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Trying to follow the money: Tracing investments to actual places in SE Asia
- CIFOR
- 10 June 2015
Following the many paths of where investment dollars go to fund agricultural commodities in SE Asia can be a challenging but not impossible prospect.
UAE corporation to invest $10 billion in agricultural land in Sudan
- Sudan Tribune
- 09 June 2015
Government agency announces that Al-Dahra Holding has expressed a desire to acquire 2.4 million acres of land in one of the largest valleys extending from Sahl al-Batana in the east to the River Nile state in northern Sudan.
Mozambique: People's appeal for an immediate invalidation of the 'Public Hearing of ProSavana's Master Plan"
- 08 June 2015
Appeal reflects and expresses our profound indignation and discontent regarding the public hearing process, especially regarding the way these meetings were planned, convened and held.
Global land grabbing: some new resources
- Zimbabweland
- 08 June 2015
The ‘land grab’ debate continues to evolve and today there is much more empirical data, as witnessed by the veritable explosion of publications.
Colombia: Investigación de la Contraloría respalda denuncias de Wilson Arias sobre acaparamiento de baldíos
- Sitio Web de Wilson Arias
- 06 June 2015
Implica más de 150.000 hectáreas de tierras, que hoy están en manos de empresarios y agentes económicos inescrupulosos, cuando deberían estar en manos del campesinado.
L’accaparement des terres, l’expropriation et l’injustice foncière : Une marche avortée hier par les autorités compétentes
- Maliweb
- 06 June 2015
Une marche pacifique à Bamako contre les accaparements des terres a été avortée par les autorités compétentes.
La Nasan accélère la course à l'accaparement des terres en Afrique
- RFI
- 05 June 2015
La Nasan accélère la course à l'accaparement des terres en Afrique L'accaparement des terres en Afrique est encouragé par un mythe, selon lequel 80% des terres arables du continent seraient vacantes, alors qu'en fait elles sont périodiquement cultivées.
Coordinated protests hit Socfin plantations in four countries
- Mongabay
- 05 June 2015
Since April, communities and activists in Cameroon, Cambodia, Liberia and the Ivory Coast have also staged direct protest actions against subsidiaries of Socfin, one of the world's largest independent plantation owners with 150,000 hectares of rubber and oil palm in several African and Southeast Asian countries.
De Lugo a Cartes: el Paraguay sin tierra
- Rebelión
- 05 June 2015
Actualmente el 92% de la tierra cultivable en Paraguay se usa para producir alimentos destinados sólo a la exportación. De estos, el 20% están controladas por extranjeros, sobre todo brasileños (4,8 millones).
UK development finance arm accused of bankrolling 'agro-colonialism' in Congo
- Guardian
- 05 June 2015
Report claims workers of palm oil company part-owned by DFI earn a pittance, live in harsh conditions and have had their land taken illegally, though DFI says it is trying to improve pay and conditions for workers.
An agricultural revolution by Amtaar Investment
- World Folio
- 05 June 2015
As a joint venture between the UAE based Jenaan Investment and the Republic of the Sudan, Amtaar is today Sudan's largest scale agricultural investment.
Chamada dos povos para invalidação imediata da "Auscultação Pública do Plano Director do ProSavana”
- ADECRU
- 05 June 2015
O processo de auscultação pública foi manchado por muitas e graves irregularidades que confirmam a prevalência de vícios insanáveis de concepção e de procedimentos de que padece o programa ProSavana.
Reports surface of ‘massacre’ of Hamar tribespeople in Ethiopia
- Survival International
- 05 June 2015
Hamar pastoralists are being evicted to roadside villages without their consent, and their ancestral grazing lands are being sold off to investors for commercial plantations.
ADFD extends AED183.6 million loan to Montenegro to support agriculture
- Zawya
- 05 June 2015
Phase two of the agreement involves the procurement of services relevant to machinery, factories, warehouses, and agricultural land.
French firm urged to reimburse farmers in alleged land grabs
- AP
- 04 June 2015
Activists called Thursday for French conglomerate Bollore to return land, or compensate farmers, over disputed concessions for plantations in Cambodia and three African countries.