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US NGO slams city rose grower’s Ethiopia venture
- Bangalore Mirror
- 04 Mar 2013
It alleges that the dealings of Karuturi Global, one of India’s largest flower growers, in the African nation do not smell as sweet as what it grows
Liberian women impacted by expansion of Sime Darby’s oil palm plantations
- WRM
- 04 Mar 2013
The report “Uncertain Futures. The impacts of Sime Darby on communities”, produced by SDI and WRM, gives a deeper insight in how industrial oil palm plantations affect women in a differentiated way.
Agrarian problems emerge as corporations use MIFEE project for capital accumulation.
- awasMIFEE
- 02 Mar 2013
People in Indonesia consider the food crisis as an excuse, deliberately created so that corporations could assert control over the necessary business which is central to most people’s lives.
Argentina: Denuncian presencia “destructiva” de Harvard en el Iberá
- Momarandu
- 02 Mar 2013
Ecologistas acusan a la universidad norteamericana de Harvard de ser una de las principales responsables de la destrucción de miles de hectáreas en el Iberá.
Bolivia: Campesinos denuncian que empresarios extranjeros están tomando tierras de Bolibras
- EJU
- 02 Mar 2013
Exigen a las autoridades pronta solución antes que corra sangre.
IFC backs ETG Group again
- Indian Ocean Newsletter
- 01 Mar 2013
The private investment arm of the World Bank, is going to back the medium-term expansion of ETC Group (ETG), incorporated in Mauritius and specializing trading in food and drink products.
N. Korea to farm land in Russian Far East
- Asahi Shimbun
- 01 Mar 2013
North Korea will dispatch dozens of laborers this spring to grow corn, beans and vegetables on 1,000 hectares of farmland in the Russian Far East, local government sources said
Liberia: Sime Darby's slave camp is another face of corporate evil
- New Democrat
- 01 Mar 2013
A Malaysian company that came to Liberia and acquired huge land space, promised to plant about 20,000 hectares to do Liberia proud by investing in oil palm is today embroiled in controversy and internecine conflict.
Ethiopia: displacement, intimidation and abuse
- Redress Information & Analysis
- 01 Mar 2013
With the coming of big industrial farms in Ethiopia, local people, villagers and pastoralists are being threatened, intimidated, forcibly displaced and herded into camps by the military, their homes destroyed.
China intends to invest in an agricultural land irrigation system in Bulgaria
- Balkans.com
- 01 Mar 2013
Tianjin Agribusiness Company, which is handling large plots in northwestern Bulgaria, plans to build a factory for processing Bulgarian waste constituents of milk production and to export it to China in the form of dried derivatives.
Clash of concerns over foreign ownership of Australian agriculture
- ABC
- 01 Mar 2013
There's been considerable disquiet over the presence of foreign buyers in the farmland market place, but the stats on the extent of foreign ownership and the emerging trends are far from clear.
Parlementaires suisses et Conseil fédéral interpellés
- APIC
- 28 February 2013
Les œuvres d’entraide suisses demandent aux autorités suisses de s’assurer que les fonds publics versés par la Confédération ne financent pas l’accaparement des terres par les multinationales dans les pays du Sud, notamment en Afrique.