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Myanmar farmers helpless against land grabbing
- AP
- 11 October 2013
Foreign investors, often working with current or former military officials, are scrambling to build roads, factories, power plants, bridges and industrial-sized plantations.
Flower growers in Kenya strike against Karuturi Global
- CorpWatch
- 10 October 2013
Flower growers in Kenya have gone on strike to protest unpaid wages from Karuturi Global, the Indian flower export multinational.
Briefing: Responsible agricultural investment
- Glopolis
- 10 October 2013
In the occasion of Committe on World Food Security session in Rome Glopolis is publishing a briefing on responsible agricultural investment which is one of the main issues discussing during this forum.
Investors must surrender Idle farmland-President Jakaya Kikwete
- Tanzania Daily News
- 09 October 2013
Tanzania's President says hoarding large chunks of land without developing them for years retards national development and impoverishes subsistence farmers.
Cotu demands the arrest of Naivasha Karuturi officials
- The Standard
- 09 October 2013
Central Organisation of Trade Unions has called for the immediate arrest and prosecution of the management of a flower farm owned by the Indian company, Karuturi.
Foreign buyer for Northern Territory farm
- North Queensland Register
- 08 October 2013
The Insight Global Farmland Fund, has snapped up Forrest Hill Station in the Northern Territory and all its cattle for $6.4 million in a deal negotiated by Elders.
What does Ukraine stand to gain from farming deal with China?
- Epoch Times
- 07 October 2013
A deal signed between Ukrainian and Chinese authorities last month may impact up to 3 million hectares of prime farmland in Eastern Ukraine, a space roughly the size of Belgium.
No land no food no life
- Films de l'Oeil
- 07 October 2013
The film "No Land No Food No Life" examines the challenges and struggles farmers face despite the exultation they experience in their fight to retain control of their land.
Cargill misses the point on land acquisitions in Colombia
- Oxfam
- 04 October 2013
Now the government of President Santos seems to be pressing for reforms to the law that would enable further concentration of land in Colombia, even though this would be incoherent with the government’s own commitments to date in the peace talks.
The Governance of Large-Scale Farmland Investments in Sub-Saharan Africa
- Eburon Delft
- 03 October 2013
The primary aim of this book is to advance the understanding of the regulatory conditions under which large-scale farmland investments can contribute to sustainable development in sub-Saharan Africa.
NGOs call for review of Mozambique farm project
- Jiji Press
- 03 October 2013
Five Japanese nongovernmental organizations have called for a review of a Japanese government-backed large-scale farm development project in Mozambique.
Seeds of discontent
- FIAN
- 02 October 2013
Swedish, Norwegian and Dutch investors in Mozambique land grab: powerful new documentary gives a compelling visual portrait of how investment by private financial players can undermine food security and human rights in developing countries.