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“Unheard voices” speak out
- Oakland Institute
- 05 February 2013
Indigenous Ethiopians demand a stop to human rights abuses stemming from agricultural investment policies
Global land grab brings investment risk, communities react to economic harm, rights abuses
- RRI
- 05 February 2013
Risk analysts show that operational cost increases can approach 2,800 percent; Myanmar is latest flashpoint in alarming trend
Minister of Agriculture meets Iranian Ambassador
- SUNA
- 02 February 2013
Sudan's Minister of Agriculture discusses aspects of joint cooperation with Iran in sugar beet crops, cotton, oilseeds and rice, expressing his ministry's keenness to remove all obstacles impeding the work of investors.
Government of Mauritania and Al-Rajhi sign MOU to transform the food security roadmap in the muslim world and collaborate on $1bn investments
- NAQUA
- 02 February 2013
This agreement comes in line with King Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz’s initiative to encourage agricultural investments abroad and the council’s ongoing efforts to develop and expand the field of agriculture.
Hungry in the food bowl
- The Australian
- 01 February 2013
In rural Australia, the hyperbole about agriculture as a boom industry for global investors is not translating into practical benefits at the farm gate
Land grabs and human rights violations exposed in Liberia ahead of global development summit
- FOE
- 01 February 2013
Palm oil companies are grabbing more than 1.5 million acres of land in Liberia and are violating the human rights of local communities, warn Liberian NGOs.
DEG: EUR 25m for food production in Paraguay
- DEG
- 31 January 2013
DEG's investment will be used to acquire 5,000 hectares of agricultural land, expanding irrigation systems, cultivating rice for the first time and producing timber sustainably.
The financial risks of insecure land tenure: an investment view
- RRI
- 31 January 2013
The potential for bottom-line financial damage from insecure land tenure risk range from massively increased operating costs – as much as 29 times over a normal baseline scenario, according to our modeling – to outright abandonment of an up-and-running operation.
No land grabbing by Indian firms in Africa: Centre
- The Hindu
- 31 January 2013
Faced with reports of land grabbing by Indian companies in some African countries, especially Ethiopia, the government says the Indian companies have taken land on lease as per rules of the country concerned.
Investors running wild on land: the threats posed by international investment agreements
- Traidcraft
- 30 January 2013
A recent briefing note by Traidcraft discusses the threats posed by current regulation of foreign investment in land highlighting that food security and other human rights concerns often come at the cost of excessive protection of foreign investors’ rights.
Accord stratégique pour Louis Dreyfus à Abidjan
- Africa Intelligence
- 29 January 2013
La patronne du groupe Louis Dreyfus doit profiter de son séjour en Côte d'Ivoire pour signer un accord avec le ministre de l'agriculture autorisant la mise à disposition, par l'Etat ivoirien, de 100 000 hectares de terres au nord du pays.
Study: Israel ranks among world's most harmful land-grabbers
- Haaretz
- 29 January 2013
Wealthy countries, and private companies from those countries, have been increasingly buying up land in poor areas for their own economic purposes, a new study says. And Israel turns out to be one of the leading land grabbers.