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Sokoto, Swiss firm sign MoU on rice production
- This Day
- 06 September 2012
Nigeria's Sokoto State Government and Novel Management Services of Switzerland sign a N35 billion deal for a rice project covering 25,000 ha of land in the River Rima basin.
Women struggle to secure land rights
- Africa Renewal
- 06 September 2012
Activists are fighting to introduce or strengthen laws intended to give women more secure access to land and are combating social norms and practices that stand in their way.
APEC Secretary General: Russia's Far East can prevent food crisis in Asia
- RUVR
- 05 September 2012
Analysts are warning of a looming food crisis, while on the other hand, pointing to plenty of land, uncultivated but fit for farming, in the Russian Far East.
Oakland Institute, Greenpeace expose new US corporation’s land grab in Africa
- OI/Greenpeace
- 04 September 2012
An American owned company with a track record of illegality and links to private equity giant Blackstone Group is threatening to destroy rainforests and dislocate local communities in Cameroon, Africa.
Herakles ends bid to join green palm oil body over Cameroon plan
- Reuters
- 04 September 2012
New York venture-finance firm Herakles Capital has withdrawn its application for membership of the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil after complaints by environmental groups about its $350 million project in Cameroon.
PrimeAg may be ripe for foreign picking
- The Land
- 04 September 2012
It is understood the agricultural division of the $163 billion Canada Pension Plan Investment Board has been sniffing around Australian agricultural land recently and has had discussions in Australia with landholders such as PrimeAg.
Australia: Chinese bid for Cubbie sparks political row
- ABC
- 03 September 2012
The approved sale of sprawling Australian cotton farm Cubbie Station to Chinese interests has sparked a political row as Nationals Senator Barnaby Joyce insists foreign ownership is not in the national interest.
Australia approves China farm purchase, sparks investment concern
- Reuters
- 03 September 2012
Australia approved a Chinese company's bid for giant (100,000 ha) cotton farm, including entitlements to a massive 537,000 mega litres of water, or enough to fill Sydney Harbour.
Foreign purchases of New Zealand land drop significantly
- Wall Street Journal
- 03 September 2012
Foreign purchases of land in New Zealand have dropped off significantly over the last seven months, after Chinese investors became embroiled in a long-running land dispute and declining carbon-credit prices made forestry assets less attractive.
'German minister should address human rights'
- DW
- 31 August 2012
Soy farming in Argentina is often linked to land-grabbing and displacement of small-scale farmers. Aid organizations are demanding action from German Agriculture Minister Ilse Aigner during her trip to South America.
APWLD Forum News on landgrabbing
- APWLD
- 31 August 2012
The Asia Pacific Forum on Women, Law and Development has published a special issue of its bulletin on landgrabbing, its impacts on women and their resistance, across the Asia Pacific region.
Malawi poor shoved out of ancestral land as global demand for food, bio-fuels grows
- The Maravi Post
- 31 August 2012
Investment firms describe it as the next golden opportunity. They say they're taking and using underutilised and uncultivated land. But as MaraPost's *Charles Mkula* reports, simply put, it's land-grabbing and somethings has to be done about it