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Sugar industry highlights conflicts over trade pacts and land
- New York Times
- 01 October 2013
Activists have called for the exclusion of Cambodian sugar from duty-free treatment in Europe, saying that it triggers corporate land grabs.
Activists doubt Cambodia pledge to stop land concessions
- Wall Street Journal
- 30 September 2013
Activists say the Cambodian government’s freewheeling issuance of land concessions has denuded large swaths of forests, robbed rural communities of their livelihoods and vitality, and could undercut the country’s fragile developmen
Chinese stick to WA farm investment plan
- West Australian
- 30 September 2013
A Chinese conglomerate has hit back at critics of its WA farming operations and vowed to press on with plans to invest hundreds of millions of dollars in an integrated supply chain from Albany to China.
Indonesian plantation monopolies under threat
- food-navigator
- 30 September 2013
The Indonesian Government is planning to crack down on further expansion of groups in the powerful palm oil plantation industry and, indirectly, foreign conglomerates.
Japanese civil society statement on ProSAVANA
- 30 September 2013
We, civil society organizations in Japan, call on the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Japan International Cooperation Agency for the immediate suspension and fundamental review of the ProSAVANA program.
Nampula Civil Society Provincial Platform on ProSavana
- PPOSC-N
- 30 September 2013
Groups say proponents of large-scale agribusiness project are using manipulative and intimidating actions to divide, compartmentalise and weaken Mozambican civil society.
Japanese civil society statement on ProSAVANA
- 30 September 2013
We, civil society organizations in Japan, call on the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) and the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), for the immediate suspension and fundamental review of the ProSAVANA program.
XPCC signs MOU for agricultural projects in the Ukraine
- XPCC
- 28 September 2013
Statement published by Xinjiang Production & Construction Corps' website detailing the MOU it signed for agricultural projects in the Ukraine (with an excerpt translated to English).
COFCO eyes deals for sugar, wine overseas
- China Daily
- 28 September 2013
China National Cereals, Oils and Foodstuffs Corp, known as COFCO, will focus its overseas acquisition drive in the wine and sugar sectors to meet growing demand at home, a senior company official has said.
Ethiopia: Land policy revised
- Africa Intelligence
- 27 September 2013
After enabling foreign firms to grab vast stretches of land, the government has begun to review its land policy.
Cargill may have broken law over Colombia land buying: Oxfam
- Oxfam
- 27 September 2013
Cargill bought a large area of farming land in Colombia many times bigger than the legal limit by setting up dozens of "shell companies", violating the spirit of agrarian reform laws, Oxfam said in a report released.
Karuturi workers demonstrate along Naivasha Nakuru highway over their pay
- KTN
- 26 September 2013
Workers of the troubled Karuturi farms in Kenya went on strike to demand their two months salaries. The incident came two days after four workers tried to commit suicide outside the farm's gates in protest.