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Farm-buyers face new rules
- NZ Herald
- 06 December 2013
Labour bill aims to make it more difficult for foreign investors to purchase rural land
Tanzania: Japan's Nitori to invest Sh900 billion in cotton farming
- Tanzania Daily News
- 06 December 2013
The Japan investor has secured 40,000 hectares of land for commercial cotton farming in Handeni District where it will open a cotton farm and a processing plant.
Ethiopia's stolen land
- Le Monde diplomatique
- 05 December 2013
Government plans to reform Ethiopia’s agriculture failed to consider the country’s peasant culture, subsistence farming and basic needs, letting the corporations take the most fertile land from peasant farmers.
Prosavana –Mudança de estratégia
- JA!
- 05 December 2013
O Prosavana é uma má experiência importada do Brasil, um exemplo perfeito de abordagem do topo para a base, um processo iniciado e conduzido apenas ao mais alto nível
Brazil’s development bank heads for Africa
- This is Africa
- 05 December 2013
BNDES will open its first Africa office as it looks to finance the expansion of Brazilian companies across the continent
Central Africa takes steps to improve agricultural investment
- IISD
- 05 December 2013
Over sixty parliamentarians from Central Africa met in Malabo, the capital of Equatorial Guinea, to discuss how to promote sustainable agricultural investment.
Brazilian indigenous leader murdered
- World Bulletin
- 04 December 2013
A Brazilian indigenous leader who spent decades campaigning for his tribe’s right to live on their ancestral land was murdered on Sunday night
Africa's vanishing forests
- On Earth
- 04 December 2013
That palm oil listed in the ingredients of your favorite candy bar or lipstick? More and more of it comes from forest and farmland razed by multinational corporations a world away.
Enda Tiers Monde appelle à la promotion de ''l'agriculture paysanne''
- APA News
- 04 December 2013
Le réseau international d’Enda Tiers Monde invite les pays du sud à promouvoir ‘’l’agriculture paysanne’’ et à freiner l’accaparement des terres pour accéder à la souveraineté alimentaire.
Brésil : assassinat d’un leader guarani
- Survival International
- 04 December 2013
Le chef indien guarani Ambrósio Vilhalva a été assassiné dimanche dernier, après avoir lutté pendant des décennies pour les droits territoriaux de sa tribu.
Tanzania: Govt pledges to continue supporting Rubada
- Tanzania Daily News
- 03 December 2013
The government pledges to continue supporting Rufiji Basin Development Authority (RUBADA) in its endeavour to encourage large scale plantations in the country
Deutsche Bank fund sells stake in controversial firm
- Deutsche Welle
- 03 December 2013
Germany's largest bank, Deutsche Bank, confirms that one of its funds has sold its shareholding in a Vietnamese company accused of rights abuses in Laos and Cambodia.
La Belgique pas exempte de responsabilités dans l'accaparement de terre en Asie et Afrique
- Belga
- 03 December 2013
BNP Paribas Fortis, Deutsche Bank, ING, KBC, Belfius ou AXA: toutes ces banques ont, de par les fonds qu'elles gèrent, une part de responsabilité dans le phénomène mondial d'accaparement de terre
Institutions are blazing a trail in CIS farming
- Moscow Times
- 02 December 2013
Interest in farming from a new class of institutional investors — including hedge, endowment, pension, private equity and sovereign wealth funds — has surged.
Colombia: Reclamos para una negociación lenta y compleja
- Telam
- 02 December 2013
Los campesinos también exigen acceso a la propiedad de la tierra, lo que implica agilizar las normas de adjudicación y “detener la política de extranjerización de tierras”.