Ethiopia OKs 361 Saudi investment projects
    Ethiopian ambassador Mohammad Kabeera said his country has approved more than 361 investment projects to Saudi Arabia mainly in the agricultural sector.
    • Arab News
    • 07 December 2013
    L’accaparement des terres au Sénégal
    Selon Mariam Sow, « L’accaparement des terres concerne 1/3 des surfaces cultivables du Sénégal ! » Emission sur RFI.
    • RFI
    • 07 December 2013
    Stolen land: Nigerian villagers want their land back from Wilmar
    Wilmar, the world's largest palm oil processor, is building a massive plantation on forest lands illegally gifted to Nigeria's former president, Olusegun Obasanjo. The local community wants these lands back.
    • GRAIN
    • 07 December 2013
    WA Government signs agreement with Chinese-owned Kimberley Agricultural Investment on Ord Irrigation Scheme
    Western Australia signs agreement with Chinese-owned Kimberley Agricultural Investment on Ord Irrigation Scheme
    • ABC
    • 06 December 2013
    On our land
    Film chronicles the experiences of communities in PNG--giving a voice to those who are losing their land and natural resources to illegal logging operations and palm oil companies.
    • Oakland Institute
    • 06 December 2013
    World's biggest palm oil company pledges to halt deforestation
    Wilmar says it will ensure that its own plantations and companies from which it sources only provide products that are “free from links to deforestation or abuse of human rights and local communities”.
    • businessGreen
    • 06 December 2013
    Farm-buyers face new rules
    Labour bill aims to make it more difficult for foreign investors to purchase rural land
    • NZ Herald
    • 06 December 2013
    Tanzania: Japan's Nitori to invest Sh900 billion in cotton farming
    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.
    • Tanzania Daily News
    • 06 December 2013
    Ethiopia's stolen land
    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.
    • Le Monde diplomatique
    • 05 December 2013
    Prosavana –Mudança de estratégia
    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
    • JA!
    • 05 December 2013
    Brazil’s development bank heads for Africa
    BNDES will open its first Africa office as it looks to finance the expansion of Brazilian companies across the continent
    • This is Africa
    • 05 December 2013
    Central Africa takes steps to improve agricultural investment
    Over sixty parliamentarians from Central Africa met in Malabo, the capital of Equatorial Guinea, to discuss how to promote sustainable agricultural investment.
    • IISD
    • 05 December 2013
    Brazilian indigenous leader murdered
    A Brazilian indigenous leader who spent decades campaigning for his tribe’s right to live on their ancestral land was murdered on Sunday night
    • World Bulletin
    • 04 December 2013
    Africa's vanishing forests
    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.
    • On Earth
    • 04 December 2013
    Enda Tiers Monde appelle à la promotion de ''l'agriculture paysanne''
    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.
    • APA News
    • 04 December 2013
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