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Good grab, bad grab
- The Water Channel
- 23 April 2013
With the large and sometimes overexposed attention for land grabbing in Africa, good examples tend to be forgotten
Encouraging pension funds to divest from land grabbing activities
- Blue & Green Tomorrow
- 22 April 2013
Friends of the Earth is running an ethical pension campaign to encourage investors to ask their providers if they invest in land grabbing activities. Emma Websdale spoke with campaigner Kirtana Chandrasekaran to discuss why it is such an important issue.
UK company defends wheat project claims
- The Land
- 22 April 2013
Capital Alternatives, which offers investments ranging from holdings in African agriculture to pop memorabilia, claims it can generate returns of more than 20% over five years on West Australian wheat farms.
Swedish buffer fund AP2 under scrutiny from NGO over Brazilian farmland investments
- Responsible Investor
- 22 April 2013
Sweden’s SEK227.3bn (€26.7bn) state buffer fund Andra AP-fonden (AP2) has been accused of a lack of transparency and snapping up cheap agricultural land in Brazil by campaign group Swedwatch. AP2 denies the allegations.
Ghana: Stop foreigners from taking over our lands - Varsity registrar pleads
- Ghana Web
- 22 April 2013
The Registrar of the Knutsford University College has filed a suit at the Supreme Court seeking to compel the government to take action to prevent foreigners from taking over the lands of Ghana.
Find out more about landgrabbing on our doorsteps
- ARC2020
- 22 April 2013
ARC2020 is organising a 10-day EU-wide Speakers’ Tour on Landgrabbing in Romania from 21-30 April
Karuturi guilty of tax evasion
- TJN et al
- 22 April 2013
The Kenyan government has found Karuturi Global Ltd, the world's biggest producer of cut roses, guilty of tax evasion. This is the first time an African government has brought a large multinational company to court for transfer mispricing through a fully public process.
Karuturi: A litany of trouble
- TJN et al
- 22 April 2013
Background note to accompany a joint press release on the Kenyan government finding Karuturi Global Ltd guilty of tax evasion
Eastern Europe beckons farmland investors
- Farmers Weekly
- 21 April 2013
Farmland prices are firming across much of Central and Eastern Europe, as interest from institutional investors -- mainly pension funds -- begins to translate into transactions on the ground.
Ethiopian PM rejects land-grab allegations
- Sudan Tribune
- 21 April 2013
Ethiopian prime minister Hailemariam Dessalegn has denied that the government is forcing tens of thousands of people off their land in order to lease it to foreign investors.
Land ownership debate hots up
- The Times of Zambia
- 19 April 2013
Delegates demand that land should not be recklessly sold to foreigners during proceedings at Zambia's National Constitution Convention in Lusaka.
OSA’s appeal letter to the Secretary General of the UN on land-grabbing in Oromia
- Gadaa.com
- 19 April 2013
The following is a statement from the Oromo Studies Association (OSA).