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Uganda: How land grabs are causing food insecurity
- Witness Radio
- 13 January 2023
The case of a community land rights defender in Mubende district forced to buy food for a family of 13 people for the last five years.
Guyana offers 200 acres of land for exclusive production of millet
- Statesman
- 12 January 2023
The Guyanese president asked India to send a team of experts to set up millets farm in Guyana and promised all help in production and promotion of millets in the Caribbean and Latin American countries
Legislation by Sen. Tammy Baldwin requires more transparency around foreign owners of US farmland
- WPR
- 11 January 2023
Wisconsin Farmers Union says that it's very difficult to find out who owns the investment firms that have been acquiring farmland in the state.
Uganda takes to the courts to stop land grabs and protect forests
- Reuters
- 10 January 2023
A Ugandan villager is in a three-way legal battle for ownership of land with a sugar company that wants to expand its plantations and the National Forestry Authority, which says it is part of a forest reserve.
10 years after: Pain, sorrow as host communities poise for showdown with Olam Farm
- Daily Trust
- 10 January 2023
Communities in Rukubi, Doma Local Government Area of Nasarawa State, Nigeria where Olam Rice Farm is located, have said they are in pain and sorrow due to the activities of the multi-national farming company.
Philippine seeks more investments in agribusiness from China
- PhilStar
- 08 January 2023
The Trade Secretary of the Philippines invites Chinese investors to consider the Philippines as "an investment destination for plantations and processing facilities"
Agric Minister appeals to Thai investors to invest in Ghana’s rice sector
- Business Ghana
- 03 January 2023
Minister said Ghana has 40,000 hectares of land readily available to support large scale rice production and encouraged delegates from the Thai company Jospong Group to take advantage of it.
Germany: Investors buy up farmland- Intervene with the law
- Indo & NY
- 01 January 2023
The Agriculture Minister of the German state of Brandenburg wants to enact a new law to prevent investors from outside the industry from buying up a large part of the agricultural land.
Why are Saudi farmers pumping Arizona groundwater?
- HighCountryNews
- 01 January 2023
Arizona’s attorney general has called for an investigation into a 2015 deal between the Saudi agribusiness company Fondomonte and the Arizona State Land Department for desert farmland west of Phoenix at one-sixth its market value.
Angola has agricultural potential in the UAE
- Africa Press
- 30 December 2022
Angola's Minister of Agriculture presented projects for large-scale agriculture to the UAE's Al Dahra Group and Elite Agro, while in the UAE on a six day visit.
The labor of land
- Africa is a Country
- 30 December 2022
In order to better resist contemporary, neocolonial accumulation, we need to historicize land grabs in Africa.
UAE invests in Kurdistan's agriculture and livestock sectors
- Iraq Business News
- 30 December 2022
"We came to the conclusion that Kurdistan has fertile land suitable for investment in agriculture and planting," says the head of a delegation from the Emirati Al Abrar Company.