Report examines Brazil’s programme to transform Mozambique’s Nacala corridor, the Chinese Agricultural Technology Demonstration Centre, and a private Chinese rice investment project in the Xai-Xai irrigation scheme.
- Future Agricultures
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26 Mar 2013
The Latvian government is planning restrictions on selling land to foreign investors. "We are not planning to restrict the purchase of agricultural land, but we do plan regulations to make sure that the land is used productively."
- Baltic Business News
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26 Mar 2013
Sinar Mas Group says it will invest US$1.6 billion in the Liberian palm oil business to expand operations overseas.
An American multinational, AVCO Agri Company Limited Ghana has acquired 500 hectares of land at Dorfor Agorveme in the North Tongu district of the Volta Region to start rice cultivation
As conflict raged across Kachin state, a group of Chinese investors recently bought up large amounts of farmland in the Hukaung Valley and other parts of the state in order to expand rubber and cassava plantations, says Kachin peace activist, Khun Jar.
The land grabs are not an Equatorian issue. It is a national problem that should not be looked at from a regional or tribal perspective.
Rural communities in Grand Cape Mount, north-western Liberia, present new report about their dispute with Malaysian oil palm giant Sime Darby.
- Green Advocates & FPP
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25 Mar 2013
The leading sugar miller in Mauritius, Omnicane, has a 25 per cent share in the company and recently said there were plans of raising the stake to 50 per cent when the factory is commissioned.
- Business Daily
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24 Mar 2013
Investigative report reveals how foreign companies illegally gain control over Malaysian companies with land concessions in Sarawak.
- Sarawak Report
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24 Mar 2013
Leery of product safety in China, Zhu Zhangjin is urging farmers to invest abroad like he has
Under the initiative of the Indian Ocean Commission, Madagascar is the focus of a large project to produce and export agricultural products to ensure the food security of this regional space, raising the spectre of land grabbing.
As land is grabbed and earmarked for development, this often has implications for the water nearby, for local people's land and water rights and environmental sustainability.