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Report finds big ag's global land grab expanding to new frontiers
- Common Dreams
- 14 June 2016
While 'food security-driven land grabbing' has subsided in recent years, 'plain old profit-driven agribusiness expansion is now the dominant agenda'.
The global farmland grab in 2016: how big, how bad?
- GRAIN
- 14 June 2016
Eight years after releasing its first report on land grabbing, GRAIN publishes a new dataset documenting nearly 500 cases of land grabbing around the world.
Agriculture : La Chine à l'assaut des terres françaises
- ARTE
- 13 June 2016
Les chinois se lancent dans l'acquisition de cultures céréalières en France. Rencontre avec un agriculteur qui se mobilise pour alerter les autorités des menaces de ces investissements.
Maroc : Evaluation de l’opération de partenariat public privé autour des terres agricoles de l’Etat
- Ministère de l'Agriculture
- 13 June 2016
111.000 ha de terres agricoles relevant du domaine privé de l’Etat ont fait l'objet de contrats de location de longue durée (17 à 40 ans) au profit des promoteurs
IFC Supports Agribusiness in Ukraine with A New Investment in Astarta
- IFC
- 13 June 2016
IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, will provide a debt financing package to Astarta, a leading agricultural producer, as part of broader efforts to support Ukraine's farming sector and spur economic development in the country.
Ethiopian China-backed sugar-export push hits cash, design snags
- Bloomberg
- 13 June 2016
Ethiopia’s development of Chinese-backed sugar plants in the country’s south, part of a plan to become one of the world’s top 10 exporters, is struggling because of a lack of funding and technical expertise, a research group said.
Morocco: Leased farmland attracts $1.4 bn investment in 2015
- Africa Report
- 13 June 2016
Private investments in Moroccan state-owned land leased to farmers and investors reached $1.4 billion by the end of 2015, with 111,000 hectares allocated in the last two years
Un risque majeur: l’accaparement des terres à l’échelle planétaire. Entretien avec Joseph Comby et Michel Merlet
- Agter
- 13 June 2016
« L’accaparement des terres est un risque majeur auquel on ne peut répondre simplement par la revendication des droits de l’homme. »
North Dakotans reconsider a corporate farming ban, and their values
- NY Times
- 12 June 2016
Starting in 1932, North Dakota law barred nonfamily corporations from owning farmland or operating farms. But that changed in March of last year when the state Legislature passed a bill that would relax the corporate farming ban and Gov. Jack Dalrymple signed it into law.
Colombia: ¿El Vichada para el rey de la soya?. ¿Qué se negocia con la paz del modelo?
- Pueblos en Camino
- 12 June 2016
Está cobrando fuerza el plan Grobocopetel de entregar 3 millones de hectáreas del Vichada para inmensos monocultivos transgénicos de maíz, soya y arroz.
Cameroun : Bolloré accuse France 2 d'avoir fabriqué de faux témoignages
- Arret sur Images
- 09 June 2016
Vincent Bolloré a accusé l'émission Complément d'enquête, de France 2, d'avoir fabriqué de faux témoignages d'employés d'une plantation de palmiers dont il est actionnaire, au Cameroun.
Glencore sells agri stake to Canadian fund for $625 million
- Bloomberg
- 09 June 2016
Glencore Plc agreed to sell just-under a 10 percent stake in its agriculture unit to Canada’s British Columbia Investment Management Corp. for $624.9 million in cash as it continues to cut debt.