 December 2013
Government plans to reform Ethiopia’s agriculture failed to consider the country’s peasant culture, subsistence farming and basic needs, letting the corporations take the most fertile land from peasant farmers.
Brazil’s development bank heads for Africa
- This is Africa
- 05 December 2013
BNDES will open its first Africa office as it looks to finance the expansion of Brazilian companies across the continent
Central Africa takes steps to improve agricultural investment
- IISD
- 05 December 2013
Over sixty parliamentarians from Central Africa met in Malabo, the capital of Equatorial Guinea, to discuss how to promote sustainable agricultural investment.
Brazilian indigenous leader murdered
- World Bulletin
- 04 December 2013
A Brazilian indigenous leader who spent decades campaigning for his tribe’s right to live on their ancestral land was murdered on Sunday night
Africa's vanishing forests
- On Earth
- 04 December 2013
That palm oil listed in the ingredients of your favorite candy bar or lipstick? More and more of it comes from forest and farmland razed by multinational corporations a world away.
Tanzania: Govt pledges to continue supporting Rubada
- Tanzania Daily News
- 03 December 2013
The government pledges to continue supporting Rufiji Basin Development Authority (RUBADA) in its endeavour to encourage large scale plantations in the country
Deutsche Bank fund sells stake in controversial firm
- Deutsche Welle
- 03 December 2013
Germany's largest bank, Deutsche Bank, confirms that one of its funds has sold its shareholding in a Vietnamese company accused of rights abuses in Laos and Cambodia.
Institutions are blazing a trail in CIS farming
- Moscow Times
- 02 December 2013
Interest in farming from a new class of institutional investors — including hedge, endowment, pension, private equity and sovereign wealth funds — has surged.