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Fiji: $10m investment for rice industry
- Fiji Times
- 23 February 2015
Korean rice company, Grace Road Company Ltd, in Navua is looking at investing $10 million in the revitalisation of the rice industry in the country and in expanding its farm.
Somalis need to learn lessons from the legacy of land grabbing in Africa
- Mareeg
- 23 February 2015
Somalia’s farmland similar to its neighbouring countries is in danger of falling into the hands of transnational companies often in partnership with governments sometimes supported by the local elites.
Nestlé: Shedding a light and engaging on land rights
- Reuters
- 23 February 2015
The newly created International Land and Forest Tenure Facility, funded by Sweden, will start pilot initiatives to reform land tenure in developing countries.
Cambodian land conflicts surge
- The Diplomat
- 21 February 2015
In a statement released Thursday, The Cambodian League for the Promotion and Defense of Human Rights (Licadho) said it had registered 10,625 families newly affected by land conflicts in 2014, more than three times the number of families documented in 2013.
Nourrir l'humanité
- RFI
- 20 February 2015
Malgré l'accaparement des terres ou la production d'agrocarburants au détriment des aliments, les solutions existent pour que tous mangent à leur faim
Climat : l’agriculture doit être au coeur des négociations
- Secours Catholique
- 20 February 2015
Les fausses solutions contre le changement climatique provoquent une importante pression foncière et un accaparement des terres, explique Jean Vettraino
Expropriação de terras é neocolonialismo em Moçambique, acusam camponeses
- DW
- 20 February 2015
"O colonialismo português está de volta" é o título de um novo relatório sobre os negócios fundiários em Moçambique, centrado no Corredor de Nacala, no norte do país.
Acaparamiento de tierras en Uruguay
- Kaos en la Red
- 20 February 2015
27 conglomerados empresariales poseen 1.641.000 hectáreas. Trasnacionales con al menos 10% de la tierra productiva en Uruguay.
Tycoon-controlled oil palm groups in Indonesia
- TuK Indonesia
- 20 February 2015
25 large tycoon business groups control 3.1 million hectares of the total planted oil palm plantation in Indonesia. And another 2 million hectares of undeveloped land banks under control.
SENHUILE , le calvaire , l'injustice et la ségrégation vecu par les employés Sénégalais
- Youtube
- 19 February 2015
Le nouveau Directeur de Senhuile sa, Massimo Castellucci pense qu'un travailleur Sénégalais ne mérite pas un salaire de plus de 150 000 fcfa
Battle to feed the world pits small farmers against big agriculture
- Guardian
- 19 February 2015
Large-scale agricultural production will benefit private-sector firms rather than poor people, Grain says, noting that financial companies and sovereign wealth funds are responsible for about a third of the deals.
Despite hunger, Mozambique leases huge land holdings to foreigners
- Reuters
- 19 February 2015
Mozambique, a country wracked by hunger, has signed away land concessions three times larger than Greater London to outside investors in the past decade, displacing thousands of farmers in the process.
Shanghai Pengxin aims to double its NZ farm assets
- BusinessDesk
- 19 February 2015
The New Zealand farm group arm of the Shanghai Pengxin Group owned by Chinese billionaire Jiang Zhoabai says it plans to double its $500 million of local assets within the next five years.
UN, banks and oil palm giants feast on the stolen land of Uganda's dispossessed
- The Ecologist
- 19 February 2015
UN Agency IFAD is robbing poor farmers and farming communities of their land and livelihoods, leaving them destitute, and handing over their wealth for plunder by foreign corporations and profiteering financiers.
Land disputes triple in Cambodia in 2014: rights group
- World Bulletin
- 19 February 2015
Local NGO Licadho says registered more than 10,625 families newly affected by land conflicts.