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ADB to increase its lending to agri-business companies -official
- Dow Jones
- 25 September 2013
The Asian Development Bank plans to pick up direct equity stakes in food and agri-business enterprises in the region next year, a senior official said.
SDI calls on the Government of Liberia, Equatorial Palm Oil to immediately cease land survey in Grand Bassa District #4
- SDI
- 25 September 2013
A paramilitary unit of the Liberia National Police was deployed into the area after residents attempted to halt the survey.
Investors risk billions by overlooking potential land conflicts, study shows
- Mongabay
- 24 September 2013
Indigenous communities have claims to nearly one third of all land granted in commercial land concessions in 12 countries analyzed by a new report.
Ukrainian agricultural giant denies farmland deal with China
- Radio Free Europe
- 24 September 2013
Ukraine's government-controlled agricultural firm KSG Agro has denied recent Chinese media reports on an alleged agreement that would have seen China leasing 3 million hectares of Ukrainian farmland for the next 50 years.
Confluence Sugar partners Big Group on N77bn project
- Daily Newswatch
- 23 September 2013
Project is led by International Trans Oil USA and the BIG Group of the USA and Ukraine and inlcudes a 32,000 hectare sugar plantation in Ibaji, Kogi state.
World Bank’s land strategy: One step forward, two steps back
- Oakland Institute
- 23 September 2013
World bank rekindles assumptions that land registration would give farmers access to low-cost credit, improve yields, and that Africa has abundant “surplus land” which should be delineated and identified in order to be acquired by land developers.
Ukraine to become China's largest overseas farmer in 3m hectare deal
- SCMP
- 22 September 2013
Under the 50-year plan, Ukraine will initially provide China with at least 100,000 hectares - an area almost the size of Hong Kong - of high-quality farmland in the eastern Dnipropetrovsk region
NGOs call on PNG PM to revoke controversial land leases
- Act Now!
- 22 September 2013
Act Now! and Bismarck Ramu Group call on PM to cancel special agriculture and business leases, saying that already 5 million ha of lands in Papua New Guinea have been swallowed up by foreign companies.
Investors should work with farmers, not grab their land
- Guardian
- 20 September 2013
Industrialised countries should do more to persuade companies that investing in, and working with, farmers makes more business sense than buying their land, says FAO senior economist
The new scramble for Africa
- Al Jazeera
- 20 September 2013
On Al Jazeera’s talk show South2North, Redi Tlhabi debates the new scramble for Africa with former Mozambican president Joaquim Chissano, Nigerian politician Nkoyo Toyo and Philippe Heilberg, a land investor from the US.
Hunger, food security, and the African land grab
- Ethics & International Affairs
- 19 September 2013
Food companies in the North have always purchased land in the global South to produce export crops. What is different today is the unprecedented scale of these purchases and the kinds of crops that are being grown.
Agricultural systems with pro-poor orientation in Mozambique? ProSAVANA and the forgotten risks of contract farming
- UNU-WIDER
- 19 September 2013
This article documents some of the ProSAVANA programme’s practices during its planning phase and analyses its limitations in terms of preventing the inherent risks of contract farming schemes.