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La déforestation illégale peut nuire à la majorité des produits de consommation
- IPS
- 17 September 2014
La plus grande menace pour les forêts vient aujourd'hui de l'agriculture commerciale
FGCCC calls for expanded role of sovereign funds in agro investments
- Arab News
- 17 September 2014
Secretary General of the Federation of GCC Chambers Abdulrahim Hasan Naqi has stressed the need to expand the role of sovereign funds to have investments in agriculture.
Nigeria: Group announces $2.2m rice farming investment
- This Day
- 17 September 2014
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.
Rapport : "La faim un business comme un autre"
- CCFD-TerreSolidaire
- 16 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
Not so mega? The risky business of large-scale public-private partnerships in African agriculture
- Oxfam
- 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.
Chinese investment fund to tip billions into Australian farm projects
- ABC
- 16 September 2014
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.
La lutte des communautés pour défendre leur territoire
- Bulletin Nyéléni
- 16 September 2014
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.
Ethiopian government campaign of murder in Gambela
- ASO
- 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.
Interview with Martin Richenhagen, Chairman, President and CEO of AGCO Corporation
- African Agribusiness
- 15 September 2014
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.
Landgrabbing continues unabated worldwide
- Nyéléni Newsletter
- 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.
Women agricultural workers crave fair working conditions
- FIAN
- 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 REIT Advance Terrafund sells 2,336 ha of farmland in Jan-Aug
- SeeNews
- 15 September 2014
Bulgarian real estate investment trust Advance Terrafund said on Monday it sold 2,336 hectares of farmland.
Chinese fund to splash $3bn on Australian agriculture
- Weekly Times
- 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.
85 squatter farmers face arrest
- Bangkok Post
- 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.
Sénégal : Accaparement du foncier, et des espaces cultivables ménace contre l'autosuffisance alimentaire
- SudOnline
- 13 September 2014
Un Forum foncier mondial aura lieu du 11 au 17 mai 2015 à Dakar.