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Ugandan court orders compensation for Kaweri Coffee Plantation evictees of
- FIAN
- 11 April 2013
The High Court in Kampala ordered that approximately eleven million euros of compensation be paid to the 2,041 people evicted from their land 13 years ago.
Protecting land rights with Wikipedia-style maps
- Trustlaw
- 11 April 2013
Building land inventories, Wikipedia-style, would be a cheap and easy way for poor, rural communities to compile a record of property rights and land usage patterns and could reduce corruption and help lessen illegal land grabs.
Österreich soll Landraub in Sierra Leone finanzieren
- Heute
- 11 April 2013
Nationale und internationale Nichtregierungsorganisationen (NGOs) erheben schwere Vorwürfe gegen Österreich. Indirekt werde von der Österreichischen Entwicklungsbank (OeEB), ein Unternehmen der Republik Österreich, ein Projekt finanziert, das Landraub (Landgrabbing) in Sierra Leone betreibe.
World Bank: Access to land is critical for the poor
- This Day
- 11 April 2013
"The World Bank has launched a consultative process with all stakeholders to review and update our environmental and social safeguards policies, which will be informed by the VGs. Land acquisition is a part of this conversation."
EU urges investment drive in African farm sector
- Reuters
- 10 April 2013
European companies must invest more in Africa's agricultural sector to keep pace with growing interest from countries such as China and Brazil, the bloc's top farm official said on Wednesday.
Stop land grab in Hungary!
- LMV
- 10 April 2013
La Via Campesina, Transnational Institute, World March of Women and some other organizations approved a statement supporting the struggle against land grab in Hungary.
Egypt aims to become self-sufficient in sunflower oil by using farmland provided by neighboring Sudan
- Global Post
- 09 April 2013
Private Egyptian investors to plant sunflower on 210,000ha of land earmarked for joint agricultural projects under a deal reached by President Mohamed Mursi and President Hassan Omar al-Bashir.
More needs to be done to curb land grabbing
- The Citizen
- 09 April 2013
Tanzania's The Citizen says land grabbing is a potentially explosive issue that needs to be addressed as a matter of urgency before it leads to widespread violence and bloodletting.
Broken promises: rural women hit hardest by corporate land deals
- Oxfam
- 09 April 2013
Small-scale women farmers are the backbone of Africa's food system, but, as corporations buy up huge swathes of rural land, they are losing out at every turn. Marc Wegerif introduces a new Oxfam briefing paper.
Al-Amoudi’s Horizon eyes global banana market following acquisition of enterprises
- Capital Ethiopia
- 09 April 2013
Horizon Plantations, an emerging agro-specialized business owned by Sheikh Mohammed Hussein al-Amoudi, plans to compete with world’s leading banana producers following acquisition of several state enterprises.
Ram Karuturi mulls taking his rose-to-maize company private
- Business Today
- 09 April 2013
Sai Ramakrishna Karuturi feels a growing sense of unease these days. It stems from an email that Karuturi received on March 7. The sender wrote he had lost Rs 7 lakh by investing in Karuturi Global Ltd's shares.
“I would rather have my land back”: Subaltern voices and corporate/state land grab in the Save Valley
- LDPI
- 08 April 2013
Under an obscure 50,000 ha land deal with Macdom and Rating Investments, 250,000 communal farmers stand to lose or have already lost their lands and livelihoods.