Reports about land-grabs in Africa often attack the corporations that stand to profit from such projects. But little is said of the international development banks that fund the projects.
- The Conversation
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07 January 2016
The law prohibits the concentration of rural land for speculative, commercial or monopolistic ends and specifies that foreign state companies may only invest in farming in conjunction with a state enterprises or Ecuadorean business.
The Overseas Investment Office has granted consent for Weihai Station to buy 595 hectares of land at 152 Baker Rd, Waikaretu - about 100km southwest of Auckland, New Zealand.
The issue of indiscriminate allocation of community land to companies in the Niger Delta region has been brought to the front burner by stakeholders on environmental and human rights issues in the area.
South Korean-owned Welt Bio Co. Ltd. is investing $40 million in a black pepper plantation in Mondulkiri, Cambodia, which is being described as the largest in the world.
- Khmer Times
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06 January 2016
Le projet Graine ne sera pas géré par le Ministère de l’agriculture mais par…une société privée, la SOTRADER, filiale de la très controversée OLAM.
- Gabon Review
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06 January 2016
The sale of two New Zealand dairy farms to a Canadian government pension fund has been approved by the Overseas Investment Office.
Who walks away from fertile agricultural land available to lease for as little as $1 per year per hectare? Recent reports indicate international investors are doing just that across sub-Saharan Africa.
- New Security Beat
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05 January 2016
Le gouvernement cède des licences d’exploitation des terres des populations indigènes à des entreprises privées pour les plantations de palmiers à huile.
- AlterAsia
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04 January 2016
The Ethiopian Agricultural Investment Land Administration Agency has terminated its lease contract with the controversial, Indian based agribusiness giant - Karuturi Global Ltd.
Le pays poursuit le développement des fermes agricoles de l'Etat implantées dans les pays voisins (Ethiopie, Soudan) en 2015-2019
Based on new field research the report expands on working conditions and land conflict in Malawi’s sugar industry where Illovo Sugar (Malawi) Limited, a subsidiary of Associated British Foods is the country’s only producer
«La loi de 2004 dit, clairement, que le Sénégal doit moderniser son agriculture, sécuriser ses acteurs, en mettant en place des droits transmissibles et qu’on peut donner en garantie à des institutions, pour avoir des financements»
Tête de file de la mobilisation contre l’accaparement des terres, la Coordination nationale des organisations paysannes du Mali fait le bilan de l’année 2015 sur les directives sur des régimes fonciers de la FAO
- Mali Actu
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29 December 2015
Leader in the palm oil production in Cameroon, Socapalm operates more than 78,500 hectares of palm grove in the Littoral and Southern regions.
- Business in Cameroon
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27 December 2015