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Global land grabs on Valentine’s Day at IATP
- 14 February 2013
Video of the seminar on global land grabs and food sovereignty featuring Alexandra Spieldoch, Jim Harkness of IATP and Redwan Hamaza of the Oromia Human Rights and Justice Council.
Vanderbilt University divests from "land grab" in Africa
- Oakland Institute
- 13 February 2013
This historic divestment marks the first full divestment made by Vanderbilt in response to student pressure
Swedish buffer fund AP2 seeks to grow timber, agricultural portfolio
- IPE
- 13 February 2013
Sweden's second buffer fund hopes to increase its agricultural and timberland investments beyond the current 10% strategic benchmark for real estate, the fund's chief investment strategist has told IPE
Agriterra grows in cocoa with Sierra Leone deal
- Agrimoney
- 13 February 2013
Agriterra revealed headway in its long-held desire to expand into cocoa production, acquiring 1,750 hectares of plantations, and forecasting further purchases with a windfall from a sale of oil interests.
Indonesia plans to expand palm oil, cocoa plantations to Nigeria
- Xinhua
- 13 February 2013
"Nigeria has offered land for us, no matter how large we need," says Indonesian Industry Minister MS Hidayat
Corporations, investors 'grabbing' land and water overseas
- Mother Nature Network
- 12 February 2013
There is little international policing of land deals resulting in local farmers being forced off lands and deeper into poverty.
Lobby wants land grabbers stopped
- The Citizen
- 11 February 2013
“We are not against land investments, but the land should not be given out to foreigners. Citizens should reserve the right to access it,” says Mr Bernard Baha of ActionAid in Tanzania.
Burma ‘latest flashpoint’ in global land grabbing epidemic
- DVB
- 11 February 2013
Burma has become the “latest flashpoint in an alarming trend” of global land grabs, which continue to wreak havoc on economic development and human rights around the world, two new reports have warned.
To be expected: Faulty land matrix database goes academic…
- Oil for Food
- 11 February 2013
The continuous hyping of large and unverified figures does a disservice to the important issues that are at stake.
Land grabbing in a forgotten country – MIFEE-affected villager visits Netherlands
- Awas MIfee
- 11 February 2013
‘Feed Indonesia, then feed the world’. Backed by this slogan Indonesia companies, and companies from South Korea, China and Singapore as well, are buying land in the Indonesian province of West Papua in order to grow crops.
Ethiopians 'driven out in land grabs'
- UPI
- 08 February 2013
Thousands of Ethiopians are being driven off their ancestral land that the government's selling without their consent to foreign investors buying up vast swathes of farmland, a U.S. watchdog reports.
Agricultural investment opportunities, best practices and innovations define CMT’s 3rd Commercial Farm Africa Summit
- Business Wire
- 08 February 2013
Speakers to include reps from IFC, Phatisa, AAF, Ruchi Soya, Vita Rice, Swiss Re, ECOWAS, and the Government of Ghana.