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Bunge to invest in palm plantation company
- PR Newswire
- 02 November 2011
Under the terms of the agreement, Bunge will acquire 35% of PT Bumiraya Investindo, a subsidiary of TPS Food, which has 25,000 ha in palm oil concessions in Indonesia.
Big money warms to farmland
- DTN
- 01 November 2011
Pension funds and other corporate owners have spent only a tiny fraction of the billions of dollars they could invest in farmland, but they are definitely kicking the tires on potential purchases.
Workers protest broken promises by foreign palm oil company
- Sky FM
- 01 November 2011
Radio programme investigates housing conditions for workers on Sime Darby's plantations project in Liberia.
The Southern Sudan pie
- Norwegian Aid
- 31 October 2011
Foreign interests into the South Sudan pie have managed to secure some 5.74 million hectares of land for agribusiness concerns namely agriculture, forestry, biofuels, eco-tourism and carbon trading.
Karuturi denies plan to share land with Indian farmers
- Addis Fortune
- 31 October 2011
Karuturi Agro Products Plc has refuted reports that the company subleased farm land to Indian farmers, claiming instead that the Indian farmers were hired solely for consultancy services.
Regulating the rush for land
- IPS
- 31 October 2011
The adoption by the UN Committee on World Food Security of international guidelines to regulate land grabs has been pushed to next year
Somawathiya National Park Falls Victim to Unscrupulous Developmental Projects
- Dhamsara
- 31 October 2011
It concerns 5000 acres of the Somawathiya National Park in Sri Lanka being cleared for a large-scale banana plantation by an international agribusiness company, Dole.
Sénégal - Affrontement meurtrier autour de terres vendues à des étrangers
- Slate Afrique
- 28 October 2011
Fanaye Diéry, commune rurale située dans la vallée du fleuve Sénégal, a été le théâtre d’affrontements meurtriers le 26 octobre.
International Peasant Conference : Stop the land grab
- CNOP/Via Campesina
- 28 October 2011
The National Coordination of Farming Organizations in Mali and the Via Campesina invite the press to cover the first international farmers’ conference whose objective is to strengthen the fight against global land grabs.
Africa Rising: Economic progress vs. cultural preservation in Ethiopia
- CSM
- 27 October 2011
Ethiopia's state project to make it into one of the world's top sugar producers requires the resettling of semi-nomadic herders in permanent villages, where they can work on sugar plantations.
China's farming history misapplied in Africa
- Al Jazeera
- 27 October 2011
Land grabs essentially allow other regions of the world to export their food insecurity to Africa, or for Western investors to profit from a decade-long trend of steadily increasing global food prices.
Death toll in Senegal clash over biofuels land rises to two
- AFP
- 26 October 2011
A disputed biofuels project in northern Senegal which triggered violent clashes between villagers claimed its second victim Thursday after a man died from his injuries.