Sierra Leone calls for urgent land audit. In the last five years, 30% of the arable land has gone to large-scale investors.
Agribusiness represents a substantial opportunity as well as a priority or even a problem for investors in Asia
- Asia Asset Management
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31 July 2017
Le Sénégal comptait sur des investisseurs étrangers pour augmenter sa production de riz mais certains d'entre eux sont contestés, avec le soupçon d’accaparement des terres, avant même d’avoir démarré leur production.
L'Ethiopie vient d’allouer 3.000 hectares de terres aux investisseurs dans la floriculture afin de diversifier son économie.
- La Tribune Afrique
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29 July 2017
The Ethiopian Horticulture and Agricultural Investment Authority has announced that it has allocated 3,000 hectares of land for investors who want to engage in Ethiopia's flower farming sector.
A new online tool created by the Midwest Center for Investigative Reporting allows individuals to check up on just how much American land is currently owned by foreign entities, and the results might be surprising. Between 2004 and 2014, these databases show foreign investors doubled their American farmland holdings.
As Myanmar parliament discusses amendments to the Farmland Law which threaten to further undermine land rights, Global Witness calls to the government of Myanmar to set out a clear vision for land reform before introducing or enacting new laws.
- Global Witness
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28 July 2017
Environmental Rights Action (ERA) Nigeria calling to support e-action to Governor Godwin Obaseki of Edo State to enforce the revocation order of 13,750 hectares of illegally acquired land in Owan and Okomu Forest Reserves by Okomu Oil Palm Company Plc.
A dairy farm designed for a very large number of cattle is supposed to be built in a land plot occupying 45,000ha in Belarus with investment from Chinese company DRex Food Group.
This practical guide focuses on investigating accountability and accountability politics in the context of the current global rush for land and other natural resources
The World Bank says it had a team of consultants in Sierra Leone in May 2017 to do an assessment of large scale agricultural land acquisitions and that the report is now ready with several recommendations.
Korea's Dusung Food Co., Ltd is looking for a large area of land to cultivate crops within the 5,200 ha hi-tech agriculture zone in Hau Giang Province, Vietnam
The movement also opposes land reform that eases restrictions on foreigners to own land in Brazil at the expense of poor families in irregular settlements.
15.000 membres du Mouvement des paysans sans-terre ont commencé à occuper des propriétés appartenant aux familles du ministre de l'Agriculture et d'un sénateur pour dénoncer le recul de la réforme agraire et la corruption et le blanchiment d'argent avec des terres
In an agreement mediated by the IFC’s watchdog mechanism, a controversial Vietnamese plantations company has reached a deal with 11 ethnic minority villages affected by its Ratanakkiri operations
- Phnom Penh Post
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27 July 2017