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Ironic Survival
- Engage Media
- 22 Mar 2013
Video on the struggles of the Malind of Papua to defend their lands from the Merauke Integrated Food and Energy Estate.
Swedish land grab in Tanzania causes protests
- FarmLandS
- 22 Mar 2013
Mats Widgren provides an update on a Swedish company's land grab for sugar cane production in Tanzania.
Land grab v food security: Can global regulation cope?
- IISD
- 22 Mar 2013
Foreign investors in the agricultural sector are under regulated in the current framework of international investment law, voluntary guidelines and fragmented national investment legislation, and over protected in regional and bilateral investment treaties and domestic regulation.
Land grabbing – what’s the debate?
- ILC
- 22 Mar 2013
With the largely self-evident agreement that land grabbing is wrong and all efforts should be made to prevent it, debate and effort can focus more on (i) how to prevent land grabbing, and (ii) how to enable forms of land-based investments that actually bring real benefit.
Cargill expanding palm-oil plantations in Indonesia
- WSJ
- 22 Mar 2013
“We are aggressively looking for new areas in Sulawesi, Central Kalimantan and South Sumatra that are environmentally safe to expand our oil-palm footprint,” says president-director of the company’s oil-palm plantations in Sumatra.
Critical reflection on ‘land grabbing’ in fragile and conflict-affected contexts
- FriEnt
- 21 Mar 2013
This roundtable on conflict sensitive water and land management assembled representatives of Swiss civil society and state agencies to debate the implications of land acquisition on their work as well as their responses.
Rice producer in talks with First Pacific
- Business World
- 21 Mar 2013
SL Agritech Corp plans to establish a 2,000-3,000 hectare commercial rice plantation in Iloilo this year, a top company official said yesterday, in what could involve a joint venture with Hong Kong-based conglomerate First Pacific Co. Ltd.
Governing global land deals: The role of the state in the rush for land
- Development and Change
- 21 Mar 2013
Special issue of the journal Development and Change
Are BRICS 'sub-Imperialists'?
- Pambazuka
- 21 Mar 2013
Reading between the lines, the Durban BRICS resolutions will support favoured corporations' extraction and land-grab strategies and confirm the financing of both African land-grabbing and the extension of neo-colonial infrastructure through a new 'BRICS Bank'
L'Islande pourrait interdire les achats étrangers de propriétés
- China.org
- 21 Mar 2013
Le projet de loi, qui est discuté à l'assemblée législative de Reykjavik, vise à empêcher les personnes qui ne sont pas citoyens de l'Islande d'acheter des propriétés qui incluent des droits d'eau ou de pêche.
Research reveals catastrophic loss of Cambodia's tropical flooded grasslands
- UEA
- 20 Mar 2013
High-speed conversion and land-grabbing has intensified pressure on already threatened species and on the marginalised rural communities that depend on the grassland ecosystem.
Action Aid engages stakeholders on land-grabbing campaign
- Awoko
- 20 Mar 2013
Action Aid International Sierra Leone (AAISL) and its partners have successfully ended a four day strategic conference and campaign planning meeting on ‘Land-Grabbing’ in Freetown.