WEMS Agro Companies Limited plans to invest about $2.2 million into rice cultivation in a 25,000 ha rice project in Ondo state with Chinese partners.
- This Day
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17 September 2014
Comment la nouvelle alliance du G8 menace la sécurité alimentaire en Afrique. Un rapport publié par le CCFD-Terre Solidaire, Oxfam France et Action contre la Faim
- CCFD-TerreSolidaire
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16 September 2014
Oxfam policy adviser Robin Willoughby shrugs off the big ag groupthink and argues that the current trend of mega projects in African agriculture is a risky and unproven way to help poor farmers.
While Chinese investors, like Ms Qiao, are in Australia looking at farms, an Australian real estate company has headed to China to find buyers for Australian farming properties.
L’accaparement des terres arables mondiales s’étend de jour en jour. Il ne s’agit pas seulement de l’exploitation pour des entreprises agricoles mais aussi l’extractivisme.
- Bulletin Nyéléni
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16 September 2014
The cause of this high level insecurity and loss of innocent peoples' lives is a government policy to take away the indigenous communities land and give it to so called investors both foreigners and Ethiopian highlanders.
AGCO CEO says his company is planning to have a second “future farm” in Nigeria because it’s also a very big market. AGCO's first "future farm' is in Zambia.
- African Agribusiness
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15 September 2014
This edition of the Nyéléni Newsletter provides an overview of the process landgrabbing and of the possibilities of resisting it from our communities.
- Nyéléni Newsletter
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15 September 2014
Publication by FIAN International discusses the discriminatory working conditions women agricultural workers endure, as well as their contribution to the food and nutrition security of their families and communities.
Bulgarian real estate investment trust Advance Terrafund said on Monday it sold 2,336 hectares of farmland.
- SeeNews
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15 September 2014
A new $3 billion fund jointly initiated by the Beijing Agricultural Investment Fund and Yuhu Agriculture Investment Pty Ltd. is planning to invest $3 billion capital in various projects in Australia.
- Weekly Times
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15 September 2014
Authorities plan to arrest about 85 farmers who have occupied a large tract of land, formerly an oil palm plantation, in Plai Phraya district of Krabi today.
- Bangkok Post
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15 September 2014
Un Forum foncier mondial aura lieu du 11 au 17 mai 2015 à Dakar.
- SudOnline
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13 September 2014
"L'acquisition de terres à grande échelle non seulement réduit les terres disponibles pour les populations locales, mais aussi ce qui est disponible aux populations locales doit être encore subdivisé," indique Allan Moshi
Près de la moitié de la déforestation dans les pays tropicaux s’explique par la conversion illégale de terres en exploitations agricoles à vocation commerciale, selon une vaste étude publiée par l’organisation américaine Forest Trends
- Le Monde
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11 September 2014