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Colombia seeking to regulate foreign investment in agriculture

Colombia Reports
21 November 2012

A bill presented before Colombia's congress on Tuesday seeks to increase regulation of foreign investment in Colombia's land and agriculture.

Take action to stop palm oil plantations from destroying Africa's ancient rainforests and local livelihoods in Cameroon

Oakland Institute
21 November 2012

Send a message to Herakles Farms and All for Africa demanding they stop destroying tropical rainforest and local livelihoods and ask the Government of Cameroon to listen to the voices of the Cameroonian people.

A brief introduction to Voluntary Guidelines on land tenure, fisheries and forests

PAN AP
21 November 2012

After almost three years of negotiations that involved governments, civil society organisations (CSOs) and other groups, the Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests in the Context of National Food Security was officially endorsed on 11 May 2012 by the Committee on World Food Security (CFS) of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).

Silas Siakor: landgrabbing in Liberia

EJOLT
20 November 2012

The government allocated some 350.000 hectares to Sime Darby, a Malaysian multinational. But people only came to know about this deal when the company showed up to take their land.

Analysis: Foreign investors in Australian farms; rash or prescient?

Reuters
19 November 2012

For all the willing buyers seeking tracts of Australian farm land, local investors are not among them. They wonder what all the fuss is about.

Profits lure investors to farmland In Arkansas

Arkansas Business
19 November 2012

Continued economic uncertainties are prompting a back-to-the-land movement among investors. And a favored choice of land is farmland.

Oil palm firm, group clash over land grab

All Voices
18 November 2012

Oil palm giant, Wilmar Nigeria Limited, and the Rainforest Resource and Development Centre (RRDC), an environmental rights group, are currently at logger heads over a massive land grab in a rural community in Cross River State, Southern Nigeria.

African pension funds: The missing link to African development?

Huffington Post
17 November 2012

Africa is regarded as the New Eldorado, and is attracting many foreign based private or public investment companies, sovereign wealth funds and even pension funds gradually. Sadly, while foreigners continue to play a major role in growth investments, African pension funds' contributions to this growth are dismal.

Agco targets Africa’s agriculture boom with $100 million plan

Bloomberg
16 November 2012

Agco Corp. (AGCO), the world’s third- largest farm-equipment maker, plans to invest $100 million in Africa over the next three years to capitalize on an agricultural boom and a shift to commercial farming.

US food giant Bunge accused over biofuel 'tainted with Indian blood'

Survival
15 November 2012

US food giant Bunge has been implicated in a sugarcane scandal in Brazil that has kept an entire indigenous community off its land, polluted streams and inflicted illness and death on Guarani Indians.

Dubai’s AWGAL in talks to purchase Texas cattle farms

Arabian Business
14 November 2012

Dubai-based AWGAL Investments is in advanced talks with farmers in Texas to invest in cattle farms to produce Halal-certified US beef for the GCC and MENA region.

The great Africa land grab

The Ecologist
14 November 2012

Oxfam’s Phil Bloomer reports on the shocking scandal of (mostly) secretive land-grabbing, usually from those least able to defend their rights.

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Colombia seeking to regulate foreign investment in agriculture

Take action to stop palm oil plantations from destroying Africa's ancient rainforests and local livelihoods in Cameroon

A brief introduction to Voluntary Guidelines on land tenure, fisheries and forests

Silas Siakor: landgrabbing in Liberia

Analysis: Foreign investors in Australian farms; rash or prescient?

Profits lure investors to farmland In Arkansas

Oil palm firm, group clash over land grab

African pension funds: The missing link to African development?

Agco targets Africa’s agriculture boom with $100 million plan

US food giant Bunge accused over biofuel 'tainted with Indian blood'

Dubai’s AWGAL in talks to purchase Texas cattle farms

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