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Indofood keen on Luisita sugar mill
- Business Mirror
- 29 October 2013
Indofood is on the lookout to lease and develop parcels of land for large-scale commercial farming.
China land grab hidden by 'corporate veil'
- The Australian
- 29 October 2013
Chinese investors may own less than 1 per cent of Australian farmland, but the true level is not known because it is hidden behind a corporate veil, according to a new report
Ethiopia - Land for sale (Video)
- Journeyman Pictures
- 28 October 2013
Ethiopia's huge agricultural output has brought about an economic miracle for the nation. But inhabitants are being pushed out of their native land by foreign investors and have no share in the profits.
Church in SADC criticises govts for allowing land grabbing
- Zambia Post
- 28 October 2013
Church leaders and activists from six SADC countries appealed to African parliaments to come up with laws that protect land owners, promote land rights and criminalise massive land grabbing.
Lagos acquires 1,000 hectares of land for rice production
- National Mirror
- 26 October 2013
The state government has recently acquired land in Shongai, Benin Republic as part of effort to increase arable farmlands beyond the state’s boundaries for food production.
Mozambique's ProSavana programme – "Open your eyes, you'll lose your land," warns a Brazilian ‘sem-terra’
- SAPO
- 24 October 2013
One of the central figures of the Brazilian ‘sem-terra’ (without land) movement, Augusto Juncal, was in Maputo as a ‘heavyweight reinforcement’ for the campaign by Mozambican small-scale farmers against ProSavana.
Three years of MIFEE: A growing movement against plantations in West Papua
- Awas MIFEE
- 23 October 2013
Throughout Merauke Regency in the southern part of West Papua, a land controversially annexed by Indonesia 50 years ago, indigenous communities are having to learn fast how to resist corporate manipulations.
The Netherlands and the global land and water grab
- TNI
- 23 October 2013
Dutch pension funds, banks and corporations - and even the government - are implicated in the new wave of land and water grabbing worldwide.
Chiza: TZ ripe for progress in agriculture
- The Citizen
- 23 October 2013
Tanzania’s Minister for Agriculture and Food Security was in London where he spoke with investors about investing in Tanzania's agriculture sector.
Bulgaria extends ban on farm land sale to foreigners
- Novinite
- 22 October 2013
Bulgaria’s Parliament has controversially decided to extend the existing moratorium on the sale of agriculture land to foreigners.
Cultivating a fortune: Lebanese agricultural traders GLB move into alfalfa production in Sudan
- Executive Magazine
- 22 October 2013
In 2011, GLB acquired 87,200 hectares of land in Sudan under a 99-year renewable lease and secured the water rights for 900 million cubic meters per annum in deals signed with the Sudanese government.
Australia: Increased farm buyer scrutiny likely
- The Land
- 22 October 2013
The Abbott government's plan to increase scrutiny of foreign farm purchases looks set to pass the Senate despite a simmering internal Coalition row over Chinese investment.