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PNG PM promises to stop land grabs
- Radio Australia
- 15 October 2012
"We have made some fundamental mistakes over the past few years," PNG's Prime Minister, Peter O'Neill, told ABC Radio Australia.
World Food Day: Agribusiness investments are destroying small-scale family farmers and peasants
- Via Campesina
- 15 October 2012
Via Campesina highlights the risks that peasant agriculture will face if the issue of agricultural investment were to open the door to new land- water- and natural resources’ grabbing.
Land activist protests outside agriculture investment forum
- Myanmar Times
- 15 October 2012
A prominent activist staged a demonstration outside the 2nd Commercial Farm Asia conference at Yangon’s Parkroyal Hotel, calling on participants to respect the tenure rights of the country’s farmers.
Orbán says new law to prevent foreigners from buying farmland, reverse earlier purchases
- MTI
- 15 October 2012
Foreigners will be prevented from purchasing arable land in Hungary under the new land law, Prime Minister Viktor Orban said on Saturday.
Reclaiming the last forests of Sarawak
- PAN AP
- 15 October 2012
For the government of Sarawak, every piece of land should be utilised in the name of "development". Thus, reserved forests and lands should be logged and cleared and eventually, planted with oil palm. As a result, Malaysia's deforestation rate is increasing faster than anywhere else in the world.
PNG land scandal
- ABC
- 14 October 2012
Logging companies in PNG are using special agricultural leases to clear vast tracts of rainforest timber, on the promise of roads and economic development for remote villages. Jemima Garrett investigates.
São Tomé & Príncipe: Deforestation threatens biodiversity
- Global Voices
- 13 October 2012
The island's biodiversity threatened by plans to expand a palm oil plantation from 610 ha to 5,000 ha, through a 2009 deal signed with the Belgian company Socfinco.
Ukraine, Japan collaborate on farmland investments, corn growing, exports
- eFeedLink
- 12 October 2012
Japan wants to grow corn on Ukraine's black earth and import it while Ukraine suggests that Japan, as a "hi-tech country", invest in Ukrainian farmland.
Land-grabbing linked with hunger
- IRIN
- 12 October 2012
Researchers find that bulk of deals to lease out land are struck in 32 of the countries ranked “alarming” or “serious” on the Global Hunger Index score.
Laguna Lake fishers at the mercy of 'development'
- PAN AP
- 12 October 2012
Today, Laguna Lake is considered by many fisherfolks as a dying lake. Its ecosystem has been destroyed by the government's forced prevention of the entry of seawater, pollution from factories and cities surrounding the lake, and continuing reclamation and development projects under the government's Public-Private Partnership (PPP) programme.
The reality about the land grab issue and the World Bank Group
- World Bank
- 11 October 2012
Of the $4.2 billion that the International Finance Corporation, the private sector arm of the World Bank Group, invested in agribusiness and forestry in the same period, just three investments – or 2 percent – had any component related to land acquisition.
World land grab 'well-advanced as supply runs short'
- The Australian
- 11 October 2012
Derek Byerlee, co-author of a recent World Bank report The Rising Global Interest in Farmland, says world is running out of productive land and foreign investor and corporate land sales are on the rise across the globe.