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AAAID Investments have exceeded its paid capital: executive
- Sudan Vision
- 09 August 2016
AAAID Chairman says scores of investors have expressed the desire for partnerships with the Authority in agriculture.
Australia: Jacqui Lambie to push for Foreign Investment Review Board overhaul
- ABC
- 09 August 2016
Tasmanian senator says she will grill officials when they front Senate Estimates later this year over FIRB's history of approving foreign farm and asset purchases against the national interest.
Dozens shot dead in anti-government protests across Ethiopia says opposition
- Reuters
- 09 August 2016
Unrest flared in Oromiya for several months until early this year over plans to allocate farmland surrounding the regional capital for development.
Un enseignant-chercheur à Y. Chahed : « je ne vous fais pas confiance »
- Espace Manager
- 08 August 2016
"Allez-vous assumer le fait de vendre la terre de vos ancêtres à des investisseurs privés et publics étrangers ?" demande un enseignant-chercheur à Youssef Chahed, nouveau chef de gouvernement désigné de la Tunisie
Ethiopie: Prés de 100 personnes tuées par la police
- SeneNews
- 08 August 2016
Les manifestations, aux motifs différents, avaient pour point commun une dénonciation de l’accaparement de l’appareil d’État par des responsables essentiellement issus de la région du Tigré.
Des investisseurs mauriciens : 10.000 Ha de terre pour une sucrerie de 160.000 T
- IGIHE
- 08 August 2016
Le Rwanda est en train d'octroyer 10.000 hectares à des investisseurs mauriciens pour la production du sucre
Amid epic drought, villagers bitter over Zimbabwean ethanol plant
- Mongabay
- 08 August 2016
Locals allege the Green Fuel ethanol plant has grabbed land and displaced families without compensation, polluted water supplies, and failed to pay its workers — leaving them with few options in a region beset by drought.
Monster sugar mill eats through sugarcane supply
- Phnom Penh Post
- 08 August 2016
Company began operations using the harvest of sugarcane cultivated on 5,000 hectares and needs to significantly expand the cultivation area to produce sufficient sugarcane to keep its line operating year-round.
Colombia: Corte Constitucional admite demanda contra Ley Zidres
- Radio Santa Fe
- 08 August 2016
Para los congresistas demandantes, la Ley que crea las Zonas de Interés de Desarrollo Rural Económico y Social (Zidres), es cosa juzgada y debe ser declarada inexequible.
Entrevista de LU14 Diego Monton Coordinador Nacional MNCI
- LU 14
- 05 August 2016
Sobre el pedido de inconstitucionalidad y nulidad del decreto que modifica la Ley de tierras en manos extranjeras
Argentina: El MNCI Via Campesina presentó Amparo para frenar la extranjerización de tierras
- MNCI - Vía Campesina
- 05 August 2016
El Movimiento Nacional Campesino Indígena (MNCI), integrante de la Vía Campesina, presentó un recurso de amparo para declarar la inconstitucionalidad y nulidad del decreto que modifica la Ley de tierras en manos extranjeras.
Dozens march against sugar company ‘land grabs’
- VoA Cambodia
- 05 August 2016
Villagers from Koh Kong province delivered petitions to the government and European Union on August, 4, 2016 to lodge complaints about alleged land grabbing by two sugar plantation firms.
Mali : Sécurisation foncière : L’UACDDDD présente les synthèses harmonisées des us et coutumes aux autorités
- Agora
- 04 August 2016
La gestion collective des terres correspond aux aspirations du peuple malien qui ne revendique pas le droit à la propriété privée, souligne la Convergence malienne contre les accaparements de terres
Brasil: Movimentos Populares em alerta à sociedade contra a venda de terras para estrangeiros
- MST
- 04 August 2016
Atualmente, a compra de terra por estrangeiros encontra limites. É possível a aquisição de até três módulos rurais, sem qualquer condicionalidade.
Zambeef shares soar more than 50%, on $65m CDC investment
- Agrimoney
- 04 August 2016
The deal will hand the UK government's development agency a 17.5% stake in Zambeef, which is pursuing Zambia's first oil palm plantation on over 20,000 ha.