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Ethiopia promoting agricultural investment
- Capital
- 20 June 2012
Ethiopia is working to reduce bureaucracy related to processes in agricultural investment according to Tefera Derebew, Minister of Agriculture.
Global grab for land and forests kills 1 a week
- Reuters
- 19 June 2012
At least one person is being killed in an environmental dispute around the world each week as the battle for land, natural resources and forests becomes increasingly violent, a report said on Tuesday.
Foreign direct investment in agriculture : Land grab or food security improvement?
- SSRN
- 19 June 2012
Do governments and parliaments in investor home countries have any responsibility in respect of the behaviour of their investors abroad? What should they and international regulators do, if anything?
Ethics complaint: Rastetter used regents board to push African 'land grab'
- Des Moines Register
- 19 June 2012
An ethics complaint being filed today alleges agribusiness investor Bruce Rastetter used his membership on a board that oversees Iowa’s public universities to advance a business venture involving Iowa State University.
Land grabbing in focus
- RLA Foundation
- 18 June 2012
The Right Livelihood Award Foundation co-organised a seminar in the Swedish Parliament on June 14, 2012 where a new report on land grabbing by researchers of the Right Livelihood College Campus in Lund was released.
Ethiopia: Pastoralists forced off their land for sugar plantations
- HRW
- 18 June 2012
The Ethiopian government is forcibly displacing indigenous pastoral communities inEthiopia’s Lower Omo valley without adequate consultation or compensation to make way for state-run sugar plantations, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today.
The Real Trespassers: Landgrabbing in the Name of Palm Oil in Southern Philippines
- PANAP
- 18 June 2012
Report of an International Fact-Finding Mission was held in Tingalan and Bagocboc, Mindanao, Philippies, to investigate complaints of landgrabbing received from a local indigenous peoples group.
International petition to save farmers and indigenous peoples of Southern Philippines from oil palm expansion launched
- PANAP
- 18 June 2012
A report entitled "The Real Trespassers: Landgrabbing in the Name of Palm Oil in Southern Philippines" that chronicles the findings of the International Fact-Finding Mission in Opol has been released by PAN AP.
The new enclosures: Critical perspectives on corporate land deals
- JPS
- 18 June 2012
This issue of Journal of Peasant Studies explores the complex dynamics of corporate land deals in a broad agrarian political economy perspective, with a special focus on the implications for property and labour regimes, labour processes and structures of accumulation.
African land fertile ground for crops and investors
- NPR
- 15 June 2012
Part 2 of a report from the US-based National Public Radio on landgrabbing in Africa, highlighting the case of Mozambique
Foreigners 'skirting rules protecting rice businesses'
- The Nation
- 15 June 2012
Singaporean and other foreign traders are taking advantage of a loophole in Thai laws to purchase land suitable for paddy fields and starting up rice-trading houses in Thailand.
Nigeria-Qatar 'govts in effort to enhance ties'
- Gulf Times
- 14 June 2012
We are interested in the opportunity of farming in Nigeria and we are happy that the government is facilitating that process," says Hassad Food Operations and Asset Management executive director Andrew Goodman.