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FGV scouts for land in Asean, Africa
- Business Times
- 27 August 2013
FELDA Global Ventures Holdings Bhd (FGV) is scouting for oil palm land in the Asean region, Cameroon and Nigeria.
Brunei firm invests P1.3B to boost BIMP-EAGA
- Manila Bulletin
- 26 August 2013
Filipino firm SL Agritech Corp. and Brunei firm Four Bays Iman Sdn Bhd (FISB) have tied up for a 20,000 ha hybrid rice plantation in Mindanao.
Foreign investors key for dairy: MG
- Weekly Times Now
- 26 August 2013
Australia's Murray Goulburn Co-operative says it plans to bypass traditional bank lending by forging alliances with international investors to support dairy farms.
Colombia nationwide strike against 'free trade,' privatization, poverty
- Common Dreams
- 26 August 2013
At least 200,000 people blocked roads and launched protests across Colombia against free trade agreements, land grabs and other policies of poverty and privatization pushed by US-backed right-wing President Juan Manuel Santos.
Pinda scoffs at perpetrators of land grabbing allegations
- The Citizen
- 24 August 2013
Tanzania's Prime Minister Mizengo Pinda said allegations that a large portion of arable land had been taken over by foreigners at the expense of local people were not true.
Survey reveals Aussies concerned about selling the farm
- ABC
- 23 August 2013
The ABC's Vote Compass has revealed that three-quarters of Australians want more restrictions on foreign ownership of agricultural land.
When a traditional past collides with an irrigated future
- Think Africa Press
- 21 August 2013
Are the government's large-scale developments in southern Ethiopia forcing local populations to move with the times or just move out the way?
Rising Temperature, Rising Food Prices
- 21 August 2013
Since 1970, the earth’s average temperature has risen more than 1 degree Fahrenheit. If we continue with business as usual, burning ever more oil, coal, and natural gas, it is projected to rise some 11 degrees Fahrenheit (6 degrees Celsius) by the end of this century.
We don't have life without land: Holding ground in Honduras
- Toward Freedom
- 20 August 2013
Bajo Aguán, a fertile agricultural region in the north of Honduras, might at first glance look like paradise. But in fact, it is part of a historic land struggle and the site of a an undeclared and largely invisible war, where only one side has arms.
Africa has spoken! First ever Pan African Land Grab Hearing
- Oxfam
- 20 August 2013
Hearing gives voice to the stories of communities affected by land grabs in Africa and brings the land grab issue to policy makers and influential people and groups.
Myanmar farmers call for amendments to land law
- RFA
- 20 August 2013
Farmers in Burma have drawn up a list of 17 demands they plan to submit to legislators in a bid to amend the country’s land laws and provide greater protection against forced evictions.
2013 SADC Peoples Summit: Peasants and rural women propose solutions and demand immediate action!
- sadcpeoplessummit.org
- 18 August 2013
Land grabbing of perceived “idle” and “underutilized” land must be stopped and investments, which are pro-poor, environmentally and ecologically should be promoted.