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Residents told to support Kwale sugar firm
- The Star
- 22 January 2015
Senator urges residents to stop burning sugar cane of Kenyan-Mauritian company accused of taking lands away from locals.
Beware fake land investments in Australia
- Every Investor
- 22 January 2015
NeglectAssist is warning private investors to watch out for exotic Australian land investments promising both security and high returns.
Rwanda: Canadian firm acquires licence, to grow stevia plant on 1,000 hectares
- New Times
- 22 January 2015
The Ministry of Trade and Industry (Minicom) has signed an agreement with SteviaLife, a Canadian firm, that will see the latter promote the production and export of stevia plant.
Investment fund pours cash into cleaner, greener fish farming
- NPR
- 22 January 2015
Aqua-Spark, a new sustainable aquaculture fund, has invested in a tilapia operation in Mozambique called Chicoa Fish Farm that the fund hopes will be a model fish farm for all of sub-Saharan Africa.
US: Fight foreign ownership of Wisconsin farmland (Part 2)
- Agri-View
- 22 January 2015
The foreign-ownership debate is relatively recent and, as noted below, it is not at all clear who is seeking to repeal the existing legal restrictions on the foreign ownership of Wisconsin farmland.
Remise en cause des lois foncières et semencières en Afrique
- AFSA/GRAIN
- 22 January 2015
Le lobby qui cherche à industrialiser la production alimentaire en Afrique modifie aussi la législation semencière et foncière pour qu'elle serve les intérêts de l'industrie agroalimentaire.
Africa's land and seed laws under attack
- AFSA/GRAIN
- 22 January 2015
The lobby to industrialise food production in Africa is changing seed and land laws across the continent to serve agribusiness corporations.
O ataque às leis fundiárias e das sementes da África
- AFSA/GRAIN
- 22 January 2015
O lóbi para industrializar a produção alimentar na África altera as leis fundiárias e das sementes de todo o continente para servir as empresas estrangeiras de agronegócio.
Crise foncière dans le Ndiael : les populations disent "non à Senhuile"
- Ndar Info
- 21 January 2015
Les tensions rurales provoquées par le lancement du projet Senhuile s’accentuent de jour en jour au Sénégal
Dégâts collateraux des engins de Senhuile-Senéthanol : Des squelettes de morts de 37 villages déterrés
- Direct Info
- 21 January 2015
Des éleveurs de 37 villages de la commune de Gnith, au Sénégal, ont marché hier pour crier leur ras-le-bol contre la société Senhuile-Senethanol
Private firms control 1.8 mln hectares of economic land concessions in Cambodia: officials
- Xinhua
- 21 January 2015
Some 228 companies are currently possessing about 1.8 million hectares of economic land concessions in Cambodia.
Leaked report says World Bank violated own rules in Ethiopia
- ICIJ
- 20 January 2015
Internal watchdog finds link between World Bank financing and Ethiopian government's mass resettlement of indigenous group